Sunil Garg
Lives in Summit, NJ; works from his studio at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ
2025 Fellowship Award for Sculpture from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2023 Finalist Award for Sculpture from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2022 Showcase Artist at Art Fair 14C, Jersey City, NJ
Solo Exhibitions:
2023: “Cadence of Light”, Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, NJ
2020: The Gallery – B19 Visual Arts Building, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
2018: Affordable Art Fair, NYC (September 2018): Solo with Gallery Novado
2018: “Cause of Visible Things”, a mini-solo exhibition of immersive light installations, light sculpture and light images and paintings at Novado Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2018: Featured Artist at Newark Arts Gala event, April 2018 (commissioned)
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026: "Common Ground: NJ Artists Think Monumental", 42nd NJ Arts Annual hosted by Morris Museum (curator: Johannah Hutchinson - Publisher: Sculpture Magazine/ ED: International Sculpture Center)
2024 - 2025: “New Sculpture New Jersey”, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ (curator: Bryant Small)
2024: “Picturing Light”, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, NY (curator: Anne Finkelstein)
2024 - 2025: “Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art”, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY (curator: Bart Bland)
2024: “MYRIAD” at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ (curator: Bryant Small)
2019: “Between Wisdom and Madness”, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2019: Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (November): Exhibition of 9 light paintings
2017: GLEAM 2017: Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin
2017: “Wood Wide Web”: Reeves-Reed Arboretum, Summit, NJ
2016: “InFlux”: Gallery@14 Maple, Morristown, NJ (curator: Dr. Virginia Butera)
2016: “The Particle & The Wave”, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2016: “WAH: Light, Form and Symbol”, WAH Center, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2016: Clio Art Fair, Chelsea, NYC
2016: “The Cure for Anything”, Walsh Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2015: Call for Chelsea 2015, Galleria Ca’ d’Oro, Chelsea, NYC
2015: Two Untitled Immersive Installations, The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ
2015: NJ State Bar Foundation, New Brunswick, NJ
2015: Newark Open Doors/Open Studio, The Gateway Project, NJ
2015: Call for Bushwick 2015, Bushwick, NYC
Public Art Installations (outdoors and indoors):
2023 - Ongoing: Three large-scale lighted and kinetic sculptures, corner of Halsey and William Streets, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2023: “Sleep Fragment # 11 (Iris)”: Glass House at KuBe Art Center/Ethan Cohen Gallery
2023: “Spaceship”: a 5 x 5 x 7-foot installation at KuBe Art Center/ Ethan Cohen Galley, Beacon, NY (May 2023 – ongoing)
2022 - 23: “Autumn Leaves”: a large-scale installation in Canco Park, Jersey City, NJ
2022: “Spaceship”: a 5 x 5 x 7-foot at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City (October 2022)
2020-21: “Three to Get Ready”, Fresh Air Montclair: 8 x 12-foot installation
2019: “Change @ Deep Space”: 8x6x3 foot installation at Deep Space Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2019: LANDWORKS 2019: Long Beach Island Foundation, NJ - "ISIT/ITIS", a large scale (120 x 20 feet) light installation on a 20 acre tidally influenced salt march on Barnegat Bay, NJ
2018: “Water Drops”, Fairmount Park System, Philadelphia, PA (commissioned)
2018: “Growth # 3”, Fairmount Park System, Philadelphia, PA (commissioned)
2017: “Growth” & “Change”. Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison WI. Two (2) outdoor light installations along a 100-foot stream (commissioned)
2017: “WSSF”, Reeves-Reed Arboretum, Summit, NJ.
2016: “A Comforting Illusion of Order V”, 7 x 9 x 4-foot installation, Gallery@14 Maple
2014- 2015: “A Comforting Illusion of Order”, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2014: Sleep Fragments and Creation Myths: Grand Summit Hotel, Summit, NJ.
2013 – 2014: “Will They Also Soon Disappear?”, Sculpture Key West, Key West, Florida.
2013 – 2014: “Sleep Fragments 3, 4 & 5” and “Sleep Elements”, Sculpture Key West, Florida
Other Installations (solo and group):
2018: A mini-solo exhibition of immersive, programmed light installations, free-standing light sculptures and light images at Novado Gallery, Jersey City, NJ (April to June 2018)
2018: “Seated Figure”, “Collision”, and “Quest for Light”, Newark Arts, Newark, NJ
2016: “Sticks & Stones”, a 6 x 7 x variable height installation, 14 Maple St., Morristown, NJ
2016: “No One Leaves Home”. 10 x 8 x 12 feet. Clio Art Fair Chelsea, NY
2016: “She Comes in Colors”, a 4 x 4 x 4.5-foot, 5 programmed light elements installation, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2016: “Sleep Fragments No. 9, 10 & 11”. A 200 sq. foot light and wire mesh installation. WAH Center, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2016: “No One Leaves Home”. 10 x 8 x 12 feet. Clio Art Fair Chelsea, NY
2015: Untitled: Two Immersive Installations. 100 feet in length by 3 – 8 feet high. The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ
2015: “Into the Light”: Immersive light installation, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2014: “Syzygy” - projection piece Friend Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2014: Chromatic Shadows II: live projection Friend Center, Princeton University, Princeton
2015: Erasing Borders 2015: Flushing Town Hall, WAH Center, Hammond Museum
2014: Conception Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2014: Meeting Past 2014 at the Akins Museum, Pawling New York
2014: Erasing Borders 2014: Queens Museum, Crossing Art Gallery, Arthur M. Berger Gallery
2014: Creative Mischief - A Pop-Up Exhibition, National Academy Museum, NYC
2014: National Academy School & Museum, NYC
2013: “Predator?” Life-size wire-mesh shark installation in the 25-foot skylit rotunda, NJ State Bar Foundation, New Brunswick, NJ
2013: “Sleep Fragments 1 & 2” and “Sleep Elements”, Art Factory in Paterson, NJ
2013: Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ