Osian's Auction Catalogue Masterpieces and Museum-Quality III | March 2004

211 BIOGRAPHIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES SHIBU NATESAN b. 1966, Vakkom, Trivandrum, Kerala Education 1982-7 B.F.A. (Painting), College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, Kerala 1989-91 M.A. (Printmaking), Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1991 Participated in ‘Images and Words’, an exhibition by artists to protest against communalism, Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda 1993 Participated in an exhibition in aid of earthquake victims, Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda 1994 Participated in a seminar and workshop on printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda 1996-7 Invited as Artist-in-Residence by Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam Solo Exhibitions 1987 Drawings, Fine Arts Faculty, Trivandrum 1995 Futility of Device, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay Futility of Device, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda 1997 Linkage, Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Amsterdam SURENDRAN NAIR b . 1956, Onakkoor, Kerala Education 1975-81 Diploma in Painting, College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, Kerala 1981-2 B.F.A. (Painting), College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, Kerala 1983-6 Post-Graduate Diploma (Graphics), Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1992 Invited by the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Arts, Oxford, as Artist-in- Residence for three months on a Charles Wallace scholarship 1996 Artist-in-the-Community, U.W.S. Macathur and the Casula Power House, Sydney, Australia 1996-7 Participated in ‘Fire and Life’ an Exchange Residency Project organised by Asia Link with Jon Cattapan in India and Australia 1999 International residency programme, Noosa Regional Council, Noosa, Australia Solo Exhibitions 1986 Graphic Prints , Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi, Ernakulam 1989 Landscapes & Other Drawings , Vithi, Baroda Drawings, Graphics & Paintings, C.M.C. Art Gallery, New Delhi 1991 Paintings & Drawings, Gallery 7, Bombay 1995 Paintings & Drawings, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay 1996 The Labyrinth of Eternal Delight, Cambelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney 1997 The Labyrinth of Eternal Delight, Nazar Gallery, Baroda Atelier 2221, New Delhi 1997-8 Corollary Mythologies: Recent Works, Sakshi Gallery, Bomba y Select Bibliography Books Sheikh, Gulam m. (Ed.). Contemporary Art in Baroda . New Delhi: Tulika 1997. [Research & Documentation: Belinder Dhanoa. Contributor: A. Rajadhyaksha] (pp. 224, 244, 247 & 256–257) Vadehra Art Gallery. Indian Contemporary Art Post-Independence. New Delhi: 1997. [Essays by Y. Dalmia, E. Datta, C. Sambrani, M. Jakimowicz-Karle & S. Datta]. (p.58) Khanna, Balraj & Aziz Kurtha. Art Of Modern India . London: Thames and Hudson 1998. (pp.44 & 124) Mehta, Anupa (Ed.) A Collector’s Eye: The Jehangir Nicholson Collection – Selected Works . Bombay: 1998. (pp.57 & 94) Kapur, Geeta. When Was Modernism . New Delhi: Tulika 2000. (pp.389–91) Sinha, Gayatri (Ed.) . Indian Art: An Overview . New Delhi: Rupa & Co 2003. [Essays by Dr. Shivaji K. Panikkar, Prof. Jyoti Bhatt, Ranjit Hoskote and Roobina Karode] (pp.125, 164, 207 & 229) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Sakshi Gallery. Surendran Nair 1995 . Bombay. HEART/Tuli. Intuitive-Logic II . Bombay1997. (L184) Sakshi Gallery. Corollary Mythologies. Recent Works 1997-8. Bombay 1998. Osian’s/Tuli. India: the Passionate Detachment . Mumbai 2001. (L19 & L179) Osian’s/Tuli. A Historical Mela. The ABC Of India. The Art, Book & Cinema . Mumbai 2002. (L118) Osian’s/Tuli. Figurative Non-Figurative Narration . Mumbai 2003. (L121)