Prafulla Dahanukar
PRAFULLA DAHANUKAR
Prafulla
was born in Goa, the picturesque land of art and music. She had her training
at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, where she won the Gold Medal for
the best work of 1955, the year she obtained her diploma.
She held individual shows regularly and won a Silver Medal at the Bombay
Art Society Portrait Exhibition. The government of France awarded her
a scholarship for the study of graphic art at Ecole de Beaux Arts and
Atelier 17 in Paris for a year. While in Paris she held an exhibition
of her paintings in 1961 and has since then participated in exhibitions
in Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Japan and France.
She has held several exhibitions in India and her paintings are in the
collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lalit Kala Akademi,
New Delhi, the Central Museum, Nagpur, and the Prince of Wales Museum,
Mumbai, as well as many institutional and private collections.
Prafulla
was the President of Bombay Art Society and Vice Chairman of the Artists'
Center, Mumbai. For last 30 years she has been on the committee of Kala
Akademi Goa, and presently is President of the Art Society of India. She
was a committee member of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, from 1974-79.
She has gained recognition for her murals, particularly those in ceramic,
wood and glass, which highlight many prominent buildings in Mumbai.
In addition to the visual arts, Prafulla is keenly interested in Indian
classical music. Married to a businessman and author, Mr. Dilip S. Dahanukar,
Prafulla has two daughters and three grandchildren very much interested
in art as herself.
IMPORTANT EXHIBITIONS
- 1956 First Exhibition of Paintings at Jehangir art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1959 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
- 1961 Foyer Des Artistes, Paris
- 1964 Shridharani Gallery Sponsored Madras, Delhi
- 1970 Excursion into the World of Ceramics Jehangir Art Gallery
- 1976 Birla Academy sponsored by Birla 1978 Sponsored by Indian High Commission at London
- 1980 Gallery '38', London
- 1982 'Unity in Diversity' two Exhibitions simultaneously of Paintings and Collages at Taj & Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1990 Sarala Art Gallery, Madras 2000 Mother & Child, Jehangir Art Gallery
GROUP SHOWS
- 1960 Exhibition at National Art Gallery, Australia
- 1961 Galerie Tedesco, Paris
- 1987 Art for CRY -Mumbai, Calcutta,
- 1987 Chetna Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1988 World Wild Fund for Nature
- 1989 World Wild Fund for Nature
- 1988 At Malbronn, W. Germany
- 1989 Prague, Checoslovakia 1989 Indian Oil Corporation
- 1990 Kala Akademy, Goa
- 1990 Calcutta Through The Eyes of Painter, Birla Academy
- 1990 Veteran Artists of India, Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi 1991 Tribute to Ambedkar
- 1992 Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
- 1993 Gallery Alka Karlsruhe, Germany
- 1993 6th Asian Art Biennale at Dacca, Bangladesh
- 1993 Helpage
- 1995 'Bombay', sponsored byR. P. G. Group
- 1997 50Year's Art in Mumbai, NGMA 2000 Art in the family, NGMA
JOINT SHOW
- 1986 Kala Academy, Goa. Inaugurated by late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
- 1987 Gallerie Du Beffroi Tours, France
