Sujay Saple (b.1986) is an interdisciplinary artist from Mumbai, India. His practice lies at the intersection of performance and installation. His approach to art-making is rooted in spatial and theamtic propositions of intimacy – be it through physical action, content, space, dialogue or transaction. His work has morphed across performative installations, visual theatre, contemporary dance, interactive choreography, protest parades, light sculptures, immersive concerts and zoom films – each an amalgam of the visual and the physical. He has been an independent designer, director, performer, teacher and facilitator, working professionally in the arts field since 2002. He has been involved in more than 50 collaborative projects, working with artists such as Bijayini Satpathy, Maya Krishna Rao, Atul Kumar, Rajat Kapoor, Rehaan Engineer, Jyoti Dogra, Moya Michael (Brussels), and Mitsuaki Matsumoto (Japan) among others.

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Sujay is the director of Shapeshift – a project-based experimental group he set up in Mumbai in 2012 to produce and promote his artistic work. With Shapeshift, he has created several original works that have performed at various festivals and prestigious venues around India and received rave reviews. Through Shapeshift, Sujay’s focus has been to galvanize, within the existing cultural bouquet, a vibrant supportive space for experimental interdisciplinary performance practices, communities and venues in India. Additionally, under his public online research project ‘ALT+space’ from 2014-16, he researched and shared information on over 40 alternative spaces for performance across India. From 2016-17, he was a partner and co-curator at an alternative cultural venue in Mumbai called The Mumbai Assembly. He was awarded the 2012-13 Ministry of Culture-Government of India research fellowship. He also received the Art Think South Asia (ATSA) fellowship in 2016. He won the Best Lighting Designer Award in 2007 at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards.