Must-see Art Exhibitions In Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad In July 2026

This July, as the monsoon settles in and outdoor plans get rained out, India's museums and galleries offer the better alternative: air-conditioned, unhurried, and increasingly worth the trip. From New Delhi to Mumbai, and outward to Patna, art galleries are staging shows that hold up long after the rain stops, tracing the country's modernist inheritance.

A number of these art shows are closing-soon retrospectives worth catching before the season turns like Tyeb Mehta's centenary survey at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. Others are just getting started- a remainder that monsoon in India isn't a dead season for art, just an indoor one.

So, don't wait out the rain this month, check out the handy guide to art exhibitions and shows across several Indian cities including Delhi, Patna, Hyderabad and Mumbai this July:

When: 3 July - 19 July 2026

Where: 47 A, Khotachiwadi,  Ambewadi, Girgaon, Mumbai

Across its six distinct rooms the curation will take you on an immersive journey that bridges the traditional and the contemporary, celebrating the sheer breadth of Indian art.

When: Until 18 August 2026

Where: Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad

In the Viewing Room, brings together a group of contemporary and emerging artists from India and abroad. Rather than enforcing a singular perspective, this diverse set of 15 artists allows organic connections to emerge within the space. The works, ranging in medium, geography, and generation, trace parallels between contemporary Indian and international practices.

When: 1st July – 21st July 2026

Where: Temporary Gallery, Bihar Museum, Patna

Set within the Bihar Museum, a site where the region’s deep historical inheritance meets contemporary cultural production, Vichitra offers a rich and layered exhibition that resists a singular narrative around labour, memory, ecology, migration, figuration, and material histories through varied artistic vocabularies.

Moreover, it marks and extends a long-standing cultural dialogue between Bengal and Bihar through a compelling presentation of painting, sculpture, photography, textile, and print. Featuring historically significant modernists such as Lalit Mohan Sen and Kartick Chandra Pyne alongside leading contemporary practitioners including Prasanta Sahu, Soma Das, Ujjal Dey, Pradip Das, Tapas Biswas, and Kushal Ray. Organised by Emami Art, Kolkata, the exhibition foregrounds plurality- of generations, mediums, material histories, and lived experience.

When: Until 25 July 2026

Where: LATITUDE 28, New Delhi

Featuring 16 artists from diverse geographical and cultural contexts, the exhibition examines migration through questions of memory, displacement, belonging, language, and identity.

When: 11 July - 31 August 2026

Where: Gallerie Nvya, Saket District Centre, New Delhi

A solo exhibition by emerging contemporary artist Rohit Suresh Varekar, the exhibition is sparked by the devastating floods that reshaped parts of the Konkan landscape in 2021 and reimagines doors, beams, and pillars recovered from collapsed mud homes as repositories of personal and collective memory through sculpture, carving, drawing, and assemblage

When: Until 31 July, 2026

Where: National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Fort, Mumbai

The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai, under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, presents Marathi Chitrapat: Stories and Stardom—an exhibition celebrating the extraordinary legacy of Marathi cinema. Conceptualised by IAS Nidhi Choudhari, Director, NGMA Mumbai, and curated by Neha Kamat of Kamat Foto Flash, the exhibition traces more than a century of Marathi cinema, from the pioneering vision of Dadasaheb Phalke and the Prabhat Film Company to contemporary Marathi filmmaking.

When: Until 5th July 2025

Where: Jio World Plaza, BKC, Mumbai

The exhibition by Atul Kasbekar in partnership with Epson features 56 large format black-and-white portraits of India's most celebrated character actors, including Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Pankaj Tripathi, Boman Irani, Arshad Warsi, Kay Kay Menon, Ratna Pathak Shah and Rasika Dugal. Captured without retouching, the portraits reveal an uncommon authenticity, celebrating the faces that have shaped Indian cinema through their craft rather than celebrity.

When: 3 July to 10 January, 2027

Where: NMACC, Mumbai

Second Nature is a global collaboration that brings together an international group of artists working at the forefront of art and technology and is organised by the co-founder and the curator of trailblazing experiential art venture Superblue. Spanning all four floors of the Art House, the exhibition includes large-scale installations by Random International, teamLab, A.A.Murakami, Simon Heijdens and Es Devlin, that dynamically respond to the site and visitor interaction, presented in India for the first time. It transforms digital systems into interactive environments that inspire physical participation over passive observation.