India, Dec. 21 -- Choosing an art gallery's location can be critical to its success. Unlike many industries, for galleries there is an implicit imperative to cluster together. In Mumbai, the gallery scene first centred itself around Kala Ghoda. In the immediate aftermath of Indian Independence, the Artists' Centre and Chetana were home to exhibitions by a number of artists associated with the famed Progressive Artists' Group. By the 1950s, these spaces were supplemented by the Jehangir Art Gallery and the Taj Hotel's in-house gallery.

It was during the 1960s that the first commercial art galleries begun to flourish. By the time Chatterjee & Lal began to exhibit in the early 2000s, the art scene had moved out of Kala Ghoda and gravitated ...