 Padma Shree, Anjolie Ela Menon Head of Jury, shOObh Arts Competition-2011 |
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"We hope to get thousands more entries this year. The theme is vast enough to get children's imaginations stretch to include fantasy and reflect sympathy for the animal world." Born 1940 - Burnpur, West Bengal, India. Education • Bachelors in Literature, Delhi University, Delhi. • 1959-61 Atelier Fresque, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Art, Paris Exhibitions Selected Solo Exhibitions • 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 ArtsIndia 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 • 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 (ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London; The Indian Council for Cultural Relations. • 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 • 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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