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Recently, he has returned to watercolours, imposing upon himself a discipline which demands accountability of every stroke of the brush, thereby minimizing chance happenings. With direct reference to the experience of fatherhood, there emerges a new landscape composed of the paraphernalia which surrounds a child. In successive paintings, these images are reduced to calligraphic bands of symbols which persist beyond the field of immediate perception, supportive strokes against which future vistas of experience come into being.
1982-87 B.F.A (Print Making) Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, India
1987-89 M.F.A. (Painting) M.S. University of Baroda, India.
1990-92 M.A. ( Painting) Royal College of Art, London (including a term each at Cite des Arts, Paris and Hoschule der Kunst, Berlin.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1992 CCA Gallelry, New Delhi
1993 Gallery 7, Bombay
1993 Alliance Francaise de Madras
1994 ‘Invisible Cities’-Galerie 88, Calcutta
1995 ‘Invisible Cities’-Gallery7, Bombay
1997 ‘Meanderings’-Gallery7, Bombay
1998 ‘In Pursuit if the Trivail’-Galerie 7 and Prithvi Gallery, Bombay.
2001 ‘Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses’,-Artcore Gallery, Baroda and Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS
1989 Fellowship in creative painting, Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad
1990-92 Inlaks Scholarship to study painting at RCA, London.
1992 Awarded Erasmus exchange scholarship to study for a term at Hdk, Berlin.
Burston Award and Fleur Cawies Award for Excellence, London.
1994-96 Junior Fellowship in Visual Art, Ministry of HRD, Govt. Of India.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / CAMPS
1988 Painters Camp, XAL Human Growth Centre, Goa.
1991 ‘On Sight’, Tower Bridge Piazza, London.
1992 ‘Off Sight’, Cooling Gallery, London.
1993 ‘Trends in Contemporary Indian Art’, Art Heritage, New Delhi.
1996 All India Artists Camp, IPCL, Baroda.
‘Art Trends-West Bengal in the 90’s’, Art Today, New Delhi.
1997 ‘Gift for India’, Sahmat, New Delhi and Bombay.
12th International Asian Art Exhibition, Federation of Asian Artists. Macau.
International Artists Camp (During the 5th Triannale) LKA, New Delhi.
1998 ‘Bilkool’, Melbourne and Perth, Australia.
‘Wilberding Collection of Contemporary Indian Art’ NGMA, Bombay.
‘Cryptograms’, Lakeeren Gallery, Bombay.
International Cairo Biennale, Cairo. Egypt.
1999 ‘Edge of the century’, British Council, New Delhi.
‘Icons of the Millennium’, Lakeeren Gallery, Bombay.
Bishwa Banga Millennium Festival, Calcutta.
2000 ‘Embarkations’-Sakshi Gallery, Bombay.
‘Beyond the Surface’-Fine Art Co., Bombay & Gallery Espace, New Delhi.
‘Khoj International Artists’ Workshop, Modinagar, New Delhi.
2001 Art of Bengal (1850-2000),-NGMA Bombay & CIMA Calcutta.
The Harmony show,- Nehru Centre, Bombay.
(Since 1995, teaches at the Painting dept., Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University of Baroda.)
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