Wednesday - September 09, 2026
ART MUMBAI Writes
From street art and textile embroidery, to legendary Indian modernists, September in Mumbai is abuzz with art. ART MUMBAI's exhibitors host some of the most interesting and diverse art exhibitions in the city, and our guide brings to you the best of Mumbai's art galleries this month.
A Lyrical Journey traces Shah's abstract compositions, through the rhythmic interplay of colour, form, and gesture that has defined his practice over the decades.
Vinod Shah
Akara Modern
August 13 – September 19
Vyom uses materials that will rust, fade or fall away with time to create works that challenge the idea of perceiving and being perceived as a static, singular being.
Vyom
Art and Charlie
August 22 – September 20
Yusuf's paintings hover between the real and the imagined, capturing liminal spaces, suspended between memory and place.
Yusuf
Tao Art Gallery
August 20 – September 25
An exploration of female agency and pleasure, Dipali Gupta examines the social, political and historical underpinnings that influence intimacy, desire and domesticity in of pillow poems and delayed dawns.
Dipali Gupta
Fulcrum
August 13 – September 26
Drawing on the aesthetics of street posters and urban ephemera, Guesswho's solo debut reimagines pop and folk iconography for the gallery wall.
Guesswho
Muziris Contemporary
August 23 – September 30
Exhibiting over 300 works from Indian modernist icons like Amrita Sher-Gil and M F Husain, The Modern Indian Imagination: Art and the Reinvention of Modern India stands as a testament to one of the most important periods in Indian art history.
Various Artists
Lakeeren Contemporary
Until September 30
Pallavi Singh plays upon preconceived notions of language and gender to create works that question the ways in which gender binaries are socially understood.
Pallavi Singh
Sakshi Gallery
September 4 – October 1
A three-artist conversation across mediums and generations that present abstract interpretations of our quiet, contemplative modes of visual storytelling.
Neena Singh, Balasaheb Abhang & Pandurang Tathe
Art & Soul
September 10 – October 1
Ankush Safaya explores both history and our present as a layered, dynamic understanding, rather than a concrete, absolute truth.
Ankush Safaya
Sakshi Gallery
September 4 – October 1
This exhibition presents performance residues, as a restaging of Chopra's performance persona from the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Nikhil Chopra
Chatterjee & Lal
September 5 – October 3
Creating a world that blends nature and folkloric stories, Priyanka Aelay draws on both personal and collective experiences of labour, land and the natural world.
Priyanka Aelay
KYNKYNY
September 9 – October 1
The structure of the gallery itself becomes a fantastical and storybook-esque landscape, where botanical flora and fauna become larger than life, in a realm of fantasy, abundance, and fertility.
Vinita Mungi and Hasmukh Makwana
Chemould CoLab
September 10 – October 10
Jeram Patel's radical blowtorch-on-wood works, in which char, form, and void collide to challenge conventional ideas of drawing and material.
Jeram Patel
Subcontinent
September 10 – October 10
Sheetal Gattani's colour-field-esque works become retreats within themselves, in explorations of colour, texture and material.
Sheetal Gattani
Chemould Prescott Road
September 10 – October 10
Gallery becomes garden with a selection of artworks that explore the breadth of interactions between humanity, nature and time.
Various Artists
Rukshaan Art
August 13 – October 11
Arik Levy's rock sculptures balance the organic with inorganic, and materiality with weight to create both stillness and dynamism within the same structure, and exhibitions.
Arik Levy
Akara Contemporary
September 10 – October 17
Chanakya School explores the idea of belonging as a shifting identity that negotiates with history, nature, material and memory.
Chanakya School
Experimenter
September 10 – October 17
Jake Grewal's solitary figures navigate hazy landscapes in search of and belonging, traversing liminality and longing in the process.
Jake Grewal
Jhaveri Contemporary
September 10 – October 17
Parag Tandel presents an archive of the Koli fishing community, using sediment, salt, and marine ecology to talk about displacement and ecological memory.
Parag Tandel
TARQ
September 10 – October 17
Chroma takes center stage with Gabriel Mills' colour-drenched, dreamlike paintings.
Gabriel Mills
Galerie ISA
September 10 – October 22
A collective meditation on land, agrarian memory, and ecological continuity, grounded in materials drawn directly from the earth.
Lakshmi Nivas Collective
Gallery Maskara
September 10 – October 24
Ragini Bhow uses destruction as a process of creation, depicting the microbial right alongside the celestial, juxtaposing scale within our environment.
Ragini Bhow
Nature Morte
September 10 – October 25
Nemai Ghosh's intimate colour portraits of Satyajit Ray capture the artist's presence and process, as he created his groundbreaking films.
Nemai Ghosh
DAG
September 10 – October 31
