G. R. Iranna

Biography

G R IRANNA (born 1970) took an MFA in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi (1994) and was artist in residence at the Wimbledon School of Art, London (1999-2000). Having studied in Bijapur, Gulbarga, and New Delhi, he has always carried with him, his early memories of growing up on a farm with him, and evolved a richly informed appreciation of Virashaiva religious poetry, Adilshahi architecture, and contemporary global art. These varied interests inform his paintings and sculptures, as well as his experiments with the installation form. Since the mid-1990s, Iranna has held 13 solo exhibitions of his work with galleries in New Delhi, Mumbai, London, Munich, Singapore, and Hong Kong, among other cities. He has shown in numerous group shows and been invited to participate in curated exhibitions, including, most recently, �Paths of Progression� (Bodhi Art and Saffronart, New Delhi and Bombay, 2005), �The Human Figure� (curated by Marta Jakimovicz, Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2006), and �Zip Files� (curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Foundation B&G, Bombay, 2009). In 2007, Lund Humphries, London, and Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, collaborated to publish a book on his work, Ranjit Hoskote�s The Dancer on the Horse: The Art of G R Iranna.


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Jayashree Chakravarty

Biography

Born in 1956, Khoai, Tripura
She studied painting from wide range of art education institutions, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan and M. S. University, Baroda. She has also been an artist in residence at the École d’Art, Aix-en-Provence, France. She has been honoured with the Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai (1980), II Bharat Bhavan Biennial Award (1988), British Council Visitorship grant (1989), French Govt. Scholarship (1991) and Honourable Mention Award, Asian Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh (1997) to mention some. She has held several solo shows since 1992 regularly in Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi and Kolkata. Her major solo shows include: ‘Where the Sand meets the Sky’, New York and ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India’, Chicago in 2007; ‘Route Map of Experience’, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (2003); ‘The Mind is its Own Place’, New York (2002) and at Ecole d’Art, Aix-en-Province, Paris (1995). Chakravarty is probably the only Indian artist to show at the prestigious Drawing Centre in New York (1998). She has been part of prestigious group shows in India and abroad like ‘Crossing Generations: Divergence’, Mumbai (2003); ‘Moving Ideas: A Contemporary Dialogue with India’, Vancouver (2001); ‘Boundlessly various and Everything Simultaneously’, curated by Peter Nagy, New York (2000); ‘Fire and Life’ in Canberra after an Indo-Australian residency in Calcutta and Brisbane (1997); ‘Watercolours: A Broader Spectrum’, Mumbai and ‘Women Artists of India: A Celebration of Independence’, Oakland in 1995. ‘India: Contemporary Art’, Amsterdam and ‘Indian Eclectics’, Sponsored by French Embassy and Sanskriti Prathisthan, New Delhi in 1989 to name a few. Her works are held by several prestigious collections in India and abroad.

She lives and works in Kolkata.


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Sharmi Chowdhury

Biography

Born in 1974. She completed her BFA in Painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan in 2003 & M.F.A. in Painting from M.S University Baroda in 2005. She has held her solo show at Sarjan Art Gallery Baroda in 2005. She has also participated in many group shows in Kolkata, Mumbai, Baroda and New York. She has won Camlin Art Award in 2003 and Nokia Art Award in 1998 and has received Kalabhavan merit scholarship in 1998 – 2002. She lives and works in Baroda.


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Thota Vaikuntam

Biography

Born in 1942, Boorugupalli (Andhra Pradesh), Vaikuntam studied at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad from where he graduated in 1960. In 1971, he won the Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship to study Painting and Printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda under Prof. K.G. Subramanyan. He won the Bharat Bhavan Biennale Award, Bhopal in 1988 and the National Award awarded by the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1993. He has also received the National Award for Art Direction of film ‘Daasi’ in 1988-89. He has held several solo shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions, prominent being VII International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1991; ‘Art Encounter’, Kassel, Germany, 1992; ‘India-Encounter II’, Lee Arthur Studio, New York, 1994-95. A retrospective show of his works was organised by Art Alive Gallery in New Delhi in 2005. The gallery has also published a book on his life and art written by Sushma Bahl. He lives and works in Hyderabad.


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Yusuf Arakkal

Biography

Born in 1945 in Kerala, Arakkal completed his Diploma in painting from Chitrakala Parishath College of Art, Bangalore in 1973. For his specialisation in graphic print-making he went to National Art Academy Community Studios, Garhi, New Delhi in 1980. He has been honoured with several awards including the National Award in 1983; a Special Award at the Third Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka in 1986; the Karnataka Rajyotsva Award in 1999; Lorenso-De-Medici Silver medal at the 4th Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Italy in 2003; Lorenso-De-Medici Gold medal at 5th Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Italy. He visited Arad International Biennale of Art at Romania as an International Artistic Committee Member in 2005. He has participated in many shows since his first in 1975, including the Sixth Biennale de Beaux Art, Beaumont, France; Third Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh; Sixth International Triennale, New Delhi and Ninth International Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil. He lives and works in Bangalore.


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