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1. Abstract Works Sachin Tekade Title:Spiral 1 Medium: Fabriano 300 GSM Paper Size: 24" x 36" Year: 2015
Title:Spiral 2 Medium: Fabriano 300 GSM Paper Size: 24" x36" Year:2015
SACHIN TEKADE is an Indian artist based in Pune, India. He has experimented extensively with the textural qualities of paper. He works in a minimalist manner, exploring the inherently pristine qualities of a tactile medium, to lend his unique idiom a wholly poetic, three-dimensional, and occasionally sculptural, edge. His works are devoid of colour. The whiteness of paper is emblematic of purity and evolution. He has held two solo exhibitions in Mumbai: Seismic in 2012, and The Poetics of Space in 2014. A third new solo will open in New Delhi in October 2015. His works feature in several prominent art collections. He has exhibited online at VIP Art Fair, in London at START Art Fair/Saatchi Gallery, as well as at India Art Fair, New Delhi besides group participations.
Select Collections JSW Foundation, Mumbai, India; Hotel Courtyard Marriot, Pune, India; Pinakin Patel & Associates, Mumbai, India and ESSAR STEEL. Private collections of Sangita Jindal,Anuradha Mahindra, Nirav Modi, Ayesha Thapar, Adani Group, Swapan Seth, Jayshree Bharatiya, Radhika Bharatram, Priyanjali Mariwala among others.
Biennale Invited to Florence Biennale 2015
Professional Training 2006 Bachelor’s degree (BFA), with Honors, from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, Gujarat 2000 Baba Saheb Dhone Chitrakala Mahavidyalaya, Art Teacher’s Diploma, Akola, Maharashtra
Solo Exhibitions 2014 THE LOFT at Lower Parel –The Poetics of Space, Mumbai, India 2012 THE LOFT at Lower Parel, Seismic – Haikus in paper, Mumbai, India
Group Exhibitions 2014 Noir/Blanc, THE LOFT at Lower Parel, Mumbai, India 2013 Palette – 2013, EdelGive Foundation – Charity event 2010 Jehangir Art Gallery, Art society of India, Mumbai, India 2009 The Strand Art Room, Absolutely Fabulous, Mumbai, India The Strand Art Room, The September Surprise, Mumbai, India
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Sheetal Gattani Title: Untitled Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24” x 24”
SHEETAL GATTANI Education • Post Graduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics, Mumbai • 1993 Master of Fine Arts (Painting), Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai Joint Exhibitions • 1990 Diploma in Art Education, Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai • 2007 ‘Reduced to Essentials – I’, with Zarina Hashmi at • 1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Sir J. J School of Art, Mumbai Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai Selected Solo Exhibitions • 2006 With Pandit Khairnar at National Centre for • 2009 Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai • 2008 Gallery Sumukha, Chennai • 2006 With S Harshavardhana at Gallery Mueller and • 2007 ‘Samasthiti’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi Plate, Munich • 2007 ‘Personal Soliloquy’, Bodhi Art, Singapore • 2005 ‘Rays of Silence’ with Ceramic artist Jackline, • 2006 Gallerie 88, Kolkata Gallery Art and Soul, Mumbai • 2005 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai • 2000 'Festival of Contemporary Art’, With V. K. • 2004 Apparao Gallery, Chennai Wankhede Gallery 7, Mumbai • 2001 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai • 1999 'Festival of Contemporary Art’, With Sohan Qadri, • 1998 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai Gallery 7, Mumbai Selected Group Exhibitions • 2012 'Aviraam: Celebrating the Pioneer Spirit- SH Raza at 90', presented by The Raza Foundation at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi • 2011 'Abstract Articulations', Gallery Espace, New Delhi • 2011 'At Walden Pond', Gallery Beyond, Mumbai • 2011 'Morning at the Window', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai • 2011 'Black and White in the Horizon', Gallery Beyond, Mumbai • 2010 'A. SYCO', The Viewing Room, Mumbai • 2009-10 'On Canvas -1', Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) Mumbai • 2003 ‘Solitude’ organized by Apparao Gallery at Artist Centre, Mumbai • 2002 ‘Shakti’, Women Artists’ Show, Haceinda Gallery, Mumbai • 2001 ‘Never too young’, Jamaat Art Gallery, Mumbai • 2000 ‘Anonymously Yours’, organized by Lakeeren Gallery at the British Council, Mumbai • 2000 ‘Ideas and Images ’II , Artist’s Choice section – selected by S. H. Raza, National Gallery of
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Ajay Choudhary Title: Untitled Medium: Charcoal on paper Size: 24"x 24" Year: 2008
AJAY CHOUDHARY Artist Statement My paintings are essentially a form of rebellion. The key idea behind my paintings is to use abstraction as a means to comment on reality by a process embodying child like freedom and spontaneity to break the conventional inhibitions of a trained mind to project an unchartered abstract landscape of the abstruse ‘ A Stroke with Square’ a 22 mints documentary made on abstract Paintings of Ajay Choudhary. This film was shown at Morocco film festivals , Kerala Film Festival, Calcutta Film Festival etc • A sound Installation was made by a Bollywood Music Director inspired by works of Ajay Choudhary Life Members • Bombay Art Society • Art Society of India Collections Leading collection globally both in private and corporate ownership Solo Exhibitions • 2012 , SOLO Show at Sarjan Art Gallery , Baroda • 2011 ‘Still Centre’ solo show at Amdabad Ni Gufa , Ahmedabad , India • 2008 ‘Towards infinity’ Open Studio and curated Solo show at The Loft at Mumbai, INDIA • 2008 Marvel Art Gallery , Ahmedabad , INDIA • 2007 Amdavad Ni Gufa , Ahmedabad, INDIA Catalogue Essays • 2007 ‘Between Line and Color’, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda, INDIA 2012 Catalouge essay by Prof Deepak Kannal , Baroda • 2005 Marvel Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, INDIA 2009 Erik Bluhm , CA , USA , Registrar at Peter Norton • 2005 Open Palm Gallery, New Delhi, INDIA Family Collection , NEWYORK • 2003 ‘Impressionist and Abstract’, Archer Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, INDIA 2007 Catalogue Essay by Erik Bluhm , CA, USA , • 1995,94,93,92 Hauz Khas, New Delhi, INDIA Registrar at Peter Norton Family Collection , Selected Group Exhibitions NEWYORK 2015 . STAINLESS STEEL ART show at Gandhi nagar Catalogue essay by Leela Mayor , Baroda , INDIA .2014 ‘SENSES’ Group show at VINCENT art Gallery, Ahmedabad Catalogue essay by Esther David , Ahmedabad , INDIA ‘NOIR/BLANC’ Group Show at The Loft at Lower Parel Mumbai Catalogue essay by Sandhya Bordewekar , critique at ART 2013 ‘RECYCLED/REUSED’ OBJECTS , group show at MSU , BARODA INDIA Mag., INDIA . 2012 'UNTITLED' an art project put up at INDIA ART FAIR 2013 2006 Catalogue essay by Bansi Dalal , Ahmedabad , • 2009 ‘1x1 India ‘ Group Show at Taj Mahal Hotel , Mumbai INDIA • 0 2007 ‘ The Marvelous Show’, organized at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2005 Catalogue essay ‘ Circling the Square’ by Anupa • 2007 ‘Mridgandha’, Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S University, Baroda Mehta • 2005 Marvel Art Gallery, Ahmedabad • 2004 Marvel Art Gallery, Ahmedabad SLSV Media. Research. Consultancy Sound & Light Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. www.soundnlight.in A global media resource, Research, Rating & Consultancy Network (focused on Indian Social Sector)
SHARMISTHA RAY
Title: La Mer Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 36” x 60” Year: 2014
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING M.S. Art History / M.F.A. Painting, Pratt Institute, New York, 2001-2005 AWARDS B.A., Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1997-2001 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Visual Arts, Nominee, Umbria, SOLO EXHIBITIONS Italy, 2014 2014: Sweet Surrender: Studies in Abstraction, Galerie Steph, Singapore L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Awards, Nominee, Artist of 2013: Reflections + Transformations, Aicon Gallery, New York the Year, 2013 2012: hidden geographies, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India Montblanc Young Artist World Patronage Project, 2012 2004: Crossroads, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Pratt Institute, New York TED Fellowship, TED Conferences, Mysore, India, 2009 1998: Q Series, Williams College, Williamstown, USA Joan Mitchell M.F.A. Grant, USA, 2004 GROUP EXHIBITIONS Berkshire Artisans Association Fellowship, Pittsfield, USA, 2015: Sparsh/Touch, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2015, Mumbai, India 2000 2015: Reviving the Retinal, Gallery OED, Curated by Kathleen Wyma, Kochi, Class 1960 Scholars in Art, Williams College, USA, 2000 India BiGLaTA Fellowship, Williams College, USA, 1998 2015: India Art Fair, 7th Edition, New Delhi, India 2014: Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hong Kong 2014: Noir/Blanc, The Loft at Lower Parel, Mumbai, India 2013: Vikhroli Skins, an initiative by Godrej India Culture Lab, Mumbai 2013: Touched by Bhupen, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India 2013: OUT/OFF: Out of the gallery and off the walls, curated by Chameleon Art Projects,Mumbai 2013: RESIST, Engendered Gallery, travelling exhibition Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai 2013: India Art Fair, 5th Edition, New Delhi, India 2012: Open Studios, Space 118, Mumbai, India 2012: Museum of Memories, site-specific installation, Godrej India Culture Lab, Mumbai 2012: Mumbai Galleries Weekend, sponsored by Citibank, Taj Land’s End, Mumbai 2012: Can You See Me?, Engendered Gallery, New Delhi, India 2010: Hope for Haiti-India Cares, Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, India 2007: In-si-der, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India 2006: Joan Mitchell M.F.A. Grant Recipients, CUE Art Foundation, New York 2004: Territories, Aicon Gallery, Organized by the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, New York 2004: 2004 CAC Juried Exhibition, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams 2004: Explorations/Innovations, Kingsborough Community College, New York 2004: 2004 Annual Pratt MFA Exhibition, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York 2004: Grand Group Show, Danny Simmons Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004: Drawing Show, Parsons Institute, New York 2004: MFAs Colliding, New York University, New York 2002: Extreme Existence, Schafler Gallery, New York 2002: 9/11: Artists Respond, Schafler Gallery, New York 2000: B.A. Thesis Exhibition, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown 2000: Berkshire Artisans Association Juried Show, Lichtenstein Art Center, Pittsfield, USA SLSV Media. Research. Consultancy Sound & Light Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. www.soundnlight.in A global media resource, Research, Rating & Consultancy Network (focused on Indian Social Sector)
2. Art by Masters Prabhakar Barwe Title: Red Apple Medium: Ink & Dry Pastel on paper Size: 8'' X11'' Year: 1989 Signed by the artist on the front side in Marathi Certificate by his daughter Sonali Barwe
PRABHAKAR BADWE BIOGRAPHY A symbolist abstractionist, Barwe was born in Nagoan, Maharashtra in 1936. Born into a family closely associated with the arts, his granduncle, V. P. Karmarkar was a well-known sculptor and his father was an artist working in Bombay`s film studios. He graduated from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1959. It was during his stay in Varanasi, the holy city of India from 1961 to 1965 that he came into contact with the canon of Tantra (mysticism) that influenced his work during that period. His work had a steady evolution that allows one to trace the numerous influences on it. During his days as a student he was deeply influenced by Paul Klee. It was during that time that he was also involved along with other leading painters like K. G. Subramanyan, Gautam Waghela and Ambadas in the Weaver`s Service Centre, where fine artists worked closely with weavers in the development of modern Indian textile designs. Starting from 1961, until his death in 1995, he held 12 solo exhibitions. In 1969 he won an award instituted by the Japanese newspaper Yoshihari Shimbun. In 1976 he won an award at the annual exhibition of the Lalit Kala Akademi. Towards the end of his life he wrote a book in Marathi called `Kora (Blank) Canvas` (published by Mouj Prakashan, Mumbai). During the 1980s Barwe`s work was known for the peculiar relationship between object and space. Pieces of objects would emerge from the canvas almost as it they had a will of their own. He participated in exhibitions both in India and internationally, including the Fifth International Young Artists, Tokyo (1969), II, III, IV and V Triennales, New Delhi (1971, 1975, 1978 and 1982), the Menton Biennale, France (19760, I Asian-European Art Biennale, Yugoslavia, Turkey (1985) and IX Biennale, Valpariso, Chile (1989). Barwe lived and worked in Mumbai, where he died in 1995. Education • 1954-59 Diploma in Fine Arts, Sir J.J School of Arts, Mumbai
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Selected Posthumous Exhibitions • 2015 'Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection', Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York • 2013-14 'Prabhakar Barwe: Works 1955 to 1995', Percept Art, Mumbai • 2012 'One Eye Sees, the Other Feels', The Viewing Room, Mumbai • 2011 ‘Manifestations V', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi • 2010 'Legacy: A-Vanguard', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi • 2010 'Masters of Maharashtra', collection from Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi at Piramal Gallery, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai • 2008-09 ‘Expanding Horizons: Contemporary Indian Art’, Traveling Exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai; Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati; Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur; Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall,Aurangabad; Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalay’s, Solapur; Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur; PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune; Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik • 1999 ‘Prabhakar Barwe, S.H.Raza and J.Sabavala – Experiments in Stillness’, The Window, Mumbai • 1997 ‘Indian Contemporary Art Post – Independence’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Selected Solo Exhibitions • 1993 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai • 1987 Gallery Chanakya New Delhi Honours and Awards • 1983 Gallery Chanakya New Delhi • 1983-85 Residency Fellowship Grant at Yaddo • 1982 Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad • 1976 National Award, Lalit Kala Award, New Delhi • 1978 Gallery Chanakya New Delhi • 1971 Maharashtra State Award • 1973 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai • 1969 Yomiuri Shimbun Award, Tokyo • 1970 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1968 Award, Annual Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai • 1970 Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi • 1964 Award, Annual Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai • 1968 Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1963 Award, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata • 1967 Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1961-65 Yomiuri Shimbun Award, Tokyo • 1963 Book Bay Gallery, Wisconsin, USA • 1961 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Selected Group Exhibitions • 1995 ‘Water Colors : A Broader Spectrum –II’, with C. Douglas, H. Haloi, P. Kolte, M. Rai, V. Sundaram’, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi • 1993 ‘Reflections and Images’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1992 ‘Journey’s within Landscape’, organized by Sakshi at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1991 ‘State of the Art’, An Exhibition of Electronically –Aided Canvases, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1988 ‘Seventeen Indian Painters’, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Gallery Chemould, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai • 1984 Gallery 7, Mumbai • 1983 ‘Modern Indian Paintings’, Hirsh Horn Museum, Washington D.C, USA • 1982 ‘Modern Indian Paintings’, Hirsh Horn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C, USA • 1982 ‘Inaugural Exhibition’, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal • 1981 ‘Indian painting Today’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1978 ‘New Contemporaries’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1977 ‘Pictorial Space’, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi • 1975 ‘Inaugural Exhibition’, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, USA • 1972 ‘Inaugural Exhibition’, Gallerie Surya, Freinsheim, West Germany • 1970 ‘Indian Painters’, Gallery Coray, Zurich, Switzerland • 1970 ‘Indian Painters’, Hamburg, Germany • 1969-70 ‘Man and His World’, Indian Pavilion, Montreal, Canada • 1969 ‘Art of India and Iran’, USA • 1969 ‘5th International Young Artists Exhibition’, Tokyo, Japan Participations • 1989 9th Biennale, Valparaiso, Chile • 1985 1st Asian – European Art Biennale’, Titograd, Yugoslavia; Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey • 1982 5th International Triennale, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi • 1978 4th International Triennale, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi • 1976 Menton Biennale, France • 1975 3rd International Triennale, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi • 1971 2nd International Triennale, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi • 1959-76 National Annual Exhibitions, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
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Anjolie Ela Menon
Title: Sadhu Medium: Oil on masonite board Size: 13'' x 7.5'' frame to frame - 20'' x 14'' Year: 2012 Certificate by the artist and gallery art musings
BIOGRAPHY Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist. Menon's early canvases exhibited the varied influences of van Gogh, the Expressionists, Modigliani, Amrita Sher-Gil, and M. F. Husain. Mainly portraits, these paintings, according to the artist, “were dominated by flat areas of thick bright colour, with sharp outlines that were painted 'with the vigour and brashness of extreme youth'.” Menon admits that her work has undergone tremendous changes with every phase of her life and that as she has grown older, the narcissism of the early years has been transformed into nostalgia for the past. Menon took up art while still in school, and, by the time she was fifteen, had already sold a couple of paintings. Finding the J.J. School of Art academically stifling, in 1959, at the age of twenty, Menon departed India to study art in Europe on a scholarship from the French Government. There, she was influenced by her exposure to the techniques of medieval Christian artists. While at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Art in Paris, she began to experiment with a muted palette of translucent colours, which she created by the repeated application of oil paint in thin glazes. Painting on hardboard, Menon enhanced the finely textured surface of her paintings by burnishing the finished work with a soft dry brush, creating a glow reminiscent of medieval icons. Menon utilized the characteristics of early Christian art – including the frontal perspective, the averted head, and the slight body elongation – but took the female nude as a frequent subject. The result is a dynamic relationship of the erotic and the melancholy. Menon has developed this iconography of distance and loss in her later works through her thematic depiction of black crows, empty chairs, windows, and hidden figures. It is extremely difficult to compartmentalize Menon’s work, not only because she has been painting for so long, but because of the extreme changes that her oeuvre has constantly undergone. She notes that “dissatisfaction is the source of growth,” and encourages artists to “abandon known (and often acclaimed) ground for new territory”. The body of work she has produced bears testament to her disdain for categorization. Menon is more than happy to not fit into a single category and be Termed a maverick who finds self-expression in an idiom out of context with the time and place in which she lives. She says “I am neither a didactic nor narrative painter. I am hardly concerned with events, though I like to lay my people bare – I like to bare them a bit beyond what is decent, sometimes ripping open a chest to reveal the heart beating within. Of course, there are many who have identified with the women I paint, especially those who are trapped or sitting alone on a chair, or those innocent ones with a newly-awakened sensuality, and those who are waiting.”Menon also disapproves of reading only symbolism in her art. Threads, necklaces, kites, the little animals or draped cloth, transparent or opaque, are the accoutrements and trappings that accompany the figure in her work. These are no conscious attempts at symbolism, sometimes it is mere ornamentation, the essentially feminine need to embellish or embroider, at other times it is the need to accent or to focus on the colour for purely painterly reasons such as perspective or tension. Menon notes, “when repeated often enough, a motif becomes a symbol which in turn becomes a cliché; a cliché becomes an absurdity, a cartoon”. Therefore in 1992, she staged an exhibit of household chairs, trunks and cupboards, all painted with images appropriated from her own paintings. This radical recontextualization of her work constituted a pre-emptive strike by Menon to “remove art from its pedestal”. She continued the re- imagination of her corpus in her “Mutations”series of pentimenti works form 1996, in which Menon manipulated images from her best- known paintings on a computer, and overpainted the print-outs with acrylics and oils. Anjolie Ela Menon was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian honours, by the Government of India in 2000. Her most recent shows include ‘Menongitis-Three Generations of Art’ at Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, in 2008; and ‘Gods and Others’ presented by Apparao Galleries at Admit One Gallery, New York, in 2000. In 1998, the Times of India organized a retrospective of her SLSV Media. Research. Consultancy Sound & Light Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. www.soundnlight.in A global media resource, Research, Rating & Consultancy Network (focused on Indian Social Sector)
work at the Jehangir Art Gallery, and in 2002, another retrospective exhibition titled ‘Four Decades’ was held in Mumbai and in Bangalore. Anjolie Ela Menon has also been honoured with a six month solo show at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, featuring her large triptych entitled ‘Yatra’ in 2006. Menon’s works have been featured in several group exhibitions, including 'Kalpana: Figurative Art in India', presented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London, in 2009; 'Mapping Memories – 2, Painted Travelogues of Bali and Burma’ at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi, in 2008; and ‘Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai’ at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, in 2001.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING • Bachelors in Literature, Delhi University, Delhi • 1959-61 Atelier Fresque, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Art, Paris Exhibitions Selected Solo Exhibitions • 2013 'Recent Paintings', Grosvenor Vadehra, London • 2013 Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai • 2010 'Through the Patina', organized by Vadhera Art Gallery at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi • 2007 ‘Menongitis-Three Generations of Art’, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi • 2006 ‘Celebration’, Gallery Arts India West, Palo Alto • 2005 ArtsIndia West, Palo Alto • 2004 Gallery ArtsIndia, New York • 2003 Vadehra Art Gallery at Shridharani Gallery, Delhi • 2002 ‘Four Decades’, Vadehra Art Gallery at National Art of Modern Art(NGMA), Mumbai, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore • 2000 ‘Gods and others’, Apparao Galleries at Admit One Gallery, New York • 1996 Vadhera Art Gallery, Hong Kong • 1996 Mutations, organized by The Gallery, Madras, at Wallace Galleries, New York • 1988 ‘Retrospective 1958-88’, organized by The Times of India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1976 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai • 1963 Alliance Francaise, Mumbai • 1959 Gallery 59, Mumbai Selected Group Exhibitions • 2014 'Immutable Gaze Part I: Masterpieces of Modern and Pre-Modern Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York • 2013 'Remaking the Modern: An Indian Modern & Contemporary Art Exhibition', Alon Zakaim Fine Art, Dover Street • 2013 'Glimpses of I am the Tiger', Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi • 2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi • 2013 'QUARTO '13', Art Musings, Mumbai • 2013 'The Drawing Wall', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi • 2013 'Color My World', presented by Mahua Art Gallery at Leela Galleria and Windsor Manor, Bangalore • 2013 'Edge of Reason- and beyond, into pure creativity', presented by Indian Art Circle at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi • 2012 'Talking Heads', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi • 2012 'Iconic Processions', Aicon Gallery, New York • 2012 'Gallery Collection', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi • 2012 'Women: Sacred and the Temporal', Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad • 2012 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai • 2011 'The Lost Sparrow', presented by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi • 2011 'Masterclass', Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi • 2010 'Figure/Landscape - Part One', Aicon Gallery, New York • 2009-10 'Unclaimed Spaces', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi • 2009,10 'Master Class', The Arts Trust, Mumbai • 2009 'Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin', Emile Lowe Gallery, Hempstead • 2009 'In Search of the Vernacular', Aicon Gallery, New York • 2009 'Kalpana: Figurative Art in India', presented by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations SLSV Media. Research. Consultancy Sound & Light Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. www.soundnlight.in A global media resource, Research, Rating & Consultancy Network (focused on Indian Social Sector)
(ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London; The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) • 2008 'X at the rate of Jehangir', presented by Art Musings at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai • 2008 'Mapping Memories – 2, Painted Travelogues of Bali and Burma, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi • 2007 ‘Sitaaray - A Galaxy of Artists’, Indian Habitat Centre, Delhi • 2005 ‘Drishti’, Bodhi Art Gallery, New York • 2004 ‘Confluence 2004’, Gallery ArtsIndia, New York • 2004 ‘Jiva- Life, Contemporary Indian Painting’, Bodhi Art Gallery, New York 2001 Saffronart and Apparao Galleries, Los Angeles 2001 Saffronart, Hong Kong • 2001 ‘Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai’, organized by Gallery Espace, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi • 2001 ‘The Sacred Prism III’, organized by Apparao Gallery, London, New York, San Francisco • 1993 ‘Reflections and Images’, Vadehra Art gallery at Jehangir Art gallery, Mumbai • 1986 ‘Indian Women Artists’, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai • 1980 Exhibition at Washington D.C and New York
Participations • 2015 'Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection', Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York • 2013 'Palette Summer 2013', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi • 2012 'Art for Humanity', Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai • 2011 'Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai • 2011 'Resonance', Art Musings, Mumbai • 2010 'Art Celebrates 2010: Sports and the City', represented by Art Alive Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games • 2010 'Art Dubai 2010', presented by Aicon Gallery, New York • 2010 'Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi • 2010 'ARCO 2010 Madrid', presented by Aicon Gallery, London • 1980 Paris Biennale, Paris, France • 1968,71,75 1st,2nd,3rd International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
Honours and Awards • 2000 Awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India • 1959-61 Received French Government Scholarship for Higher Studies in Paris • 1980-81 Invited to study by The Government of France, UK and USA
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PARESH MAITY
Title: Closeness Medium: Watercolour on paper Size: 13" x 13" Year: 2012 Signature in English(lower left) Certificate by the artist and gallery art musings
BIOGRAPHY Paresh Maity was born in 1965, Tamluk - a small town in West Bengal - of great antiquity with a remarkable heritage of terracotta art. While in school he made clay images of gods and goddesses and sold them to earn money for his education. He started painting water-colours of river scenes while still at school and then in oils. He mastered the technique of oil painting at Government College of Art, Kolkata. His single minded determination to acquire formal training paid off when he came to Delhi to join the Delhi College of Art. Paresh's adventurous, experimental personality has prodded him to explore in all mediums – watercolours, drawings, oils, mixed media, sculptures, installations and photography. Paresh's uniqueness lies in his re-discovering the charm, flavor and magic of India in his paintings. Rajasthan has been the human inspiration behind his work, Shantiniketan the spirituality of mind, body and soul, in Agra he visualized the beauty of Taj, in Ajanta-Ellora he recreated the amazing Buddhist frescoes, in his magical series on Kerala he captured the destination in its pristine colours to the serene ghats of Varanasi and the Himalayan heights of Himachal Pradesh has done series on almost all facets and destinations of India and then across the seas to London, Venice, China and Japan. He has painted them all. Paresh has had sixty eight solo exhibitions to his credit held all over the world including India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, France, United Kingdom and United States of America. On the occasion of Rabindra Nath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary, an exhibition of water-colours 'Shesh Lekha' by Paresh Maity was organized at National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi and Mumbai. His latest painting, one of the longest in the world is 800ft. on display at T3 Terminal at Indira Gandhi Airport, New Delhi. He is the recipient of the Royal Watercolor Society Award in London. The Harmony Award in Mumbai. The Governors' Gold Medal from Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. The Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata. Pt. Ravishanker Award from College of Art in New Delhi. All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society has awarded him twice for best water-colour painting. He was awarded for outstanding painting by Birla Academy of Art and Culture. Dayawati Modi Foundation Award for achievement in the field of Art and Culture. Sera Bengali Award in Kolkata by Anand Bazar Patrika. Hall of Fame by Hello (Times of India). His works are in the collection at British Museum in London, Rubin Museum, New York, Commonwealth Institute, London, the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, the Birla Academy of Art and Culture in Kolkata, Tata Iron & Steel Co. ITC, Oberoi Group of Hotels, Leela Hotels, Park Sheraton, RPG, Birla Group, Vatican Embassy, Noon Group, London and many other institutions and private collections all over the world. Education • Master of Fine Arts, College of Art, New Delhi • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata Exhibitions • 2013-14 'Symphony of Silence',... Selected Solo Exhibitions • 2013-14 'Symphony of Silence', Jehangir Art Gallery and Art Musings, Mumbai • 2013 'Venetian Odyssey', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi • 2012 'Passion', presented by Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore at The Arts House, Singapore • 2011 'Shesh Lekha: The Last Poems of Rabindranath Tagore', National Gallery of Modern Art SLSV Media. Research. Consultancy Sound & Light Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. www.soundnlight.in A global media resource, Research, Rating & Consultancy Network (focused on Indian Social Sector)
(NGMA), New Delhi, Mumbai; Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai; Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata • 2010 'The World on Canvas', presented by Art Alive gallery, New Delhi at Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi • 2009 'Montage Moments Memories', Jehangir Art Gallery; Art Musings, Mumbai • 2008-09 Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore; Visual Arts Gallery, Hong Kong • 2008 ‘An Enchanting Journey – Paresh Maity's Kerala’, Art Alive, New Delhi • 2007 ‘Paresh Maity: Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures, Photographs’, Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata • 2006 Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto • 2006 Visual Arts Gallery, Hong Kong in collaboration with Gallery Sumukha • 2005 Arts India, New York • 2005 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in collaboration with Art Musings, Mumbai • 2005 Gallery in Cork Street, London in association with ICICI Bank • 2004 Organized by Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore and Easel, Singapore at Alliance Francaise, Singapore • 2004 Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata • 2003 ‘Shapes in Symphony’, Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi • 2002 Arts India, New York • 2002 Venetian Odyssey, British Council, New Delhi • 2002 Tagore Centre, Berlin • 2001 Venetian Odyssey, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai • 2001 Philip Gallery, London • 2000 Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata • 2000 Gallerie Aspekte, Germany • 2000 Venetian Odyssey, Hotel Aryanbika, Debrecen, Hungary • 2000 Gallerie Mohanjeet, Paris • 1999 ‘Two Decades of Classic Watercolours’, Shridharani, Triveni Kala, Sangam; Gallerie Ganesha, and British Council, New Delhi • 1998 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Participations • 1998 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai • 2012 'Synergy 2012', 12th Anniversary Show, Tao Art • 1998 Gallerie Mohanjeet, Paris Gallery, Mumbai • 1998 Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore • 2011 'Celebrations 2011', Kumar Gallery, New Delhi • 1997 Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata • 2010 'Art Celebrates 2010: Sports and the City', • 1996 Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi represented by Art Alive Gallery at Lalit Kala • 1996 Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, New Delhi Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the • 1996 Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi Commonwealth Games • 1996 Paracelsus Rotenfleskdinik Ausgestelt in association • 2010 'Summer Show 2010', Centre of International with Galerie Aspekie, Germany Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata • 1996 ARKS Gallery, London • 2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, • 1995 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai Mumbai', Nehru Centre, Mumbai • 1994 British Council, Kolkata • 2010 Annual Exhibition, Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi • 1994 Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi • 2010 'Celebration 2010', Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art • 1994 The Gallery, Chennai Gallery, New Delhi • 1994 Galerie Aspekte, Germany • 2007,06,05 ‘Harmony Show’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai • 1994 Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi • 2006 17th Anniversary Show, Gallerie Ganesha • 1993 Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi • 2005 Triennale, India • 1993 All India Fine Arts and Craft Society (AIFACS), New Delhi • 2005 Lalit Kala’s Golden Jubilee Celebration Show, Lalit • 1992 Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi Kala Akademi, New Delhi • 1992 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata • 1997 Aquarelle Internationale Thun, Switzerland • 1992 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1996 Silver Jubilee Exhibition. Cymroza Art Gallery, • 1992 Siddartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu Mumbai • 1992 Windsor Manor, Bangalore • 1995 Cleveland International Drawing Biennale, Cleveland • 1991 Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi • 1991 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and • 1991 Gallery Katayun, Kolkata Culture, Kolkata • 1991 Sophia Duchesne Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1990 Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata • 1990 Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi • 1990 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and • 1990 Gallery Katayun, Kolkata Culture, Kolkata • 1989 Gallery Katayun, Kolkata • 1989 Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata • 1988 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata • 1989 Annual Exhibition, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
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Selected Group Exhibitions • 2012 'Talking Heads', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi • 2011 'States of Departure: Progressives to Present Day', Aicon Gallery, London • 2011 Gallery Sumukha, Chennai • 2011 'Aureus 2011', Gallerie Nvya, New Delhi • 2010 'Symbols and Metaphors', Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata • 2009 'Mark of Masters -2', Art and soul, Mumbai • 2009 'Think Small', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi • 2009 'Beyond the Form', Bajaj Capital Art House; Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Honours and Awards • 2008 'Review', Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata • 2002 Royal Watercolor Society, London • 2007 ‘Young Guns’, Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai • 1999 Harmony Award; Mumbai • 2007 Art Alive, London • 1993 British Council Visitor ship • 2007 ‘Art and Fashion Show’, Gallery Sumukha • 1992 Pt. Ravi Shankar Award from College of • 2007 Royal Watercolor Society, London Art, New Delhi • 2007 ‘Ueno’, Royal Museum, Tokyo • 1990 All India Fine Arts and Craft Society Award • 2007 ‘Darpan’, Gallerie Nvya, New Delhi for 62nd All India Art Exhibition, New Delhi • 2007 ‘Indian Summer’, Art Alive, London • 1990 Award for Outstanding Painting by Birla • 2007 ‘Vistar’, Limited Edition, New Delhi Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata • 2007 House of Lords, London in collaboration with Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1990 All India Fine Arts and Craft Society • 2006 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi (AIFACS) Award for Best Water Color Painting, • 2006 Style File Show, Mumbai New • 2006 ‘Two to Tango’, Gallerie Nvya, New Delhi Delhi • 2006 V & A, London • 1989 National Scholarship Award from • 2006 Tate Britain, UK Government of India • 2005 Joint Exhibition with Gallery Nvya, New Delhi • 1988 Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary • 2005 Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi Celebration Award • 2005 Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi • 1988 Governor’s Gold Medal from Academy of • 2005 Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai Fine Arts, Kolkata • 2005 Kumar Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1987 Jamini Roy Birth Centenary Celebration • 2005 Arushi Art, New Delhi Award • 2005 Royal Watercolor Society, London • 1986 Award from Indian Society of Oriental Art, • 2005 Sanskriti Art Gallery, Kolkata Kolkata • 2005 Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore • 1985 Award from Government of West Bengal • 2004 ‘Family Group Show’, Visual Art, London for Best Water Color Painting • 2003 Uttarayan, group show of Egypt • 1983 Award from Indian Society of Oriental Art, • 2002 Rossy and Rossy Gallery, London in association with Gallery’88, Kolkata Kolkata • 2002 International water color exhibition, Royal Watercolour Society, London • 1983 Gold Medal from U.S.S.R • 2001 Rossy and Rossy Gallery, London, in association of Modi Foundation • 2001 Erotica, Gallerie Mohanjeet, Paris • 2000 Participated in Indian exhibition in Dubai • 1997 ‘Images of Kolkata’, Exhibition along with Ragu Rai and Desmond Doig, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata • 1996 Tribute to Mother Teresa, Mumbai • 1996 Sakhi Mandal, Bangalore • 1996 Gallerie 88, Kolkata • 1996 Rotary Club, Kolkata • 1996 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai • 1996 ‘Views and Visions’, Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi • 1996 ‘Wounds’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata • 1996 National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi • 1996 ‘Trends and Images’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata • 1996 World Miniature Exhibition, Toronto, Canada • 1995 ‘Tree in My Life’, Village Gallery, New Delhi • 1995 ‘Urusvathi’, New Delhi • 1995 Hyatt Regency, New Delhi • 1994 Gallery Katayun, Kolkata • 1994 Gallerie 88, Kolkata • 1994 Indian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tokyo • 1994 ‘People for Animals’, Taj Hotel, New Delhi . • 1993 ‘Malhar’, Maurya Sheraton, New Delhi • 1993 Gallery Katayun, Kolkata SLSV Media. Research. Consultancy Sound & Light Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. www.soundnlight.in A global media resource, Research, Rating & Consultancy Network (focused on Indian Social Sector)
MANJIT BAWA
Title: Untitled Medium: Silkscreen print Size: 17"x17.5"
Year: 1999
Certified by Ina Puri
BIOGRAPHY Manjit Bawa was born in Dhuri in Punjab in 1941, studied at the College of Art. Delhi, and did his diploma at the London School of Printing, Essex in Silk Screen- Printing. From 1967 to'71 he worked in London as a silk screen printer. A figurative painter from the beginning of his career. Manjit has achieved a summary simplicity of figuration, which is remotely reminiscent of Kalighat Pat's and linear flow and modernist remolding of form we find in Jogen Choudhury. Yet his treatments of form is essentially tonal in contour closed and compact, without any trace of the gestural application of pigments in thick layers, unlike the mode mist practice. Perhaps the delicately graded tonalities possible in silk serene forming opened a new possibility of treating form and colour for Manjit, who worked it out in oil, giving his paintings an extra smooth porcelain glow. There is an undercurrent of Sufi mysticism in the choice of his subjects the idyllic scenes of love and peace and pristine innocence, the flute- playing Krishna and the cattle, predatory animals and men appearing together, etc. Manjit not use landscape elements, although his pictorial space is flat he defines the figure's positions by visually relating them at different distances. The main charm of his paintings is the sense -saturating expanse of colour-fields which create space and define the contour of figures. During 1967-71, Manjit had one-man shows in London and St.Sebastian in Spain. He returned to India in 1972, and was for some time on the visiting faculty of the College of Art, Delhi. Later he had a number of solo shows in India and abroad and participated in 'Contemporary Indian Art' at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1982, "Modem Indian Painting' at Hirschom Museum, Washington D.C in 1982, 'Contemporary Indian Art' at the Grey Art Gallery, New York, in 1986, and 'Coup de Coeur' at Halles de Ulle, Geneva, 1987., Manjit Bawa lives and works in New Delhi. Education _ 1958-63 Studied at the School of Art, Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi Exhibitions Selected Posthumous Exhibitions _ 2013-14 'Transition', 20th Anniversary Show, Centre of International Modern Art(CIMA), Kolkata _ 2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi _ 2013 'The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989', SmartMuseum of Art at University of Chicago, Chicago _ 2012 'Art for Humanity', Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai _ 2012 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', presented bySakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai _ 2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA),New Delhi _ 2011 'The Path of the Lotus: Indian Art', Grosvenor Gallery, London _ 2011 'Lets Paint the Sky Red', India Habitat Centre and Vadehra Art Gallery, NewDelhi _ 2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai _ 2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon _ 2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi _ 2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose SLSV Media. Research. Consultancy Sound & Light Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. www.soundnlight.in A global media resource, Research, Rating & Consultancy Network (focused on Indian Social Sector)
_ 2010 'Art Celebrates 2010', represented by Gallerie Ganesha at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games _ 2010 'Dali's Elephant', Aicon Gallery, London _ 2009 'Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin', Emile Lowe Gallery, Hampstead _ 2009 'Kalpana: Figurative Art in India', presented by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London; The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) _ 2009 'Tracing Time', Bodhi Art, Mumbai _ 2009 'In Memoriam', National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi Selected Solo Exhibitions _ 2005 Air Gallery, London organized by Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai and Gallery Maya, London _ 2005 Nehru Centre, London organized by Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai and Gallery Maya, London _ 2005 ‘Mapping the Conscience 1980-2004’, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi _ 2005 ‘Mapping the Conscience 1980-2004’, organized by Sakshi Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai _ 2002 Organized by Sakshi Art Gallery, Sama’a and Indian Contemporary, HongKong _ 2001 Sakshi Art Gallery and Sama’a in Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai _ 2001 ‘Heads’, organized by Sakshi Art Gallery and Sama’a in Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai _ 2000 Bose Pacia Modern, New York _ 2000 Exhibition of Miniatures, London _ 2000 ‘Early Works’, Fine Art Gallery, Mumbai _ 1999 ‘Bhav, Bhaav, Bhavya’, Frames of Eternity with Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai,Academy of Fine Art, Kolkata, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Galleries, New Delhi _ 1998 Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan _ 1997 Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai _ 1996 Gallery Espace, New Delhi _ 1994 ‘Drawings’ 94’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi _ 1994 ‘Miniature Paintings, Silver Boxes and Jewellery’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi _ 1994 Birla Academy, Kolkata _ 1994 ‘Carpets and Tapestries’, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai _ 1992 Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings, CCA, New Delhi _ 1991 Exhibition of Drawings, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai _ 1990 Exhibition of Drawings, CCA, New Delhi _ 1990 Birla Academy, Kolkata _ 1984 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai _ 1982 Art Museum, Washington DC, USA _ 1979 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi _ 1972-74 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi _ 1970 Private Gallery, San Sebastin, Spain Selected Group Exhibitions _ 2008 ‘Freedom 2008 – Sixty Years after Indian Independence’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata _ 2005 ‘Ritu’, an exhibition of miniatures organized by Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi _ 2004 ‘Realm of Fantasy’, organized by Indian Contemporary Art _ 2004 ‘The Margi and the Desi’, organized by Gallery Espace, New Delhi _ 2003 ‘Transition’, organized by Gallerie 88, London _ 2000 Exhibited with Hof and Huyser, Kunst + Rai, Amsterdam _ 1998 ‘Murano Glass Sculptures’, Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai _ 1998 ‘Expat India Women’s Club Group Show’, organized by Impresario,Singapore _ 1998 ‘Four Contemporary Artists’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi _ 1997 Organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) at National Museum, Singapore _ 1996 ‘Highlights’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai _ 1996 ‘Images on Paper’, Art Today, New Delhi _ 1996 ‘Chamatkar’, Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, Organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), London _ 1996 Collection from National Gallery of Modern Art, China _ 1996 Paintings from Bharat Bhavan, Moscow _ 1995 Curated Contemporary Indian Art Show for National Gallery of Modern Art Group Show, Egypt _ 1995 Le Shosde, Paris _ 1994 ‘Drawings' 94’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi _ 1994 ‘Miniatures’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata _ 1994 ‘River of Art’, Art Today, New Delhi _ 1994 Exhibition of Indian Paintings by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Israel SLSV Media. Research. Consultancy Sound & Light Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. www.soundnlight.in A global media resource, Research, Rating & Consultancy Network (focused on Indian Social Sector)
_ 1994 Exhibition of Indian Paintings by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Syria _ 1993 ‘India Songs’, New South Wales Museum, Australia _ 1993 ‘Wounds’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi _ 1993 ‘Trends and Images’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata _ 1992 ‘Images: The Poet and the Painter’, CCA, New Delhi _ 1992 ‘The Subjective Eye’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai _ 1992 ‘Nine Indian Contemporaries’, CCA, New Delhi _ 1992 Roopankar Museum, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal _ 1990 ‘State of Art’, Computer Paintings, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai _ 1990 ‘Exhibition of Drawings’, CCA, New Delhi Honours and Awards _ 1989 ‘Timeless Art’, Times of India, Mumbai _ 2002 ‘Meeting Manjit’, film on Manjit Bawa directed _ 1987 ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai by Buddadeb Dasgupta, received the National Award _ 1985 ‘Five Painters’, Turkey, Haly, Yugoslavia for Best Documentary _ 1984 Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi _ 1986 1st Bharat Bhawan Biennale, Bhopal _ 1983 ‘Seven Painters’, Maurya Gallery, New Delhi _ 1981 All India Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, _ 1982 Asian Art Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan Chandigarh _ 1982 Art Museum, Washington D.C., USA _ 1980 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New _ 1982 Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar , Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal Delhi _ 1980 ‘Miniature Format’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi _ 1963 Sailoz Prize, New Delhi _ 1979 ‘Serigraphs’, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi _ 1979 ‘Indian Art Today’, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi _ 1979 Inaugural Exhibition, ‘Roopankar’, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal _ 1978 ‘Gallery 26 / Artists Forum', New Delhi _ 1977 Natraj Gallery, New Delhi _ 1977 ‘Art India 77’, Lalit Kala Gallery, New Delhi _ 1977 ‘Pictorial Space’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi _ 1977 ‘Gallery 26 / Artists forum', New Delhi _ 1977 Indian Art Today, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta Art Museum, Washington DC _ 1977 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai _ 1977 Twenty Artists, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi Joint Exhibitions _ 1976 Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi _ 2005 ‘In Transit III’, With Ravinder Reddy, organized _ 1972-74 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi by Sakshi Gallery at Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin _ 1970 Private Gallery, San Sebastian, Spain _ 1994 ‘Colored Pencils’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi _ 1969 Terrace, London _ 1963 Shilpi Chakra, New Delhi _ 1962 Government College of Art, Ludhiana _ 1962-63 ‘The Six’, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi _ 1961 Indian Seminar of Art, Ambala Participations _ 2008-09 ‘Expanding Horizons: Contemporary Indian Art’, Travelling Exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy ArtGallery, Mumbai; Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati; Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur; Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad; HirachandNemchand Vachanalay’s, Solapur; Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur; PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune; Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik _ 2005 Golden Jubilee Exhibition of Lalit Kala Akademi, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi_ 2004 ‘Face-to-Face’, Annual Show, Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA),Kolkata _ 2002 ‘Annual Show’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi _ 2001-02-03 Annual Show, Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata,Mumbai, New Delhi _ 1995 ‘Hundred Years of Indian Art’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi _ 1987 Coup de Coeur, Geneva _ 1986 Bharat Bhawan Biennale, Bhopal _ 1986 1st Asian-European Art Biennale, Ankara, Turkey _ 1986 2nd Biennale, Havana, Cuba _ 1985 ‘Roopankar’, Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal _ 1985 ‘Festival of India’, The Grey Art Gallery, New York _ 1984 Tokyo Biennale, Japan _ 1982 Contemporary Indian Paintings, Festival of India, London _ 1979 National Exhibition, New Delhi _ 1977 ‘Contemporary Indian Paintings’, Festival of India, London _ 1976 National Exhibition, New Delhi _ 1963-68 Annual Exhibitions, New Delhi
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3. Photographic Works by Güler Ates
Title: Garment of Desire Medium: Archival digital print Size: 85x60cm Year:2010
Title: Ruins of Eternal Maharana (III) Medium: Archival digital print Size: 20x30.5cms Edition of 7
Title: Garden Medium: Archival digital print Size: 21.5x30.5cms Edition of 7
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Title: Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow 1 Medium: Archival print and silk screen varnished Size: 50 X 60cm Year: 2007
Title: Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow 2 Medium: Archival print and silk screen varnished Size: 50 X 60cm Year: 2007
Güler Ates Qualification 2006-08 Royal College of Art, MA Fine Art; Printmaking, London 2001-04 Wimbledon School of Art, BA {HONS} degree in Fine Art; Painting, London 2000-01 Lewisham College, BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies in Art and Design, London 1996-98 University of Marmara, Fine Art; Painting, Istanbul Solo Exhibitions Dwelling ‘Live Performance’, Casa França-Brasil and Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Brazil,2014 Open Studio, Instituto Inclusartiz, Rio de Janeiro Wispers of Colour, Kubikgallery, Porto, Portugal Publications Zenana, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam, 2013 O Globo (Article), Brazil, 7th April 2014 Books of Dust, Royal Academy of Arts, Café gallery, London Aksam (Article), Turkey, January Trace of the Traceless, The LOFT at Lower Parel, Mumbai, 2012 O Globo (Article), Brazil, July 2013 Threshold, Art First Gallery, London Yurt, (Interview), March, Turkey, 2013 Unveiling the Veil, Marian Cramer Project, Amsterdam The Times of India, (Review), 18th January, India Present and Absent, Great Fosters, Egham, 2011 The Sunday Express, (Review), December, India, No past is mine, no future: look at me! Leighton House Museum, London, 2010 2012 Fusion, Gallery Point-1, Okinawa, Japan ı Daily News & Analytical - DNA, (Review), Veiled Mozaic, The LOFT at Lower Parel, Mumbai, 2009 December, India Projects at Christ Church Spitalfields, London, 2005 Mid-day, (Review), December, India Selected Group Exhibitions TimeOut Istanbul, (Review), May, Turkey 2014 A Desk of One’s Own, Galeri Miz, Istanbul Het Parool Newspaper, (Article), 29th February, The 2013 Outpost Open Film, Outpost, Norwich Netherlands HaberTurk, (Interview), September, Turkey, 2011 Bosphorus Art Newspaper (In September 2010 Issue), Artist interview, Turkey HaberTürk, Turkish National Newspaper, 28 July 2009, Turkey India Express and Mumbai Express, India, 2009 15er, National, UK, 2008 New Contemporaries 08, National, UK
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2Q13 Women Collectors, Woman Artists, Lloyds Club, London Burqas, Veils and Hoodies, Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, Dandenong, Australia Art Barter, Gallery 5533@IMC, Istanbul 2012 3rd International Canakkale Biennial, Canakkale, Turkey Margins, Art Suites Gallery, Istanbul Wunderkammer, Hoxton Art Gallery, London Woman in Art, Brook Gallery, Devon HomeSalon; Marcelle Joseph Projects, Ascot Re: Rotterdam Art Fair, Marian Cramer Project, Rotterdam, NL 2011 Orientations, Hoxton Art Gallery, London Correos, Galleria Progresso, Porto Alegre, Brazil Photography's New "it" Girls, Marcelle Joseph Projects, London Draw Together, Jeannie Avent Gallery (Associated with Dulwich Picture Gallery), London Samvaad, FICA Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, New Delhi, India 2010 Bloomberg New Contemporaries Archive Films, ICA, London Prints of the City, Free Museum of Dallas, US Home, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Zspace, Okinawa, Japan Group Show, Galleria Progresso, London 2009 Indian Summer, Hastings Museum and Gallery, Hastings IAS, New Delhi, India Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Rencontres Internationales de la Photo, Institut Français de Fès, Morocco TBA, New Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, USA 2008 New Prints from Royal College of Arts, Royal Academy of Arts, London 10: The Chris Orr Years, Royal College of Arts, London New Contemporaries, Touring exhibition: Liverpool Biennial (A Foundation)&London(Rochelle Schools) Beyond Borders, Holster Project Space, London Real Presence, The House of Legacy, Belgrade Indian Art Summit 08, New Delhi, India Salon Summer Show, The SaLon Gallery, London Real Presence, Remont Gallery, Belgrade 2007 There and Back Again, Hockney Gallery, London Ensemble (s) ll, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris Re-Formation, Christ Church Spitalfields, London Over and Over Again, Sadler’s Wells, London Art Video Screening, Vasteras, Sweden Detroit 10th International Film/Video Festival, Museums of New Art, (MONA), Michigan 2006 Peace Camp, The Brick Lane Gallery, London Secrets, Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA, London The Vision of the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London Collections 2005 I.D, Crescent Arts, Scarborough Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Brazil Looking Glass, Waterloo Gallery, London Huis Marseille, Photography Collection, The Netherlands Three Sixteen, Candid Arts, London Norlinda and José Lima Private Collection, Portugal Island Art Film & Video Festival ’05, Prenelle Gallery, London House of St Barnabas, London, UK 2004 TAKE 04, Wimbledon School of Art, London Achmea Kunstcollectie, The Netherlands The Launch of Creative Cultures, Merton Council, London The LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands If u want my body, Wimbledon Library Gallery, London Royal Academy of Arts, Photography Collection, London, UK 2003 Identity, Guildford Arts, Guildford Great Fosters, Egham, UK Residency/Awards/commissions Victoria and Albert Museum, Print Collection, London, UK Instituto Inclusartiz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013 – April 2014 The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) Library, Space 118 Residency, Mumbai, December 2012 Portland, USA The Arts Foundation, Nominated for Photography Fellowship, UK Video Library, Crisp Gallery, LA, USA Film and Video Umbrella, Nominated for Tomorrow Never Knows Moving image Award, UK, Royal College of Art, London, UK 2011 Professional Engagements Leighton House Museum Residency, London, April – September 2010 Royal Academy Schools, October 2011- Present, Digital Print The Loft at the Lower Parel (Mumbai) and Arts Reverie (Ahmadabad) Residency, India, July Tutor 2009 Sheffield Hallam University, Visiting Lecturer, 2013 The Foundacion Valparaiso Residency, Mojacar, Spain, Oct - Nov 2008 Marian Cramer Projects, Artist Talk with Bert-Jan Van Egteren Matthew Wrightson Award, 2008 on Middle Eastern Art, The The Cite Internationale Des Arts Residency, Paris, Apr – June 2007 Netherlands, 2012 Short-listed (1 of 6) for 20/21 Century Art prize Oreet Ashery and Güler Ates in Conversation: Identity Politics in Contemporary Art, 2011 Leighton House Museum, Artist Talk, London, UK, 2010 Bhavan Centre (Indian Art Institute for Art and Culture), Artist Talk, 2010 University of Hertfordshire, Visiting Lecturer (including Artist Talk),2008
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4. Sculptures by Valay Gada
Hybrid1
PU paint on fibre-glass and acid washed brass 46” Lx36”Wx24"H 2014
Hybrid3 PU paint on fibre-glass and acid washed brass 42”Lx38”Wx25"H 2014
Ventilator 2
PU and acrylics on brass 6”Lx6”Wx6”H 2014
Valay Gada Professional Training BA in English Literature Design Studies Solo Exhibitions 2014 Debut Solo with THE LOFT at Lower Parel, Anthills of the Urban Savannah Group Exhibitions 2015 Ambiente-(Messe Frankfurt), Talents 2015 Exhibited with THE LOFT at Lower Parel, at India Art Fair, New Delhi 2014 Exhibited with THE LOFT at Lower Parel, at START Art Fair, London 2014 Charity work for Wish a Teddy, Make a Wish Foundation, India 2014 Exhibited in ‘Ritual & Reason’ at Apparao Galleries, Chennai 2014 Exhibited with THE LOFT at Lower Parel, at India Art Fair, New Delhi 2013 Exhibited with THE LOFT at Lower Parel in Exhibit A 2013 Participated in a charity show for EdelGive Foundation with THE LOFT at Lower Parel in Palette 2013 – Art under Palms 2013 Exhibited with THE LOFT at Lower Parel, at India Art Fair, New Delhi 2012 Commissioned project of 31 sculptures for A.P.N.A Group Awards: 2015 Elle Decor International Design Award-Young Talent SLSV Media. Research. Consultancy Sound & Light Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. www.soundnlight.in A global media resource, Research, Rating & Consultancy Network (focused on Indian Social Sector)
6. Young Talent Pankaj Vishwakarma
Title: A Volatile
Medium: Industrial paint on mount board Size: 29"x41" Year: 2015
Title: Melting Moon
Medium: Industrial paint on mount board Size: 30"x42" Year: 2015
Pankaj Ramesh Vishwakarma, Ajamgarh, India Group Exhibition Education 2015 Celebrating 30 Years of Excellence art, Jehangir art 2012 M.V.A. in Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, gallery Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara 2014 Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad 2009 B.V.A. in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, 2014 Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara 2013 Vibrant Gujarat, Kanoria Centre for Arts Residencies & Awards 2012 Art Spice Gallery, New Delhi 2014 Kanoria Centre for Arts Fellowship, Ahmedabad 2012 Priyashri Art Gallery, Mumbai 2014 Video award, All India Vibrant Gujarat 2012 Printmaking show, Faculty of Fine arts, M.S.U., 2013 Kanoria Centre for Arts Fellowship, Ahmedabad Vadodara 2013 Arts 4 all residency, New Delhi 2011 53rd National Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai 2012 Art residency at Uttarayan Art Foundation, Gujarat 2009 Priyashri Art Gallery, Mumbai 2012 Gold Medal, M.V.A Printmaking, Maharajah Sayajirao 2009 Faculty of Fine arts, M.S.U., Vadodara University of Baroda, Vadodara 2008 Gujarat Lalit Kala Akademi, Ahmedabad 2008 Krishnakriti Scholarship, Hyderabad