"My art is more like a researcher's project who uses quotes rather than an essay,with each painting necessitating a bibliography," Jitish Kallat, while defining his art. His obsessive use of the self image in his paintings as the main protagonist makes his works autobiographical. The autobiography addresses personal relations as well as the ones he has with his ancestory, time, death...
He chooses a method that is a very...
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"My art is more like a researcher's project who uses quotes rather than an essay,with each painting necessitating a bibliography," Jitish Kallat, while defining his art. His obsessive use of the self image in his paintings as the main protagonist makes his works autobiographical. The autobiography addresses personal relations as well as the ones he has with his ancestory, time, death...
He chooses a method that is a very economical, nearly abstract , form of narrative. Images float around the protagonist, like icons on a computer screen, creating a webwork. The sources are "any visual material relevant to me." Images of the print media are photocopied, transferred on to the surface, hence 'real', as against the painted which he considers fictional. The images are like a picture puzzle, which the viewer has to decode and conclude upon. The treatment of the picture plane is like a battered wall, and refers to the duality in his painting.
The use of text, for titles, which are very important to Jitish, infuse the paintings with a sense of humour. An emblematic , which actually began as a joke on his classmates while at the Sir J.J. School of Art, is ironical for him. "It is like copyrighting an artwork which itself has been appropriated from so many histories, people, collaborations .." It acknowledges an acceptance as well as his critique of the modernist concept of authorship in which he revels.
Born in 1974, Jitish Kallat received his Bachelor’s degree in painting from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1996. His solo shows include 'Public Notice 3' at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, in 2010; ‘Likewise’ at Arndt and Partner, Berlin, in 2010; ‘The Astronomy of the Subway’ at Haunch of Venison, London, in 2010; ‘Aquasaurus’ at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, in 2008; ‘Public Notice 2’ at Bodhi Art, Singapore, in 2008; ‘Skinside Outside’ at Arario Gallery, Seoul, in 2008; ‘Universal Recipient’ at Haunch of Venison, Zurich, in 2008; ‘Unclaimed Baggage’ at Albion, London, in 2007; and ‘Sweatopia’ at Bodhi Art and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, in 2007. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including ‘Monumental’ at Walsh Gallery, Chicago, in 2010-11; 'Now Through a Glass Darkly' at Arario Gallery, New York, in 2010; 'Changing The World' and ‘A Long Way From Home’ at Arndt & Partner, Berlin, in 2010; 'The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today' at the Saatchi Gallery, London, in 2010; 'Bring Me A Lion' at the Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, in 2010; 'All That Is Solid Melts Into Air' at Lakeeren, Mumbai, in 2009-10; 'Indian Summer' at Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin, in 2009; 'Architectonica' at Seven Art Limited and Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2009; and 'India Contemporary' at the GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hague, in 2009. The artist lives and works in Mumbai.
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Born
1974
Mumbai
Education
1990-96 Bachelor of Arts (Painting), Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 'Return to Sender', Frist Art...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 'Return to Sender', Frist Art Museum, Nashville
2020 'Terranum Nuncius', Famous Studios, Mumbai
2019 'Phase Transition', Galerie Templon, Paris
2018 'Decimal Point', Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
2017 'Jitish Kallat: Covariance', Galerie Templon, Brussels
2017 'Here after Here', National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2016 'Sightings', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2015 'The Infinite Episode', Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
2013-14 'Epilogue', The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2013 'The Hour of the Day of the Month of the Season', Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
2012-13 'Circa', The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2012 'Chlorophyll Park', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2011 'Fieldnotes: Tomorrow Was Here Yesterday', Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
2011 'Stations of a Pause', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2010 'Public Notice 3', The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2010 'Likewise', Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2010 'The Astronomy of Subway', Haunch of Venison, London
2008 'Aquasaurus', Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney
2008 'Public Notice 2', Bodhi Art, Singapore
2008 'Skinside Outside', Arario Gallery, Seoul
2008 'Universal Recipient', Haunch of Venison, Zurich
2007 'Sweatopia', Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures, Photographs (2005-07), Bodhi Art and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2007 ‘Unclaimed Baggage’, Albion, London
2007 ‘365 Lives’, Arario Gallery, Beijing
2007 ‘Rickshawpolis - 3’, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2006 ‘Rickshawpolis - 2’, Spazio Piazza Sempione, Milan
2005 ‘Rickshawpolis - 1’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2005 ‘Panic Acid’, Bodhi Art Gallery, Singapore
2005 ‘Humiliation Tax’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2004 ‘The Lie Of The Land’, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2004 ‘FAQ’, Art Rotterdam, represented by Willem Baars Art Consultancy, Holland
2002 ‘First Information Report’, Bose Pacia, New York
2001 ‘Milk Route’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2001 ‘General Essential’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2000 ‘Ibid.’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1999 ‘Private limited-I’, Bose Pacia, New York
1999 ‘Private limited-II’, Apparao Gallery, Chennai
1998 ‘Apostrophe’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
1997 ’P.T.O. ‘, Gallery Chemould, Prithvi Gallery and The Garret, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 'Making Art', Piramal Art Museum, Mumbai
2018 'Riots: Slow Cancellation of the Future', IFA Galleries, Berlin and Stuttgart
2018 'Asymmetrical Objects', Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum Mumbai City Museum
2018 'New Presentation of Contemporary Collections', Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2018 'Vision Exchange: Perspective from India to Canada', Art Gallery of Alberta, and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2017 'India Re-worlded: Seventy years of Investigating a Nation', Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai
2017 'Age of Terror', Imperial War Museum, London
2017 'A World in the City: Zoological and Botanic Gardens', IFA Stuttgart
2016 'Given Time: The Gift and its Offerings', Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai
2016 'Telling Tales: Excursions in Narrative Form', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2016 'Sacred and Profane', Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2016 'Deconstruction-Reconstruction', Art & Public, Geneva
2015 Obsession – Maison Particulière, Brussel
2015 'Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2012 '2 + 2 = 5', The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'Mapmakers: The Evolution of Contemporary Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York
2011 'Boundaries Obscured', Haunch of Venison, New York
2011 'Pause: A Collection', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon
2011 'I Don’t Need Your Money Honey All I Need is Love', from The Farook Collection at Traffic, Gallery II, Dubai
2010-11 'Monumental', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2010 'Orientations: Trajectories in Indian Art', Foundation 'De 11 Lijnen', Oudenburg, Belgium
2010 'Metropolis', The New Art Gallery Walsall
2010 'Looking Glass: The Existence of Difference', Twenty Indian Contemporary Artists presented by Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi in collaboration with American Centre; British Council; Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
2010 'Collection Show 2010', Arario Gallery, Seoul
2010 'Now Through a Glass Darkly', Arario Gallery, New York
2010 'Changing The World', Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2010 'A Long Way from Home', Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2010 'Bring Me A Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', The Hunt Gallery, St.Louis, Missouri
2010 'Symbols and Metaphors', Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2009-10 'All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Indian Contemporary Art in Global Times', Lakeeren, Mumbai
2009 'Indian Summer', Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin
2009 'Architectonica', Seven Art Limited in collaboration with Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi
2009 'India Contemporary', GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hague
2009 'Life is A Stage', Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai
2009 'Inaugural Show', Sakshi Gallery, Taipei
2008-09 'Body Chatter: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2008 ‘Everywhere Is War (and Rumors of War)’, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 ‘Frontlines: Notations from the Contemporary Indian Urban’, BodhiBerlin, Berlin
2008 ‘Freedom 2008 – Sixty Years of Indian Independence’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2008 'Portrait of a Place', Rob Dean Art Gallery, London
2007-08 ‘India Art Now: Between Continuity and Transformation’, Province of Milan, Milan
2007-08 ‘Urban Manners’, Contemporary Artists from India, Hangar Bicocca, Milan
2007 ‘After Shock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary India’, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
2007 ‘Soft Power: Asian Attitude’, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2007 ‘Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art’, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2007 ‘India: Public Spaces, Private Places’, Contemporary Photography and Video Art, Newark Museum, USA
2007 ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India’, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago
2006-07 ‘Passages / Contemporary India’, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
2006 ‘Another Worlds’, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
2006 Lille 3000, Lille, France
2006 ‘Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art’, Arario Gallery, Beijing and the Busan Museum, Korea
2006 ‘Made by Indians: L’Art a La Plage’, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Ramatuelle, France
2005 ‘Indian Summer’, Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2005 ‘The Artist Lives and Works in Baroda/Bombay/Calcutta/Mysore/ Rotterdam/ Trivandrum’, House of World Culture, Berlin
2005 ‘Paths of Progression’, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2005 ‘Mom and Pop Art’, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2005 ‘The Armory Show’, represented by Nature Morte, New York
2005’ International Painting’, Gallery GBK, Sydney
2005 Kunst En Oorlod, Kunst en Cultuur Noord-Holland
2004 ‘The Sacrifice - An Intimate I’, Collection of Henri Swagemakers, Museum De Beyerd, Holland
2004 ‘Contemporary Art from India’, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Summer Show’, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Art Chicago’, Presented by Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2004 ‘Masala’, William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut
2004 ’Zoom! Art in Contemporary India’, Culturgest Museum, Lisbon
2003 ‘Sub Terrain: artists dig the contemporary’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2003 ‘Drawing Conclusions’, International exhibitions of artist-writers, New York Arts Gallery
2003 ‘Pictorial Transformations’, National Art Gallery, Malaysia
2003 ‘Urban Graffiti’, Woolff Gallery, London
2003 ‘Crossing generations: diVERGE’, Gallery Chemoulds 40th anniversary, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai,
2003 ‘Indians + Cowboys’, Gallery 4a, Sydney
2003 ‘The Tree from the Seed’, Henie Onstad Kultursenter, Hovikodden, Norway
2003 ‘Arco 2003’, Madrid, Spain
2002 ’India: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collection’, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey
2002 Singapore Art Fair
2002 ‘Navarasa’, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2002 ‘Perspecta’, Organized by Gallery 88, Rossi and Rossi Gallery, London
2002 ‘Clicking into Place’, Organized by Japan Foundation at the Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2002 ‘Cinema Still’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 ‘Mela’, an R.P.G. Enterprises show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 ‘Century City’, Tate Modern, London
2001 ‘Indian Painting’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2001’ Indian Contemporary Fine Arts’, presented by Saffronarts.com, Seven Degrees, California, USA
2001 ‘New Works’, Gallerie 88, Kolkata and Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2001 ‘Finding the Margins at the Center’, presented by Apparao Galleries, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi
2000 ‘Indian Artists at Home in the World’, Presented by The Fine Art Resource, Jehangir Art Gallery,Mumbai
2000 Exhibition of the Final Nominees for the Sotheby’s Prize, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2000 ‘The Southern Paradigm’, Lakeeren, Mumbai
2000 ‘Family Resemblances’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
2000 ‘The Mumbai Metaphor’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Intersections’, Guild Art Gallery, Artists Centre, Mumbai
1999 ‘Embarkations’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1999 ‘Icons of the Millennium’, Lakeeren, Mumbai
1999 ‘Legatee-The J. J. School of Art’, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai
1999 ‘Young Artists’, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1999 Nature Morte, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998 Beaux Arts Magazine's International Exhibition Art of the World 1998, Paris
1998 ‘Multi Media Art of 90's’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA )Gallery, Kolkata
1998 ‘Cryptograms’, Lakeeren, Mumbai
1998 Jehangir Nicholson Collection, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
1998 The Wilberding Collection, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1998 ‘SPIN’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1998 ‘Indian Contemporary Art’, The R.P.G. Collection, Leverkusen and Monheim, Germany
1998 ‘Artists for a Sustainable World’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1997 Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel's Innenseite, Kassel, Germany
1997 ‘50 years of Art in Mumbai’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
1997 ‘50 years of Freedom of Expression’, R.P.G. Enterprises, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Joint Exhibitions
2013 'Palindrome', with Gilbert and George at ARNDT, Singapore
2003 ‘Hard-Copy’, with Reena Kallat at Gallery 88, Kolkata
Participations
2019 'Modus Operandi II: In-Situ: Artist Studio', India Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
2019 'Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada', Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada; University of Toronto Art Centre
2018 Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Singapore Art Prize 2018 Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2017 'Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection', Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2016 Setouchi Triennale, Takamatsu, Japan
2016 'Art from Elsewhere: International Contemporary Art from UK', Galleries, Arnolfini, Bristol
2015 'Postdate: Photography and Inherited History of India', organized collaboratively by the San Jose Museum of Art and the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
2015 'After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 1947/1997', Queens Museum of Art, New York
2015 'After Utopia', Singapore Art Museum
2014 'Busan Biennale 2014: Inhabiting the World', Busan
2012 'Indian Highway VI', organized in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway at The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2012 'Migration', presented by ARNDT, Berlin at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney
2012 ‘To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art’, as part of Art Chennai, Edition II at Lalit Kala Regional Centre, Chennai
2012 'Art for Humanity', Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2011-12 'India: Lado a Lado / Arte Contemporânea Indiana (India: Side by Side / Indian Contemporary Art)', part of the Exhibition ÍNDIA! presented by Brazilian Ministry of Culture and Banco do Brasil at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília
2011-12 'Indian Highway', in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
2011 'Homespun', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2011 'Encounters: Journeys through Language and Landscape', Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire, UK
2011 'Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I Am', Museum Tinguely, Basel 2011 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay', Centre Pompidou, Paris
2011 'Watercolor', Tate Britain, London
2011 'Maximum India', The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC
2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
2011 'Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2011 'Collectors Stage: Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections', Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2010 'Finding India: Art for the New century', presented by Sakshi Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
2010 'FIAC 2010', Paris represented by Chemould Prescott Road
2010 'When Will You Be Happy', part of Sculpture at Pilane, Sweden
2010 'Roots', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at The Park, Chennai
2010 'The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today', The Saatchi Gallery, London
2010 'Urban Manners 2', SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 'India Xianzai: Contemporary Indian Art', Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2009 'Passage to India, Part II: New Indian Art from the Frank Cohen Collection', at Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK
2009 'Mythologies', Haunch of Venison, London
2009 'Indian Narrative in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History', Casa Asia, Madrid
2009 'ARCOmadrid', Spain represented by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2008-09,10,11 'Indian Highway', a Traveling Exhibition presented in Collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at Serpentine Gallery, London; Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), Herning, Denmark; Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2008-09 ''Modern India', organized by Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture at Valencia, Spain
2008-09 'Art Foundation Mallorca Collection', Centre Cultural Andratx (CCA), Mallorca, Spain
2008-09 'GSK Contemporary: Part 2 - Collision Course', Royal Academy of Art, UK
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 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2008 'India: Public Places, Private Spaces', Contemporary Photography and Video Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
2008 'GSK Contemporary', Royal Academy of Arts, London
2008 'The Tropics: Views From The Middle of the Globe', presented by Goethe-Institut and the Ethnological Museum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2008 Presented by Chemould Prescott Road at Art Basel Miami, Basel
2008 Guangzhou Triennale 2008 presented by Bodhi Art
2008 'SHContemporary 2008', represented by Bodhi Art
2008 'Art Beijing 2008', Beijing represented by Bodhi Art
2007 ‘SHContemporary’, Shanghai represented by Bodhi Art
2007 ‘SHContemporary’, Shanghai represented by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2007 Presented by Willem Baars Projects at Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2006 The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, Australia
2006 The 6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2005 1st Pocheon Asian Art Triennial, Pocheon, Korea
2000 ‘Seventh Havana Biennial’, Havana, Cuba
2000,1999,98 Kunstrai, International Art Fair, Represented by Willem Baars Gallery, Amsterdam
1999 The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
1997-96 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1996 ‘Miniature Format Show’, Sans Tache, Mumbai
1996 ‘Monsoon Show’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1995 ‘Varsha '95’, Y. B. Chavan Art Gallery, Mumbai
Honours and Awards
2003 Young Achiever Award, Provogue-Society
2002 Harmony Award
2001 Indo-American Society’s ‘Young Achiever Award’
2001 Sanskriti Award
1996-97 Awarded Fellowship at Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai
1996 K.K. Hebbar Art Foundation Award
1996 First Prize, Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai
2003 Young Achiever Award, Provogue-Society
2002 Harmony Award
2001 Indo-American Society’s ‘Young Achiever Award’
2001 Sanskriti Award
1996-97 Awarded Fellowship at Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai
1996 K.K. Hebbar Art Foundation Award
1996 First Prize, Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai
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