Five-decade retrospectives and survivor collaborations anchor capital city gallery showcases.
Mark your calendars! Here are the must-see art shows for September.
1.Vadehra Art Gallery presents group show titled Women on the Edge of Time:
Curated by Linsey Young, the exhibition features the work of eight acclaimed South Asian artists, including Anju Dodiya, Arpita Singh, Ashfika Rahman, Gurminder Sikand, Jai Chuhan, Jasleen Kaur, Leela Mukherjee, Mumtaz Karimjee, and Sheba Chhachhi. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of programmes that extend its themes into conversation and public engagement.
Dates: August 21– September 18, 2026
Venue: D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi
2.LATITUDE 28 | Between Dust and Distant Skies, a solo exhibition by Sri Lankan multidisciplinary artist Pradeep Thalawatta:
Curated by Rahul Kumar, the exhibition reflects on how conflict, migration, childhood, and images of daily life circulating across media, gradually become so deeply embedded within personal memories, eventually playing out as emotional landscapes in the artist’s work.
Dates: August 21– September 19, 2026
Venue: LATITUDE 28, Defence Colony, New Delhi
3.Anant Art Gallery | Phantasms, a solo exhibition by Thamshangpha ‘Merci’ Maku:
Curated by Anna Sireiliu Charenamei and Sohorpem Kazingmei, with Shaleen Wadhwana as Curatorial Advisor, the exhibition explores themes of memory, identity, imagination, and lived experience through Maku’s contemporary practice.
Dates: September 10 – October 31, 2026
Venue: Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
4.Akar Prakar | Group show titled Becoming:
Marking the opening of Akar Prakar’s new gallery space in Defence Colony, designed by Ashish Karode and Design Atelier, Becoming is a group exhibition curated by Siddhi Shailendra. It brings together the work of C. Douglas, Debasish Mukherjee, Ganesh Haloi, Jayashree Chakravarty, Leang Seckon, and Manish Pushkale.
Dates: August 21– September 17, 2026
Venue: Akar Prakar, B-74, Second Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi
5.Art Alive Gallery | Group show titled A Moment in the Monumental:
Art Alive Gallery marks its 25th anniversary with a major group exhibition curated by Kishore Singh. Bringing together seminal works by 30 artists across generations and practices, the exhibition traces a century of Indian art while reflecting on a legacy that dates back over five millennia.
Dates: September 26 – October 6, 2026
Venue: Centre for Contemporary Art, Bikaner House, New Delhi
6.Nature Morte | Group show titled The Evolution of Soothsayer:
Marking Nature Morte’s 30th anniversary and its move to a new permanent home in Gulmohar Park, the exhibition brings together 35 artists across two parts, reflecting the gallery’s three-decade engagement with contemporary art. The artists include Abir Karmarkar, Alicja Kwade, Ayesha Singh, Basist Kumar, Bharti Kher, Dayanita Singh, Dhruvi Acharya, Manish Nai, Manisha Parekh, Mark Prime, Murari Jha, Pushpamala N., Remen Chopra van der Vaart, Sagarika Sundaram, Srishti Rana Menon, Thukral & Tagra, and Vandana Kothari.
Part One Dates: August 22 – October 10, 2026
Venue: Nature Morte, A9 Gulmohar Park, New Delhi
7.Blueprint12 x Cultivate Art | i am your neighbour, i am your lover, i am, a solo exhibition by Rewati Shahani:
Presented by Blueprint12 in collaboration with Cultivate Art and curated by Deeksha Nath, the exhibition brings together the drawings, paintings, printmaking, photography, sculptures, and performative gestural works of this London-based artist.
Dates: August 7 – September 12, 2026
Venue: Blueprint12, C-66, Anand Niketan, New Delhi – 110021
8.TKCF | Group show titled Paradise Promised:
The inaugural exhibition of The Knowledge Convergence Foundation (TKCF), founded by collector and art advisor Teesta Bhandare, brings together works emerging from the Foundation’s inaugural multidisciplinary and multi-generational residency in Salogra, Himachal Pradesh. Centred on the theme of Paradise Promised, the residency had artists and writers across generations and practices, who participated in thematic workshops and conversations with thinkers and cultural practitioners.
Dates: September 12 – 16, 2026
Venue: Bikaner House, between Pandara Road & Shahjahan Road, India Gate, New Delhi, Delhi 110003
9.Gallery Ragini | The Grammar of the Self, a retrospective of Kanchan Chander:
Curated by Kishore Singh, the exhibition includes drawings, prints, and mixedmedia works spanning over five decades, which traces the evolution of Chander’s practice through recurring ideas around observation, memory, identity, and the human experience.
Dates: September 12 – 18, 2026
Venue: LTC Gallery, Bikaner House, New Delhi
10.Kalakriti Art Gallery presents group show titled Standing on Sacred Ground:
The exhibition brings together artworks by emerging contemporary artists Bolgum Nagesh Goud, Bratin Khan, Dhruti Mahajan, Keerti Pooja, Mayadhara Sahu, R. Giridhara Gowd and Sachin Jaltare. They draw from the rich visual vocabulary of indigenous practices, traditional motifs and cultural memory to create their contemporary practices.
Dates: September 14-22, 2026
Venue: Bikaner House
11.Dhoomimal Art Centre presents Before You See the Scar, a solo show by Monica Dhaka
Made in collaboration with acid attack survivors from the Brave Soul Foundation, Delhi, this exhibition is about their survival, identity, dreams, and right to be seen fully as people, with names, voices, families, work, hope, and futures. All proceeds from the exhibition will go to the Brave Soul Foundation.
Dates: September 14-23, 2026,
Venue- Dhoomimal Art Centre, A8 Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001
12. Art Explore Presents: TAP AND TAPISH , a solo show by Vipul Kumar
Curated by Anita Dube, this exhibition focuses on Tap, , or sustained practice and Tapish which brings heat into the equation, the force of the kiln that transforms fragile clay into fired form. Kumar works from Bhainslana in Rajasthan, a village known for its black marble quarries. Far from the metropolitan centres of India’s art world, he has built a studio practice around the physical realities of making.
Dates:14th to 21st September 2026
Venue: CCA Building, Bikaner House, New Delhi.
13.GAP Contemporary presents group show titled The Still Life of Sentiments
Curated by Priyanshi S, this is the show marking the new avatar of Gallery Art Positive, which is being reborn as GAP Contemporary. The exhibition brings together contemporary art, furniture, objects, books and design within a deliberately domestic setting. Among the artists being shown are Bashobi Tiwari, Boito, Enii Living, Meghna Patpatia Singh, Poorvi Sultania, Pranshu Thakore, Protyush Paul, Suryan Saurabh, Urvi Sethna, and Vikalp Durga Mishra, among others. The design component includes studios such as Hatsu, Objectry, Phantom Hands, This and That, Turn Black Official, Umber Furniture, Vahe and Vakr Studio, alongside object and lighting practices including Fig Living, Kathakaar Studio, Dhruv Agarwwal, and Clay Ventures. The exhibition will also include a selection of books and other additions.
Dates: September 11 – October 10, 2026
Venue: GAP Contemporary, F-213B, Old M.B. Road, Lado Sarai, New Delhi – 110030
14.Gallerie Nvya presents What the Light Remembers, a solo exhibition by Riddhi Shah
Working across gouache, watercolour, gold pigment and walnut stain on Sanganeri and acid-free paper, Shah brings together the geometric precision of the jaali and the natural world, to explore the ephemerality of memory and inherited histories.
Exhibition Details:
Dates: September 25 – November 15, 2026
Venue: Gallerie Nvya, 101–103, Square One Designer Arcade, C-2, District Centre, Saket, New Delhi – 110017
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