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Dhruv Malhotra was born in 1985 to parents who are medical doctors, an oncologist and a microbiologist, and grew up in his grandparents' house in Jaipur, where they lived. After majoring in Economics from Mumbai University in 2006 and working a short spell in banking, he decided to pursue life as a photographer. His work has focused on urban areas, cities at night and has engaged with issues of progress, modernity and the otherworldly. Following his first solo exhibition in 2010 at PHOTOINK in New Delhi, at the Hyeres Photo Festival he was selected for a year long residency at the SVA in New York that was transformative to his practise. He returned to India in 2012 and continued making work and lived in Delhi till late 2015; moving back to Jaipur after 12 years of being away.
Malhotra’s major work in colour, the AFTER DARK TRILOGY: Noida Soliloquy, Sleepers & After Party has spanned almost a decade (2007 to 2015). The first chapter, Noida Soliloquy was exhibited at PHOTOINK, New Delhi in 2010 and most recently at the FOTOFEST International 2018 Biennial in Houston, USA. Photographs from his second series, Sleepers had a solo presentation at the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial, UK in the exhibition, New Ways of Looking, curated by Martin Parr. Photographs from Sleepers were also included in the exhibition, The Matter Within at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (2011) and a 3-person exhibition titled, Transitions: Urban Landscapes, curated by Deepak Ananth at The British School at Rome (2012). Sleepers was exhibited at PHOTOINK in 2013. Works from the first two series were shown at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai (2013) and were also included in the exhibition, City Dwellers – Contemporary Art from India at the Seattle Art Museum, USA (2014) and at the Off Festival Bratislava, Slovakia (2014) curated by Zuzana Lapitkova.
In 2015, After Party was exhibited at PHOTOINK. Malhotra’s work has been shown as part of the exhibitions Sensorium Edition{love} at the Sunaparanta Goa Center for the Arts, Goa 2015 and Cities and Memory at Photo Biennale Denmark, Brandt's Museum, Odense (2016) and Mutations: Indo-French image encounters, curated by Rahaab Allana & Francois Cheval, 24 Jor Bagh, New Delhi 2018. Works from the trilogy are a part of the collections of Pier 24, San Francisco USA; the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; the Collection of Sanjay Parthasarathy and Malini Balakrishnan, Seattle; and the Art Institute of Chicago, USA and have been published in the New York Times Magazine 2018, Smithsonian Magazine USA 2016, The Indian Quarterly 2015, Domus India 2013, Citysapes South Africa 2012, Internazionale Rome 2012, New Statesman UK 2011, De Standaard Belgium 2011, Motherland India 2011, Platform India 2010 and OjodePez Spain 2009 amongst others.
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