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Curators Talk: on Sunil Gupta

POSTED: 05 November 2020

Curators Mark Sealy and Karen McQuaid discuss the artist's work and broad career, watch the full video below.





On 22 Oct, Autograph's Director Mark Sealy - who has curated the major exhibition Sunil Gupta: From Here to Eternity. A Retrospective - was in conversation with Karen McQuaid, Senior Curator at The Photographers' Gallery. They discussed the themes in Gupta's art and broad career, and how his work has been inspirational to generations of photographic activists and LGBTQ+ rights campaigners. Scroll down to watch the event.

Exhibition in collaboration with

From Here to Eternity: Sunil Gupta. A Retrospective is co-organised by The Photographer's Gallery and the Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto, Canada), in collaboration with Autograph.

exhibition supported by


Exhibition programme supported by the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation.

Banner image: Sunil Gupta, India Gate [detail], 1987. From the series Exiles. Courtesy the artist and Hales Gallery, Stephen Bulger Gallery and Vadehra Art Gallery. © Sunil Gupta

Discover more: 1) Sunil Gupta: From Here to Eternity, published by Autograph. 2) Sunil Gupta, Untitled #05 [detail] from the series The New Pre-Raphaelites, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Hales Gallery, Stephen Bulger Gallery and Vadehra Art Gallery. © Sunil Gupta. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2021. 3) Sunil Gupta, from the series Christopher Street. Courtesy the artist and Hales Gallery, Stephen Bulger Gallery and Vadehra Art Gallery.