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| former_name = Gallery Chemould<br />
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| location = 3rd Floor, Queen's Mansion, Prescott Road, Fort, Mumbai<br />
| type = Contemporary Art Gallery<br />
| founder = Kekoo & Khorshed Gandhy<br />
| website = www.gallerychemould.com<br />
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'''Chemould Prescott Road''', founded (as Gallery Chemould), is an art gallery in India.<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
'''Chemould Prescott Road''', a commercial art gallery in India, was founded by [[Kekoo Gandhy]] and Khorshed Gandhy in 1963.<ref>Karin Zitzewitz [http://www.artindiamag.com/quarter_02_02_13/framing_gallery_of_heroes.html 'Framing a gallery of heroes'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119054414/http://www.artindiamag.com/quarter_02_02_13/framing_gallery_of_heroes.html |date=2013-01-19 }} ''Art India'', 2 Feb 2013.</ref> Based in [[Mumbai]] (Bombay), in 2007 the gallery moved from the first floor of the [[Jehangir Art Gallery]] to Prescott Road.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spotlight/Chemould-celebrates-fifty-years/articleshow/21877272.cms|title=Chemould celebrates fifty years | date=17 August 2013|newspaper=The Times of India| first=Debarati S | last=Sen | access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref><br />
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A film on the life of its founders [[Kekoo Gandhy]] and his wife Khorshed Gandhy, ''Kekee Manzil: The House of Art'', was made by Behroze Gandhy, their second daughter.<ref>{{Cite news|date=June 25, 2020|title=‘Kekee Manzil - The House of Art’ chronicles a micro-history of Mumbai anchored in a century-old family home|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/kekee-manzil-the-house-of-art-chronicles-a-micro-history-of-mumbai-anchored-in-a-century-old-family-home/article31917896.ece}}</ref><ref>https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/kekoo-gandhy-khorshed-indian-art-world-gallery-chemould-mf-husain-tyeb-mehta-sh-raza-6282986/</ref><ref>https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304167/</ref><ref>https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/kekee-manzil-the-house-of-art/cid/1786254</ref><ref>https://www.vervemagazine.in/people/meeting-the-gandhys-in-kekee-manzil-the-house-of-art</ref><br />
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==Artists==<br />
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Chemould has been instrumental in establishing the reputations of many now well-known Indian modern artists. [[MF Husain]], [[Tyeb Mehta]], and [[S. H. Raza|SH Raza]], who emerged on the first wave of India's modernist and contemporary art movements, first exhibited with Chemould. Under the directorship of their daughter Shireen Gandhy<ref>{{Cite web|work=Verve|date=June 17, 2014|title=Power Gallerist: Shireen Gandhy|url=https://www.vervemagazine.in/people/power-gallerist-shireen-gandhy}}</ref> since 1988, Chemould Prescott Road has expanded its roster of artists to represent those working in experimental work, and its exhibition program spans younger, mid-career, and senior artists. Chemould also hosted the first solo exhibition of the late [[Bhupen Khakhar]], [[Ram Kumar (artist)|Ram Kumar]], [[Nalini Malani]], [[Atul Dodiya]], Anju Dodiya, [[Jitish Kallat]], [[Reena Saini Kallat]], [[K. H. Ara|KH Ara]], Bal Chhabda, [[Krishen Khanna]], [[Jehangir Sabavala]], [[Vasudeo S. Gaitonde|Gaitonde]], [[K. K. Hebbar|KK Hebbar]], [[Vivan Sundaram]], and [[Jivya Soma Mashe]] all exhibited with Chemould.<ref name="blogs.guggenheim2">{{cite web|first=Nancy|last=Adajania|author-link=Nancy Adajania|date=28 January 2013|title=Beyond the Commodity Fetish: Art and the Public Sphere in India|url=http://blogs.guggenheim.org/map/beyond-the-commodity-fetish-art-and-the-public-sphere-in-india/|access-date=2014-05-24|publisher=Guggenheim, New York}}</ref> Targeting the young collector and the millennial, Shireen Gandhi conceptualized Modus Operandi<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ghose|first=Anindita|date=2018-07-14|title=An old Mumbai art gallery draws millennials|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/zijeZMvD4rHqAdH9418XEO/An-old-Mumbai-art-gallery-draws-millennials.html|access-date=2019-05-04|website=Mint|language=en}}</ref> in 2018.<br />
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Their current roster has 30 artists which also include artists like Aditi Singh, Anant Joshi, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Archana Hande, Bhuvanesh Gowda, Bijoy Jain, Desmond Lazaro, [[Dhruvi Acharya]], Gigi Scaria, Jitish Kallat, Lavanya Mani, Madhavi Subrahmanian, Meera Devidayal, Mehlli Gobhai, [[Mithu Sen]], [[N. S. Harsha|N S Harsha]], [[Nilima Sheikh]], [[Pushpamala N.|Pushpamala N]], Rashid Rana, [[Reena Saini Kallat|Reena Kallat]], Ritesh Meshram, Sheetal Gattani, Shakuntala Kulkarni, [[Shilpa Gupta]], [[L.N. Tallur|Tallur L N]], Tanuja Rane, Varunika Saraf, [[Vivan Sundaram]], and Yardena Kurulkar.<br />
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==Art Fairs & Art Festivals==<br />
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The gallery is known for its participation in [[Art Basel]], [[India Art Fair]], [[Kochi-Muziris Biennale|Kochi Muzris Biennale]], [[Dhaka Art Summit|Dhaka Art]] Summit amongst others.<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Official website|http://gallerychemould.com/}}<br />
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