BEGINNINGS
Born in Sojitra, Gujarat. ? 1962 Graphic Design Consultant, NID, Ahmedabad. ? 1963 Founded member, Group 1890, a group of 12 artists, Bhavnagar. ? 1963-66 Deputy Director, Weavers? Service Centre, Govt. of India. ? 1973, 76, 81-93 Member, State Lalit Kala Akademi, Gujarat. ? 1975-88 Elected member, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. ? 1978 Delegate invitee, 14th Sao Paoulo Biennale, Brazil. ? 1981-85 Chairman, Board of Studies and Faculty Board, Beneras Hindu University, Benaras and Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. ? 1985 Invited by the Max Muller Bhavan to participate in the East-West Encounter, Visual Art Seminar and Workshop, Bombay. ? 1989 Jury member, 1st Bharat Bhavan International Prints Biennale, Bhopal. ? 1994-2000 Chairman, State Lalit Kala Akademi, Gandhinagar. ? Lives and works in Vadodara.
EDUCATION
1950-55 Studied at J.J. School of Art, Bombay. Studied Typography and Publicity Design, Central School of Art and Craft, London. ? 1957-59 National Diploma in Design.
EXHIBITIONS
1967 Seven Painters, London. ? 1968 Group exhb., Kunika Chemould Art Gallery, New Delhi. ? 1968, 75, 78, 81 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. ? 1969 Indian Painters, Calcutta. ? 1970 Contemporary Indian Painters, Tehran. ? 1973 Contemporary Indian Paintings, Renwick Gallery, Washington DC. ? 1979 Six British International Print Biennale. ? 1979 Asian Artists Exhb., Tokyo. ? 1982 Festival of India, London. ? 1985 Weavers? Service Centres exhb., Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. ? 1985 Graphic Print Exhb., Festival of India, USA. ? 1985 Graphic Art in India Since 1950, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. ? 1994 3rd International Prints Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. ? 1994 Exhb. of 28 Contemporary artists, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria, USA. ? 2004 Solo exhb., Gallery Espace, New Delhi. ? 2005 Manifestations III, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Nehru Center, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. ? 2006 So
COLLECTION
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. ? Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. ? Art Society of India, Mumbai. ? Gallery Chemould, Mumbai. ? Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. ? School of Architecture, Ahmedabad. ? Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad. ? Chandigarh University Museum, Chandigarh. ? Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
AWARDS
1957, 63, 73, 84 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. ? 1960 Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. ? 1980 Award, State Lalit Kala Akademi, Gujarat. ? Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, London. ? 1992 Received Ravishanker Raval Award, Govt. of Gujarat. ? 1994 Awarded Emeritus Fellowship, Govt. of India. ? 1997 Kala Ratna, AIFACS, New Delhi.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1961 Reader in Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. ? 1962-63 Reader in Visual Design, School of Architecture, Ahmedabad. ? 1966-90 Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. ? 1981-85 Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda