 Most of what he calls “the information for my work” comes, he says, “from my day-to-day negotiation with this city.” The city provides the backdrop for his recordings of the unfolding, renting and unfurling of human life.Paper Moon (1995)

His first important solo, Paper Moon coincided with the shift between painting and sculpture that was taking place in Shetty's oeuvre.The exhibition that took place at Pundole Art Gallery and Framasji Cawasjee Hall, Mumbai and at Ravindra Bhavan, New Delhi, comprised largely fibreglass and wood sculptures of familiar objects which critic Ranjit Hoskote described as ‘highly stylised, phantasmagoric fairground images.’

Consanguinity (2003)

In 2003, the Bose Pacia Modern in New York opened the Habitat Visual Arts Center in New Delhi where Shetty exhibited his major solo Consanguinity.