Born in 1983, Bangalore, India - died 30 December 2019, Warsaw, Poland.

Aditya Mandayam alias Aditya Zalewski-Mandayam alias Popobobo Oddodood alias Ciscaucasus Xabarnama alias Genitalman alias Brud.
In 2014 the artists Aditya Mandayam & Ada Pola changed their solo practices into a metamorphosis of the Indo-Polish art-parasite Brud. 
Brud was based in a slaughterhouse in the city center of Warsaw, Poland.





Residencies 
2016 - 2017	RIAT, Vienna, Austria
2014 - 2015	Rupert / Centre for Art and Education, Vilnius, Latvia
2014		Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
2014		Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
2011 - 2013	Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2011		Kiosko, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia	
2010		Fabrica, Italy
2008 - 2009	IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan
2007		Max Planck Institute for Linguistic Anthropology, Jakarta, Indonesia	
2006 - 2007	Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
			Stanford University - on indefinite leave


Awards
2016		Live Works Performance Art Award (Finalist)
2015		VISIO Next Generation Moving Images Acquisition Prize (Finalist)
2013		Absolut Art Award (Nominated)
2010		Prix Levallois (Special Mention)


Solo exhibitions
2018		Love Story, Brud / Aditya Mandayam & Emilia Zalwska, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2018		The Donut of Confusion, Brud / Aditya Mandayam & Emilia Zalwska, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany, cat.

2017		Thingamajig, Brud / Aditya Mandayam & Emilia Zalwska, Centre for Contemporary Art Futura, Prague, Czech Republic

2015		Poland International, NN Contemporary, Northampton, England, participation as artist's duo Brud

2014		Sukuranburu Kousaten by Indigenous Genitalman, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam

2013		Domake - makedo, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2013		Zoon in a Zoot-Suit*, kim? Riga, Latvia
2013		Kim? / Contemporary Art Space, Riga, Letvia 
2013		Iliulu Uliilu, Rijksakademie Open, Amsterdam


Group exhibitions
2018		School of Pain, Art in General, New York, Brooklyn, USA, curator Michal Novotný

2017		The Unique versus Series versus the Multiple, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2017		Plato / Office for Art, Ostrava, Czech Republic, curator Michal Novotný

2015		Leize Jenius, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 
2015		XII Baltic Triennial, CAC / Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015		Last day at Rivoli, Delire Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015		Poland International, NN Contemporary Art, Northhampton, England

2014		The 3rd Biennial Land Art Mongolia 360°, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia  
2014		Delire Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, with Marcel Broodthaers, Nico Dockx & Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pat McCarthy, Gianni Motti and Roman Opalka  
2014		The Pink Spy, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium, curator Narcisse Tordoir
2014		Aditya Mandayam, Occii, Amsterdam
2014		Amsterdam Drawing 2014 / Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam

2013		The Pink Spy*, MHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2013		Lost and Found, De Waag, Amsterdam
2013		Iliulu Uliilu, Rijksakademie Open, Amsterdam, Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, artist's publication in envelope
2013		Rewire, The Hague, Netherlands
2013		Legless Midriff in Topless Bar, Museumnacht, Amsterdam
2013		Makedo Domake, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2013		Fusiform Gyrus, Lisson Gallery, London, England, curator Raimundas Malašaukas
2013		Dread Fear in the Age of Technological Acceleration, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands, curator Juha van 't Zelfde
2013		Lizzard Lounge, National Gallery of Art / foyer; Harare International Festival of the Arts, Harare, Zimbabwe
2013		De Service Garage, Amsterdam

2012		Rijksakademie Open, Amsterdam
2012		Edward Brought Home A Good Ford Car, Russian Tea Room, Paris, France
2012		Le songe, la raison et les monstres, Galerie Paul Frèches, Paris, France

2011		Piksel, Bergen, Norway
2011		Electropixel, Nantes, France
2011		Principio Potosi, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia
2011		Alla Utilizan Quirquiña, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bolivia
2011		Anim/a/l/e, La Manzana, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

2010		Photo-Levallois, Paris, France
2010		Make Art, Poitiers, France
2010		Szendvics, Begec Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
2010		@party, Harvard, MA, USA
2010		Il Lampeggiatore, Spazio XYZ, Treviso, Italy
2010		Fatto Foto, Fondazione Buziol, Venice, Italy

2007		Fotokopisusu, PKBB, Jakarta, Indonesia
2007		Fotobiscotti, Yoshida Haus, Tokyo, Japan

2006		Phantom of the Crothera, Stanford, California, USA


Publications
2018		The Ooze, Roma Publications, Amsterdam
2018		Shocking Nonsense, Gruz Publications
2018		The Politics of Periphony, Sounds in Space, University of Derby, Derby, UK
2018		Sic Magazine #3
2017		Flusser Studies
2013		CUT Magazine #8
2013		CUT Magazine #9


Interview
2019		Blok Magazine, interviewers: Romuald Demidenko and Virginija Januškevičiūtė, 10 October 


Performances and radio boadcastings
2013		De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
2013		Yayapiti Papaya: 1st set of performances, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2013		Yayapiti Papaya: 2nd set of performances, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2018		Zenzizenzizenzik, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, performance on 7 October
2018		Radio JUJU, Aditya Mandayam / UMMO alias BRUD, with Juan-Pablo Villegas Delgado, 21 November
2019		Radio JUJU #1: Allegro, Andrea Liu & Ummo, RIB, Rotterdam, 1 February


Collections
Museo Nacional de Arte, Bolivia
ISelf Collection, Maria and Malek Sukkar
Fiorucci Art Trust, London
MuHKA, Antwerp






Selected exhibitions, performances and talks
Zebra, La Kaje, New York
ISelf: Self-Portrait as a Billy-Goat, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Shocking Nonsense, Zachęta, National Gallery, Warsaw
Group Theory, Centrale Fies, Italy
Making Use, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
A Million Lines, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland 2018
Terra Interpreta, WIELS, Brussels
Principio Potosi, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia
Alla Utilizan Quirquiña, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bolivia
Adobedo, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town
Legless Midriff in Topless Bar, Museumnacht, Amsterdam
Lizzard Lounge, National Gallery of Art, Zimbabwe
Sousveillance, FLAT, Amsterdam
Poland International, NN Contemporary, Northampton
Leise Jenius, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin