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

223 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 Select Solo Exhibitions 1986 Graphic Prints, Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi, Ernakulam 1989 Landscapes and Other Drawings, Vithi,Baroda Drawings, Graphics and Paintings, C.M.C. Art Gallery, New Delhi 1991 Paintings and Drawings, Gallery 7, Bombay 1995 Paintings and 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 by Surendran Nair – 1997– 1998, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay 1999 The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 2002 Capital and Karma - Recent Positions in Indian Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, Select Awards and Honours 1992 Invited by the Ruskin School of Drawing and 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 Select Collections ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection SURENDRAN NAIR b. 1956 Onakkoor, 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 1996-97 Artist-in-Residence, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam Select Teaching and 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 Select 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 1998 Missing, Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda Nature Morte, New Delhi 1999 Missing, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2001-2 Paintings, Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Amsterdam Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore 2003 Small format works , Shibu Natesan and Baiju Parptihan, Art Musings (8–16 November) 2005 Existence of Instinct, organized by Sakshi Gallery at Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi 2005 Vision Unlimited, Grosvenor Gallery, London, UK 2007 Each One Teach One, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Select Awards and Honours 1991 C.R. Das Gupta Gold Medal, M.S. University, Baroda 1996 UNESCO Aschberg Bursary for a year 1996 Uriot Prize, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam Select Collections ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection SHIBU NATESAN b. 1966 Vakkom, Trivandrum Dis., Kerala