Mithu Sen in New Delhi

NEW DELHI—Mithu Sen, a rising star on the Indian art scene who lives and works in New Delhi, is known for her mixed-media works that play on sexuality, gender, and societal roles, often fusing human faces and figures with animals and plants. (Click on photo gallery at left to see more of her work.)

Sen is showing a collection of new paintings, photographs, and sculptures in the second installment of her two-part solo exhibition, “Half Full,” at New Delhi’s Nature Morte gallery through November 17. ARTINFO asked her to recommend other shows in New Delhi.

1. Vanishing Points: Contemporary Japanese Art at the National Gallery of Modern Art, through November 11
“[Among the artists included in this group show], one whose work I really like is Saburo Muraoka, who examines sensuality. Muraoka strives to encompass invisible energies, so heat and even oxygen are used as materials in his art, and his choice of materials from iron to others essential to life allows for ceaseless interpretations. Existence independent of death and the experiential is visible in his Standing Bed and Oxygen, both the work of a true master of the experimental.”

2. Israel–Birth of a Nation at Lalit Kala Academy, through November 3
“This show [celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel and 15 years of Indo-Israel diplomatic relations] features 120 photographs from Israeli photojournalists David Rubinger and Paul Goldman. It is historically embedded with great visual substance and touching texts.”

3. Ranjani Shetter: Epiphanies at Talwar Gallery, through January 31, 2008
“I love Shetter’s installation using the discarded remains of car bodies.”

4. Kartik Chandra Pyne at Art Konsult, through November 25
“I am drawn to the spontaneous fluidity of Pyne’s watercolors on rice papers and the use of negative space as a meaningful physical and mental construction.”

5. Agony and Ecstasy: Bronzes by Somnath Hore at Gallery Espace, through November 16
“This artist’s sculptures modeled in wax are infused with a sense of doubt and of melting into eternity.”