Osian's Auction Catalogue Creative India Series 1 Bengal | December 2011

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 287 286 Born : 30 July 1941, Dhuri, East Punjab, present-day Pakistan Died: 29 December 2008, New Delhi Education 1958-63 Studied at the School of Art, Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi 1964 London School of Printing, Warden, Essex, UK Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1975-77 Visiting Lecturer, College of Art, New Delhi 1981 Created the Film Poster for director Mani Kaul’s Satah Se Uthata Aadmi (Arising from the Surface), Cannes International Film Festival, France 1984 Collaborated on Anti-communal projects with Sahmat 1992 Designed ‘Yeh Bhumi’, a special issue of India Today published after demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya 1994 Curator, Exhibition by NGMA, in Syria 1995 Curator of Contemporary Indian Artists for NGMA, Egypt Created the Film Poster for director Shekhar Kapur’s ‘Bandit Queen’, Cannes International Film Festival, France Select Awards and Honours 1963 Sailoz Prize, New Delhi 1980 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1981 All India Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Chandigarh 2002 Meeting Manjit , film on Manjit Bawa directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta, received the National Award for Best Documentary Select Solo Exhibitions 1962 Government College of Art, Ludhiana 1969 Craven Terrace, London, UK 1970 Private Gallery, San Sebastian, Spain 1972-74 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1976 Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi 1977 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1979 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 1982 Art Museum, Washington DC, USA Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal 1984 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai 1991 Exhibition of Drawings, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai 1992 Images: The Poet and the Painter, CIMA, New Delhi The Subjective Eye, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay 1993 Roopankar Museum, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal 1993 Paintings by Manjit Bawa, Centre for Contemporary Art Trends and Images, Centre for International Modern Art 1993 Paintings and Sketches by Manjit Bawa, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1996 Gallery Espace, New Delhi 1996-97 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 1998 Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1999 Gallery Espace and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2001 ‘Heads’ , Sakshi Art Gallery and Sama’a in Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi & Mumbai 2004 Manjit Bawa: Recent works exhibition tour 2004, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2005 Mapping the Conscience 1980-2004, organized by Sakshi Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi 2011 Let’s Paint the Sky Red, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Select Group Exhibitions 1962-63 The Six, All India Fine Art & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1962-63 Annual Exhibitions, New Delhi Shilpi Chakra, New Delhi 1976 National Exhibition, New Delhi 1977 Gallery 26, Artists Forum, New Delhi Two Men Show, Gallery Black Partridge, New Delhi Art India 77, Lalit Kala Gallery, New Delhi Pictorial Space, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1978 Gallery 26, Artists Forum, New Delhi 1980 Miniature Format, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1982 Asian Art Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan Contemporary Indian Paintings, Festival of India, UK Art Museum, Washington DC, USA 1983 Seven Painters, Maurya Gallery, New Delhi 1984 Tokyo Biennale, Japan 1985 Five Painters, Turkey, Haly, Yugoslavia Grey Art Gallery, Festival of India, NewYork, USA 1986 Bharat Bhavan Biennale, Bhopal First Asian-European Art Biennale, Ankara, Turkey Second Biennale, Havana, Cuba 1987 Coups de Coeur, Geneva, Switzerland 1989 Timeless Art, Times of India, Bombay 1990 State of Art, Computer Paintings, Jehangir Art Gallery Exhibition of Drawings, Centre for Contemporary Art 1992 Nine Indian Contemporaries, Centre for Contemporary Art Carpets and Tapestries, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay 1993 Wounds, CIMA, Calcutta and NGMA, New Delhi 1994 Miniature Paintings, Silver Boxes, and Jewellery, conceived and designed by Bawa, Gallery Espace, New Delhi Miniatures, CIMA, Calcutta Drawings 94, Gallery Espace, New Delhi Exhibition of Indian Paintings by NGMA, Israel 1995 Hundred Years of Indian Art, curated by Geeta Kapur, NGMA, New Delhi 1996 Chamatkar, CIMA, London, UK 2011 Let’s Paint the Sky Red, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Manjit Bawa