Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern and Contemporary Art | January 2008

226 Select Biographies Nikhil Biswas b.22 April 1930 Calcutta, West Bengal d.10 November 1966 Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1949 Enrolled at Govt. College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta (Unfinished Diploma in Fine Arts) Select Solo Exhibitions 1954,59,60,61,62 Calcutta 1965 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (21-27 January) Drawings, Berlinz, Munich, West Germany Drawings and Rolling Pictures from India, Ministry of Culture of the German Democratic Republic, Dresden, Halle, Madgeburg 1967 JAG, Bombay Selection of Works from 1950-1966;Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (3-15 September) 1975 JAG, Bombay (28 February-6 March) 1978 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1987 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (Till 31 December) 1988 Chitrakoot Gallery, Calcutta (12-28 February) 1989 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1990 Art Heritage, New Delhi 1992 Om Gallery of Art, New Delhi (3-18 March) 1993 Alliance Française de Delhi, Galerie Romain Rolland, New Delhi,(15 January-6 February) 1994-5 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (15 December-1 January 1995) 2001 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata (23 January-4 February) Select Awards and Honours 1954 Mr. B M Birla’s Gold Medal for best work in sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1956 Gold Medal, Most important Modern Indian Painter, LKA, New Delhi Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata I Art Heritage, New Delhi I Ashish Anand and The Delhi Art Gallery I Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata I Ebrahim Alkazi and Art Heritage, New Delhi I Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi I H K Kejriwal Family Collection Prashant Tulysan, Kolkata I Halle Museum, Germany I Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai I Kito and Jane de Boer, Dubai, UAE I Mukund & Nirja Lath Family Collection, Jaipur I NGMA, New Delhi I Parshant Tulsiyan, Kolkata I Prakash and Soumitra Kejriwal I The Osian’s - Archive and Library Collection I Jyoti Bhatt b.12 March 1934 Bhavnagar, Gujarat Education 1950-56 Diploma, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University Baroda (First batch of students) 1953 Vanasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan 1957-59 National Scholarship to study Art under N.S. Bendre 1961-62 Italian Government Scholarship to study Painting and Etching at Academia di Belle Arti, Naples, Italy 1964-66 Fulbright and John D. Rockefeller III Grants to study Graphics and Printmaking at the Pratt Institute, New York 1985 Basics of Holography, UK Select Solo Exhibitions 1959, 61 International Biennale for the Young Artists, Paris 1963 Paintings, Bombay 1965-6 New York, New Jersey, USA 1967 Gallery Chemould, Bombay 1969 Painters with Camera, Bombay 1969 Sao Paulo Triennale, Brazil 1997 Walls and Floors the Living Traditions of Village India. An Exhibition of Photographs, IGNCA, New Delhi and NCPA, Mumbai 1998 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai. 1998 Multimedia - Art of the 90s, CIMA Art Gallery, Calcutta. 1999 National Center for Policy Analysis and the IGNCA, New Delhi 2000 Little Theatre, NCPA, Bombay 2004 ABS Bayer Gallery, Baroda. Select Awards and Honours 1957 President’s Golden Plaque, National Exhibition of Art, New Delhi 1957-59 BAS Award, Bombay 1961 Scholarship for the Govt of Italy 1963 National Award, LKA, New Delhi 1964-6 Fulbright Scholarship, USA and John D. Rockefeller III Grant, USA 1966 Gold Medal, International Print Biennale, Florence, Italy 1969 All India Graphic Art Exhibition Award 1972 Gold Medal, Third International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Florence, Italy 1972-3 First Prize for design of a postal stamp to mark the 25th anniversary of Indian Independence, New Delhi 1978 Prize at the World Photo Contest, West Germany 1988 Grand Prix, 13th Photo Contest for Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO, Tokyo, Japan 1996 Senior Fellowship, Ministry of Culture, Government of India 2000 Gujarat State Award, Ahmedabad 2004 Honorary Doctorate, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Select Collections Art Heritage, New Delhi I Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal I British Museum, London I Centre for Photography, National Center for Policy Analysis, Mumbai I Craft Museum, New Delhi I Delhi Art Gallery I Dusseldorf Art Museum I LKA New Delhi I Museum of Modern Art, New York I NGMA, New Delhi I Pheroza Godrej, Mumbai I Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York I Smith Sonnian Museum, Washington DC I The IGNCA, New Delhi I Uffizi Gallery, Florence I