Simply
Watercolours
short bios
Ki gallery, Kuala lampur,malasia
Artmusings gallery, Mumbai
Pundole gallery,Mumbai
Jamaat gallery,Mumbai
Hacienda gallery,Mumbai
Gallerie Ganesha, Delhi
Sumukha gallery, Bangalore
Renaissance gallery, Bangalore
Kalayatra gallery, Bangalore
Artworld gallery, Chennai
Sakshi gallery, Chennai
Apparao gallery, Chennai
Kashi gallery, Kochi
Kalapeedom gallery, Kochi
Zenit gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gaammelgaard art centre Copenhagen
Galllerie Varia, Basel, Switzerland
Cultural Forum, Lueneburg, Germamny
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS:-
8th &v 11th Triennale international Exhibition,
Delhi
Bharat Bhavan Biennale,
Bhopal - 1994 &1988
an evening at a friends and woke up under an Akbar Padamsee
watercolor. My love of watercolors had begun.
Working in small format and watercolors, my work is
the dance, poetry
and geometry of colors on different paper, its texture, its sensuality.
Has been a recipient of the prestigious Jackson PollockKrasner Foundation fellowship for painting from Newyork 2003 ,
British Royal Overseas Leagues Overseas award for painting from London 1997
Akademi National award (1992) and Akademi State award (2002) for painting ,
Senior Research fellowship for painting from Human Resource Development Board Govt Of India 2008-2010 ,
Junior Research fellowship for painting from Human Resource Development Board Govt Of India 1993 - 1995 ,
Christie's London Auction 2004, Bid and hammer auction 2008
Kerala Lalit Kala akademi Highly Commented awards for painting 1987,1991,1992
Participated in the Florence Biennale Italy 2005,
Scholarship for residency programme Germany 2006 ,
Exhibited with Damien Hirst,Banksy,Ian Davenport,Spencer Tunick,Peter Blake in London (2004)
Had shows in University of texas, Indian Embassy Berlin ,Ministry Of Culture Potsdam Germany ,
Millfield Summer Exhibition London ,Overseas Prize show College of Art Edinburgh ,R Street Gallery NewYork ,
Participated seven times in the National Lalit kala Akademi Annual Show ,
Participated in State ,Regional And National Camps ,
Famous for his impressionistic 'Badami Men and Women' in rural settings, Mani is also confident in several other genres. He experiments with landscape, figuration in landscape, abstraction, collage and even mural work using various media with versatility.
He has won awards from the Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi in 1981, 1983 and 1995. He also won an IFACS award for '50 Years of Indian Independence'. He has had many one-man shows in India, and has exhibited in London, New York and Hong Kong. He has participated in numerous group shows, art camps and workshops, Indian and international. His paintings are in collections such as the Karnataka and Central Lalit Kala Akademis; HSBC, Bangalore; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, RCI India and The Oberoi Hotels among many others in here and abroad. He lives and works in Bangalore.
selected solo exhibitions:
Gallery of Contemporary East African Art,
National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya. 1992, 1993
“Face to Face”, Arhus, Denmark, 1993
“Cosmic Vibrations”, French Cultural Centre, Nairobi, Kenya. 1995
“Art Of Africa 95”, Gallery Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund, Denmark.1995
“Incantations” Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai, India. 1996
“Lotus Zone”, Kichaka Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya.1996
“Crosscurrents”, French Cultural Centre, Nairobi, Kenya. 1997
“Mystic Echoes” , Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai, India. 1998
“Lotus Sutra”, Meghraj Gallery, London, England. 1999
“Roots & Wings”, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India. 1999
“Mirrors Of The Mind”, French Cultural Centre, Nairobi,Kenya, 2000
“Orientations / Disorientations”, Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai, India,
April 2001
“Masquerades” Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India, October 2002
“Masquerades” Gallery Art Chamber , Galeria des Bellas Artes, Goa,
India, Feb-March 2003
“Zone Lotus” Ramoma, Nairobi, Kenya. 28 April-26 May 2005
“Meditations” Ramoma , Nairobi, Kenya. 21st January -8th February
2006
“Figments and Fantasies”,Alliance Francaise Gallery,Nairobi, Kenya,
2007
“Spirit” Ramoma, Nairobi Kenya. Recent mixed-media Artworks &
Paintings, June 24th July 29 2009
Born in Goa. Graduated in Painting through the University
of Bombay.
Yolanda's style of creating a ceramic like effect on canvas with relief and
high gloss has become her trade mark She enjoys working with watercolours
too .She selects her medium as per the feeling of the subject Her works are
in collections in India and abroad.
She has so far to her credit TEN SOLO SHOWS in Goa,Mumbai Bangalore and the
most recent in Montreal Canada apart from
FORTY GROUP SHOWS in Italy,Tashkent, Moscow, Korea, Goa, London, Hydarabad,
Delhi, Kolkota & Bangalore,
over the last few years has established himself as one of the finest artists in the country. His works adorn the homes of collectors in India, England, Germany, Poland, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Malaysia and the USA. He is also represented in important corporate collections.
Milind's paintings are variously described as “...a raw impulsive release natural flow of colours”. Viewers have felt that his works are as “tempestuous as magical reality, vivid, fevered. Having the flow of an uninterrupted song”.
now lives in Mumbai; ealier he graduated from GovernmentCollege of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata with a first-class-first. Since the college annual exhibition in 1988 he has continued to show his work in Kolkata at the Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Art-Age Gallery, Sanskriti Art Gallery, Tata Centre and Academy of Fine Arts, Art Chamber Goa, Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai and more widely in the U.K., in London, Oxford and Scotland.
His work has been a prominent part of a number of group shows in Mumbai as well as in Kolkata. He was awarded a merit from Bombay Art Society and has frequently received awards from the Government College.of.Arts.and.Crafts. Heis known for his atmospheric water colors depicting scenes in the city of Kolkata and the surrounding countryside. The villages of Bengal, including Santiniketan, are familiar subjects as well as scenes in Orissa, Rajasthan and elsewhere in India. In the autumn of the year 2000 his work is showing in London, Oxford andHampton, near Carlisle, UK
