Education and Residencies
2010 Upcoming Artist-in Residence, Watershed Center for Ceramics Arts, Maine, USA
2009 Artist-in Residence, Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry, India
2002 Charles Wallace Fellowship in London, UK with Kate Malone
1994 Assistant to William Daley, Haystack School of Crafts, Maine, USA
1993 Summer school with Val Cushing and Marilyn Lysohir, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, NY, USA.
1993 MFA, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA
1990 Assistant to Warren Mackenzie, Peters Valley, Layton, NJ. USA
1985 Golden Bridge Pottery with Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith, Pondicherry, India
Grants and Awards
2005 Honorable Mention, Montgomery Center for the Arts, Montgomery, NJ.
2003 Dissemination Grant, India Foundation for the arts, Bangalore, India
2002 Charles Wallace India Education Grant, British Council study grant.
2000 Arts Collaboration Grant, India foundation for the Arts, Bangalore, India.
2000 Studio Pottery Award, Cymroza Gallery, Mumbai, India.
1991-93 Meadows Graduate Council Grants, SMU, Dallas, TX
Margo Jones Award, SMU, Dallas, TX
1992 The Assemblage Show Award for excellence in Art, Dallas Visual Art center, Dallas, TX
Solo/two person Exhibitions
2010 Upcoming solo show at Lacoste Gallery, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
2010 Organic/Abstract solo show at Gallery Chemould at Prescott Road , Mumbai, India
2006 Madhvi Subrahmanian: Pods and Seeds, Anne Reid Gallery, Princeton, NJ. USA
2005 Distillations-Pam Farrell and Madhvi Subrahmanian Arts Council of Princeton, NJ
2003 Madhvi Subrahmanian: Ceramics 2003 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
2001 Madhvi Subrahmanian: New Works, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2000 The Pod and Other Containers, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India
1999 A Vessel and a Container Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1995 Mosaics Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, TX U.S.A
1995 East meets West, Carmichael Gallery, Museum of Art, Tyler, TX, U.S.A.
1993 Masters of Fine Arts show, Meadows museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX U.S.A.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
French and Singapore, New Generation Artists, Alliance Francaise de Singapour
Explorations in Terracotta, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2008
Woman on Woman: Lace, Fost Gallery, Singapore.
Fusion III, Artmosaic Gallery, Singapore.
28 International Competition for Ceràmica L'Alcora, Spain.
2007
RVCC Then and Now:Raritan valley Community College, NJ
Contemporary Indian ceramics, Lemongrasshopper gallery, Ahmedabad, India
New Jersey Annual Fine Arts Show, Noyes Art Museum, NJ
Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, California.
East meets West; Seoul, South Korea
2006
Keramik Ist: Fabrik Art, Kirchberg, Switzerland
Princeton Artist Alliance and Preservation; D and R Greenway, Princeton, NJ
In Diaspora: New Jersey artist of Indo-Pak heritage, Montgomery Center for the Arts, NJ
Contemporary Indo-American Art, Indian Consulate, New York, NY
2005
Family Matters, national juried show, Baltimore Clayworks, MD, USA
Ellarlie Open XXIII, Trenton Art Museum, Trenton, NJ, USA
2004
Ideas and Images, National Gallery Of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
Peace and Harmony, The Habitat Center, New Delhi, India.
2003
Rain, curated by Bina Ellias, International galerie magazine, Sakshi, Mumbai, India
Public art-contemporary ceramics in collaboration- temporary interactive installation on the pavement outside the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai.
2002
Harmony, Arts trust exhibition, Nehru center, Mumbai, India
2001
Water Show, Habitat Center, New Delhi
Shared Memories, The Art Club, Olive, Mumbai, India
2000
The Sixth Taiwan Golden Ceramic Awards Show, Taipei, Taiwan
Mumbai Potter’s Tea Party, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
Studio Pottery, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Richard’s Feast, Palmer Lake, Colorado, USA
1996
Sehweisen, S.E. Gallery, Darmstadt, Germany
1994
Holiday Showcase, at Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Dinner Works, Louisville Art Association, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Scissor, Paper, Rock- Kay Rosen, Helen Altman and Madhvi Subrahmanian, Barry
Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
1993
Alumni Art Exhibit, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ, U.S.A.
New Ceramics, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
8 Differing Opinions, Fort Burgwin Research Center, Taos, NM, U.S.A.
The Assemblage Excellence in Art, D’art Visual Art Center, Dallas, U.S.A.
The 15*15*15 Compact competition, LSU, Baton Rouge.
Selected essays and book publications
Adajania Nancy: Flesh Made Clay. Essay for Exhibition “Madhvi Subrahmanian: New Works”, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2001.
Sumi von Dassow, Barrel, Pit, and Saggar Firing: A Collection of Articles from Ceramics Monthly Published 2001, American Ceramic Society
Jay, Sian, E. Woman on Woman: Lace. Essay for Exhibition “Woman on Woman Lace”, FOST Gallery, Singapore, 2008
Perrynan Jane: Smoke Firing.: Contemporary Artists and Approaches. Published by Published 2008 A&C Black,University of Pennsylvania
Cooper Emmanuel: Contemporary Ceramics. Published by Thames and Hudson, 2009