10 new art shows in India we’re excited about this September

200 years ago, French inventor Nicéphore Niépce created the world’s first photographic image. Since then, the medium of photography has captured for posterity culture, histories, socio-political events, personal lives and changing worlds, and continues to impact the globe in various ways. Paying tribute to the craft of analogue photography in India, Touching Light, curated by Aditya Arya, brings together rare historical photographs alongside works by 28 contemporary Indian photographers, including Serena Chopra, Rohit Chawla, Pradeep Dasgupta, Prashant Panjiar and Ram Rahman, among others. Including archival treasures from the Bourne & Shepherd Studio as well as analogue silver prints, chemigrams and diapositives, this journey into India’s history of photography as an art form is an unmissable exhibit for fans of the craft and aspiring photographers alike.

On view at Museo Camera, Centre for the Photographic Arts, Shri Ganesh Mandir Marg, Sector 28, DLF Phase IV, Gurugram until 29^th September 2025

Salon: The India Way at Nature Morte, Mumbai

‘Untitled’ by Manjit Bawa (2000)

Galleries across the country are constantly trying to reinvent the wheel and find new ways of preserving and showcasing art. Nature Morte’s new Salon series is dedicated to presenting the best of international and Indian modern art for the collector as well as bridging the gap between the two. The first of this series, curated by Poonji Nath, reimagines art histories through a global lens. This exhibition brings together, on one common platform, the works of FN Souza, Zarina Hashmi and RH Raza, alongside creations by Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, challenging Eurocentric focuses of Modernism in art by displaying both Indian and international names on the same white walls. Conceived by gallerist Devashi Jain, the series promises accessibility to all within the art ecosystem.