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  Akbar padamsee      


1928    Born in Mumbai

 

EDUCATION 
 

1951     Diploma, Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION

2011-12  The Body Unbound, Rubin Museum of Art, New York

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PUBLICATIONS

2010       Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2010       Body Parts, The Loft, Mumbai

2010       Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2008       Sensitive Surfaces, Galerie Helene Lamarque, Paris

2007       Metascape to Humanscape, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto

2006       Metascape to Humanscape, Aicon Gallery, New York

2006       Photographs (2004-06), Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

2005       Gallery Threshold and the French Embassy in India, New Delhi

2004       Retrospective of Watercolors, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2003       Critical Boundaries, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2002       Drawing Show,  Gallery Chemould, Mumbai

2002       Tertiaries, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1999       Compugraphics, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai and Art Heritage, New Delhi

1997       Imaging Gandhi, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1996       Female Nudes, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1994       Mirror Images, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1993       Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1993       Heads, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore

1992       Art Heritage, New Delhi

1992       Sanskriti Art Gallery, Kolkata

1988       Art Heritage, New Delhi and Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai

1986       Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1980       Retrospective of works organized by Art Heritage, New Delhi and Mumbai

1981       Urja Gallery, Baroda

1975       Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1974       Metascapes, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1972       Metascapes, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1967       Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal

1963       Gallery ’63, New York

1962       Kunika Chemould Art Centre, New Delhi

1960       Painting in Grey, Gallery ’59, Mumbai

1957       Galerie de Ventadour, France

1954       Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

1953       Gallery Raymond Creure, Paris

1952       Galerie Saint Placide, Paris


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
 

2012       Rewind , Review ... , Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2012       Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art, prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai

2011       Form and Formlessness, Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon

2011       States of Departure: Progressives to Present Day, Aicon Gallery, London

2011       POP: Progressives on Paper, Aicon Gallery, New York

2011       Masterclass, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi

2010-11  Figure/Landscape: Part Two, Aicon Gallery, London

2010       Figure/Landscape: Part One, Aicon Gallery, New York

2010       The Progressives & Associates, Grosvenor Gallery, London

2010       Black and White, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2010       From Miniature to Modern: Traditions in Transition, Rob Dean Art, London in association with Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2010       Black is Beautiful, India Fine Art, Mumbai
2010       Masters of Maharashtra, collection from Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi at Piramal Gallery, National Centre for the Performing
               Arts (NCPA), Mumbai

2009       Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2009       Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin,
               Emile Lowe Gallery, Hempstead

2009       Sacred and Secular, India Fine Art, Mumbai

2009       Think Small, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi

2009       Progressive to Altermodern: 62 Years of Indian Modern Art, Grosvenor Gallery, London

2008       Faces, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008       Freedom 2008 – Sixty Years of Indian Independence, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata

2007-08  India Art Now: Between Continuity and Transformation, Province of Milan, Milan, Italy

2007       Winter Show, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto

2006       Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) Gallery, Kolkata

2006       Shadow Lines, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

2006       Drawing Show an Act of Art II, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai

2005       Contemporary Indian Art, Nehru Center, London

2005       Visions of Landscape, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

2005       Ashta Nayak: Eight Pioneers of Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York

2005       Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

2004       Anticipations, Fine Arts Resource, Mumbai

2004       Concept and Form, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

2004       Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2002       Saffronart and Pundole Gallery, New York

2002       Words and Images, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

2001       Saffronart and Pundole Gallery, New York

2001       Engendering Images of a Woman, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

2000       Rare Collection Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

1999       Creative Process, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

1998       Drawings, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

1997       Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

1997       50 Years of Indian Art, Mohile Parikh Centre for Visual Arts (MPCVA), Mumbai

1996       Modern & Contemporary Paintings: One Hundred Years, London

1995       Indian Contemporary Paintings, London

1994       Mirror-Image Series, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1993       Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai

1993       Reflections & Images, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

1992       Sanskrit Art Gallery, Kolkata

1992       Group Show with Laxman Shreshtha & Jogen Chowdhury, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1991       National Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi         

1991       State of the Art First Computer Art Show in Mumbai, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

1990       Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai

1989       Timeless Art, Mumbai

1988       Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai

1987       Festival of India in U.S.S.R, Moscow

1985       Indian Artists in France

1985       Artistes Indiens en France Foundation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques,Paris
1984       Contemporary Indian Painters, Raj Bhavan, Mumbai. Organized by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1982       Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, Royal Academy of Art, London
1981       India: Myth & Reality – Aspects of Modern Indian Art Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Oxford

1981       Indian Painting Today, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

1979       Focus, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai

1963       Gallery '63, New York

1958       Seven Indian Painters, Gallery One, London

1953       Galerie Raymond Creuse, Paris

1952       Galerie Saint – Placide, Paris


PARTICIPATIONS

2012       Art for Humanity, Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai

2012       Synergy 2012, 12th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai

2012       Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi

2011       Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore

2011       Time Unfolded, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2010       Art Celebrates 2010, represented by Gallery Threshold at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the
               Commonwealth Games
2010       Master’s Corner, organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; India International Art Fair,
               New Delhi
2010       Contemporary Printmaking In India, presented by Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Priyasri Art
               Gallery, Mumbai

2010       Manifestations IV, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi

2009       Miniature Format Show 2009 - IInd Part, Sans Tache Gallery, 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

2008       Harvest 2008, organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi

2008       The Miniature Format Show – Part I, Sans Tache, Mumbai

1968       Indian Triennale, New Delhi

1963       Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1963       3rd Paris Biennale, Paris

1961       2nd Paris Biennale, Paris

1959       Tokyo Biennale, Japan

1959       Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil

1955       Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1953       Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

HONOURS AND AWARDS
 
 

2010       Padama Bhushan from Government of India

2010       Kailash Lalit Kala Award, New Delhi

2008       Roopdhar, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai

2007       Dayawati Modi Award

2004       Lalit Kala Ratna, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

1997-98  Kalidas Samman by the Madhya Pradesh Government

1969       Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship

1967       Artist in Residence, Stout State University, Wisconsin

1965       J.D. Rockefeller IIIrd Fund, Fellowship

 

     
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
 
 

 
 
 

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