In the foundation of my artistic endeavors, I have been consumed with the constant urge, to deliver and sustain my expression, which through my painting years have strived to advance contemporary articulation.
    My work records body culture, and its corroboration within the articulation of signs and symbols. Signs and symbols for me offer infinite possibilities to explore the inherent associations present in the animate and inanimate subject. As subjects of contention and thereby forms of expression and understanding, as I believe they cut across the world wide cultural divide of confusion and acrimony. Arriving and contributing into a profound and perceptive communion.
    For me signs and symbols manifest themselves, in a state of cultural pluralism, wherein the archetypal figuration is reflected, recognized and regained, through the environs of the imagined and real. All this and more... steered deep in, the faith in art and the covenant of picture making.
    Pictures that evolve in continuum, of significant images of my time, engaging in a world view of pluralism, and yet the singular...

                                                                    -Théodore Mariano Mesquita
                                                                     February 2000

R É S U M É

1967 - 4th of July, born in, Panjim, Goa.

ACADEMIC DEGREES .
1988 - Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts of the University of Bombay, from Goa College of Art. Dissertation on the topic “Biogenesis: Perception and Elucidation in Painting”.
1990 - Masters Degree in Painting of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Dissertation on the topic “ Roland Brooks Kitaj and the Post-Modern: Contemporary Trends in the Mainstream
1960 TO 1990”. - Residency in Drawing & Painting of three months at AR.CO Centro de Arte e Communicaco Visual, Lisbon, Portugal.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1989 - Conducted workshops in art for school students, at Don Bosco High School, Panjim -Goa
1992 - IPCL High School in Raigad, Maharashtra.
1994 - Conducted drawing workshop for under graduate students in ‘concepts of drawing’, at Kerela Kalapeetom in Cochin, Kerela.
1990-94 - Lectured in Drawing and Painting, in the Department of Painting at Goa College of Art, Panjim - Goa, as visiting faculty in the subjects of Fundamental Design, Colour Theory, Drawing, Pictorial Composition and Creative Painting for the classes of IInd, IIIrd, IVth and Vth year painting. 1991-94 - Paper setter and examiner in the subjects of Pictorial Design and Creative Painting for the classes of IInd and IVth year painting.

SOLO EXHIBITION
1998 - “WORLD WITHOUT END”, exhibition of digital lithographs at Fundação Oriente art gallery, Goa.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1985-89 - Synchronicity Group Exhibitions, Goa.
1986-88 - Kala Academy’s, State Art Exhibitions, Goa. 1987&90 - I.N.T.A.C.H. Contemporary Indian Art, Goa.
1990 - Synchronicity: Inaugural Art Exhibition, Chaze Center for the Arts & Crafts, Goa.
3rd Bharath Bhavan Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art, Bhopal, M.P.
Group Show, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University of Baroda.
1991 - “1st Independent Art Exhibition”, The Goan Art Forum, Goa.
All India Art Exhibition, Vijaya Fine Art Society, Gadag, Karnataka.
“Contemporary 91: The Art Exhibition”, The Goan Art Forum, Goa.
1992&95 - All India Fine Arts Exhibition, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore.
1992 -“Inside Moves”, Trio Art Exhibition, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay.
100th All India Art Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Bombay.
1993 - “Three Artist From Baroda”, presented by Galerie 88, Calcutta. (on invitation)
“Light Sense”, Trio Photography Exhibition, Kala Academy Art Gallery, Goa.
“Collections From The Goan Art Forum”, Kerala Kalapeetom, Cochin, Kerala.
Group Exhibition, Malaya Kalagramam, New Mahe, Kerala.
All India Art Exhibition, Individual Cultural Center, Jammu.
1994 - “Six Contemporaries From Goa”, Chitram Art Gallery, Cochin, Kerala. - “Continuum”, Art Exhibition, The Goan Art Forum, Goa.
“Circa: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art”, The Goan Art Forum & Chaze Art Gallery, Margao & Panjim, Goa.
1995 - “The Goan Art Forum”, presented by Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay, (on invitation)
3rd Bharath Bhavan International Exhibition of Prints at C.I.M.A. -Art Gallery, Calcutta.
1996 - “hanumankamblibaijuparthancharuduttaprabhudesaiquerozitide
souzawilsond’souzatheodore- mesquita”, The Goan Art Forum & Alliance Francaise Art Gallery, Goa. (on invitation)
“States Of Minds”, Duo Art Exhibition, The Goan Art Forum & The Chaze Art Gallery, Goa.
6th Bhavan Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art, Bhopal, M.P. ( on invitation)
1997 - “Art Access Week”, Birla Academy of art and culture. (on invitation).
“Intuitive Logic II”, exhibition and auction of contemporary Indian Art, Heart Foundation, Mumbai and Delhi (on invitation).
“The Goan Art Forum” exhibition of graphic prints, Atelier 2221, New Delhi. (on invitation).
The Minature Format Show
1998, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai. (on invitation).
“Fado” exhibition of artist from Goa, Jamat Art Gallery, Mumbai. (on invitation)
“Tempestivus” exhibition of ‘The Goan Art Forum’ at Casa Goa, Calangute.
“A Man of Sorrows-Jesus Christ” National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai. (on invitation)
5th Harmony Show, Nerhu Center, Mumbai. (on invitation)

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
1991 - 1st International Expo of Postal Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 5th International Biennial Print Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan. 1992 - 17th International Independante Exhibitions of Prints, Kanagawa, Japan.
1993 - “Graphica Creativa”- 7th International Print Triennial, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland.(on invitation)
1993 - 1st Egyptian International Print Triennial, National Center of Fine Arts & Ministry of Culture, Giza, Egypt.(on invitation)
1994 - 4th International Art Triennial, Majdanek, Lublin, Poland.
1995 - 3rd Bharath Bhavan International Biennial of Prints, Bhopal, India. - 18th International Independante Exhibitions of Prints, Kanagawa, Japan.
9th International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulguria.
19th International Independante Exhibitions of Prints, Kanagawa, Japan.
4th Bharath Bhavan International Biennial of Prints, Bhopal, India. - Exhibition of Graphics, Fundação Julio Resende, Lugar do Desenho, Porto, Portugal. (on invitation)
1999 - 1st Novosibirsk International contemporary graphic biennial, Novosibirsk, Russia.
3rd Egyptian International Print Triennial, National Center of Fine Arts & Ministry of Culture, Giza, Egypt (on invitation). 2000 - 2nd International Small Engraving Salon, Florean Museum, Carbunari, Romania. (on invitation).

ARTIST CAMPS (on invitation)
1991 - 7th Triennial, Lalit Kala Akademi’s - International Painters Camp, Dona Paula, Goa.
1992 - I.P.C.L. All India Painters Camp, Raigad, Maharashtra. “Searching Encounters”, Organised by Naquab, Panjim, Goa. 1999 - 6th Artist Camp of the Arts Trust, Ceat Beach House, Marve.

AWARDS
1987&88 - 1st Prize in Kala Academy’s State Art Exhibitions for two consecutive years, Panjim, Goa.
1988-90 - Post-Graduate Scholarship from Kala Academy, Goa.
1993-95 - National Fellowship, Ministry of Human Resources & Department of Culture, Government of India.
1997 - Travelling Grant, to Portugal and Holland, Fundacao Oriente, Portugal.
1998 - Fundacao Oriente Bursary, Lisbon, Portugal.

ARTISTIC WORK AND EXPERIENCE
1986 - Founder Member of SYNCHRONICITY, a group of young artist dedicated to the spreading of art awareness in Goa through regular art related activities. The group exhibited for four consecutive years, the first exhibition being SPECTRUM. 1987
The second being BLACK & WHITE. 1988
The third being EXPRESSIONS. 1989
The fourth and last titled SYNCHRONICITY 1991
Co-founded THE GOAN ART FORUM, the premier art organisation consisting of art educators, theoreticians and artist, under the sincere and dedicated conviction to initiate, promote and propagate the development of contemporary art in Goa. I have co-ordinated The Goan Art Forum’s fourteen consecutive art exhibitions, they are as follows:
Ist INDEPENDENT ART EXHIBITION & CONTEMPORARY’91
1992 - BACKYARD RITUAL - national exhibition of art.
1993 - COLLECTIONS FROM THE GOAN ART FORUM, Kerala Kalapeetom in Kerala.
1994 - SIX CONTEMPORARIES FROM GOA, Chitram art gallery, Kochi, Kerala. - CONTINUUM.
A LIFE IN ART - retrospective exhibition on prints of K.S.Vishwambhara.
CIRCA - exhibition of contemporary Indian art.
1995 - MEMORIAS DE GOA, in collaboration with Portuguese Consulate, Goa, exhibition of Portuguese artist A. Santos.
TERRA FIRMA, exhibition of sculpture of students from Baroda and Bangalore.
THE GOAN ART FORUM, presented by Cymroza art gallery, Bombay.
1996 - HANUMAN KAMBLI, exhibition of graphic prints. MEASUREMENT, VALUE, MEANING, exhibition of Baiju Parthan.
THE GOAN ART FORUM, in collaboration with Alliance Francaise de Goa.
STATES OF MINDS, duo exhibition of T.M.Mesquita and Charudutta Prabhudesai.
1996-97 - Curated a series of Five conceptual art exhibitions from the Institute Menezes Braganza art gallery, to commemorate the institutes 125th anniversary celebrations. 1999 - TEMPESTIVUS, exhibition of contemporary Goan art, Casa Goa.
Founder Member & Hon. secretary of The Goan Art Forum, Panjim, Goa, India.
Corresponding member Institute Menezes Braganza, Panjim, Goa, India.

Works in many private and public collections in India and abroad, including in:
Novosibirsk Art Museum - Russia.
Majdanek State Museum -Poland.
Tama Art University - Tokyo, Japan.
Universal Graphic Museum - Egypt.
Santa Cecelia University -Brazil.
Kanagawa Perfecture Art Gallery - Kanagawa, Japan.
Lalit Kala Akademi - New Delhi.
World Trade Center - Bombay.
India Petrochemical Corporation Ltd. - Gujarat.
Kala Academy - Panjim, Goa.
Heart Foundation - Mumbai.
Fundacao Oriente - Panjim, Goa.
The Arts Trust - Mumbai.

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