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171 BIOGRAPHIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES BIKASH BHATTACHARJEE b. 21 June 1940, Calcutta, West Bengal. Education Studied under the tutelage of Arun Bose. 1963 Diploma in Fine Arts, Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship, Calcutta. Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1964 Member, Society for Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1968-72 Lecturer, Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship, Calcutta 1973-82 Lecturer, Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta Member, General Council and Executive Board, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Commissioned for Portraits of Shri N. Sanjeeva Reddy, Shri Vithal Bhai Patel (Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha), Shrimati Indira Gandhi (Raj Bhavan, Calcutta), Shri Rajiv Gandhi (Central Hall, Lok Sabha, New Delhi). Commissioned for Painting of heroes of Bengal, The Homage , Gujarat Ambuja Cement Company Ltd. Solo Exhibitions 1965 Artistry House, Calcutta Tata Iron and Steel Company, Jamshedpur 1971 Doll Series , Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Doll Series , Kunika-Chemould, New Delhi Tata Iron and Steel Company, Jamshedpur 1973 U.S.I.S., Calcutta 1974 Gallery Chemould 1976 Gallery Chemould 1977 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 1979 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 1980 Gallery Chemould, Calcutta 1982 Calcutta Art Gallery, Calcutta Recent Paintings , Gallery Chemould, Bombay (7–21 October) 1984 Retrospective , Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (26 January– 4 February) 1986 She , Taj Art Gallery, Bombay She , Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1987 Environs , Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta (October) Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1989 Sabari , Galerie 88, Calcutta (9–24 September) Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1990 The Boy , Galerie 88, Calcutta (12–22 August) Durga , Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta (2–13 May) 1991 Homage , Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta Kala Yatra, Bangalore 1992 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay 1993 Recent Works , Galerie 88, Calcutta (21–27 April) Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi & Galerie 88, Calcutta (14–17 May) 1994 Recent Works , Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay Recent Works , CIMA, Calcutta (18–24 January) 1997 Recent Works , Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta (26 April–11 May) 1998 Reflections , Galerie 88, Calcutta Remembrance , Park Hotel, New Delhi (10–13 February) 2000 Centre of International Modern Art Gallery, Calcutta (1–20 February) 2002 Early Drawings , Galerie 88, Kolkata (22 September–19 October) Awards & Honours 1962 Academy of Fine Arts Award, Calcutta 1971 The Totem , National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1972 Man on the Swing , National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1987 Banga Ratna (Foreign Award, Bangladesh) 1988 Padmashree, Government of India 1990 Shiromoni Purashkar, Asian Paints Nivedita Puraskar, Ramkrishna Vivekananda Ashram Select Collections Chandigarh University Museum Chitrakala Parishath Museum, Bangalore Ebrahim Alkazi & Art Heritage, New Delhi Harsh Goenka & RPG Enterprises, Mumbai Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Ministry of Education, Government of India Masanori Fukuoka & Glenbarra Art Museum, Hemeji [Japan] National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Osian’s - Connoisseurs of Art Archive Park Hotel, Kolkata Punjabi University, Patiala Rakhi & Aveek Sarkar, Kolkata Raj Bhavan, Kolkata Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal Select Bibliography Books Drawings by Fourteen Contemporary Artists of Bengal . Calcutta: Priti Mukherjee & Bhawani Mullick 1970. (np) Indian Art Since The Early 40’s A Search For Identity. Madras: Artists’ Handicrafts Association 1974. (p.140) Sheikh, Gulam m. New Contemporaries . Bombay: Marg Publications 1976. (np) Jehangir Art Gallery. Indian Painting Today 1981 . Bombay 1981. (pp.17–9) Kala Yatra. Contemporary Indian Painting & Sculpture . Madras 1982. (np) Jehangir Art Gallery. Indian Drawing Today 1987 . Bombay 1987. [Text: Pranabranjan Ray] (pp.31–3) Bickelmann, Ursula & Nissim Ezekiel (Eds.). Artists Today: East-West Visual Arts Encounter . Bombay: Marg 1987. (pp.21–4) Gupta, R.P. (Ed.). Visions: Paintings and Sculptures by Somnath Hore, Ganesh Pyne, Bikash Bhattacharjee and Jogen Chowdhury . Calcutta: Ladies Study Group & Centre of International Modern Art 1990. (pp.51–68) Jakimowicz-Karle, Marta. Bikash Bhattacharjee . Kala Yatra. Bangalore 1991. Sengupta, Kajal & Sohini Sen (Eds.). Society of Contemporary Artists Calcutta Album 1960–1991 . Calcutta: Society of Contemporary Artists 1991. (np) Chawla, Rupika. Surface and Depth: Indian Artists at Work . New Delhi: Viking 1995. (pp.70–3) Sadwelkar, Baburao. Contemporary Indian Painters 1996 Associated with Jehangir Art Gallery . Bombay: Jehangir Art Gallery 1996. (pp.47 &151) Tuli, Neville. The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: