Sangram Majumdar Bad Actors exhibition Mumbai

Sangram Majumdar’s “Bad Actors” ran at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke in Mumbai from March 17 to May 2, 2026, according to the gallery’s exhibition page. Time Out Mumbai included the show in its May 2026 events guide, describing it in its final week as Majumdar’s second solo exhibition at the gallery and pointing readers to the Ballard Estate venue. The exhibition centered on new paintings and works on paper by Majumdar, an artist born in Kolkata in 1976 who lives and works in Seattle, according to his website. The same biography identifies him as an associate professor in the School of Art + Art History + Design at the University of Washington. ### Where and when was “Bad Actors” on view? Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke listed “Bad Actors” at its Mumbai space at 101, 1st Floor, Commerce House, SS Ram Gulam Marg, Ballard Estate, Fort, Mumbai 400001. (galeriems.com) The gallery page gave the run as March 17 through May 2, 2026, and listed visiting hours from Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Time Out Mumbai’s May guide referred to the show during its final week, which aligns with the gallery’s published closing date of May 2. (sangrammajumdar.com) That listing described the exhibition as a current option for visitors looking for gallery shows in the city that month. ### What kind of work did Majumdar show? Time Out Mumbai described “Bad Actors” as featuring “works of color blocking, animated forms, and sketches,” a concise account that matches the gallery’s online viewing-room material. (galeriems.com) The viewing room says “Bad Actors 1,” the painting that gave the exhibition its title, includes “leering, demonic faces,” with some figures rendered in outline, some in blocks of color and some left only partly present. (timeout.com) The artist’s own website lists works from the exhibition including “The Informant,” “Bad Actors 1,” “Bad Actors 2,” “Teras,” “A Calculated Certainty,” “A State of Unrest,” “The Others,” and “A Developing Situation.” The same page gives dates of 2025 and 2026 for the works and identifies media including oil on canvas, oil on linen and oil on paper mounted on linen. ### Why was this show notable in Majumdar’s exhibition record? Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke and Time Out Mumbai both described “Bad Actors” as Majumdar’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. (timeout.com) Majumdar’s website separately lists the Mumbai gallery among his recent solo exhibition venues, alongside Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York and other institutions. The University of Washington’s School of Art + Art History + Design said in an April 9 post that Vogue India had featured the exhibition. (sangrammajumdar.com) That university post also repeated that the show would remain on view until May 2, 2026. ### What do available descriptions say about the paintings themselves? The gallery’s viewing-room text says some paintings can be taken in immediately, while others require viewers to move between finished passages and incomplete marks. (meer.com) In the cited example of “Bad Actors 1,” the image is built from faces that appear in different states of definition rather than as a single resolved scene. (art.washington.edu) Meer, citing the gallery, said the exhibition presented Majumdar’s second solo outing there and framed the paintings around that tension between direct legibility and fragmentary form. The available online material does not provide sales figures or attendance numbers. ### Where can readers still find details now that the show has closed? The gallery’s exhibition page and online viewing room remained accessible in May 2026 and continue to list installation images and selected works from “Bad Actors.” Majumdar’s website also keeps a dedicated exhibition entry with images and titles from the show. (galeriems-viewingroom.exhibit-e.art) Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke continues to list its Mumbai address at Commerce House in Ballard Estate and its New Delhi location on its website. (meer.com) For readers looking to trace the exhibition after its May 2 close, those gallery pages and the artist’s archive are the clearest published records. (galeriems.com)