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

Born: 21 June 1940, Calcutta, West Bengal Died: 18 December 2006, Calcutta Education Studied under the tutelage of Arun Bose 1958-63 Diploma (Painting), Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship, Calcutta Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1964 Member, Society for Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1968-72 Lecturer (Fine Art Dept.), Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship, Calcutta 1973-82 Lecturer, Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta Member, General Council and Executive Board, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Select Awards and 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 Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1987 Banga Ratna (Foreign Award, Bangladesh) 1988 Padma Shri, Government of India 1989 Shiromoni Puraskar, Asian Paints 1990 Nivedita Puraskar, Ramkrishna Vivekananda Ashram 2004 Fellowship, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Life Time Achievement Award, Doordarshan, Kolkata 2006 D.Litt, Kalyani University, West Bengal Select 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 1973 United States Information Centre, Calcutta 1974 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 1984 Retrospective, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1986 She, Taj Art Gallery, Bombay She, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1987 Environs, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Environs, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay Oils by Bikash, Taj Hotel, Mumbai 1989 Sabari, Galerie 88, Calcutta Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay Durga, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1990 The Boy, Galerie 88, Calcutta 1990 Durga II, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1991 Homage, Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta Kala Yatra, Bangalore 1992 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay 1993 Recent Works, Galerie 88, Calcutta 1994 Recent Works, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay Recent Works, Centre of International Modern Art, Calcutta 1997 Recent Works, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1998 Reflections, Galerie 88, Calcutta Remembrance, The Park, New Delhi 2000 Bikash 2000, Centre of International Modern Art Gallery, Calcutta 2002 Early Drawings, Galerie 88, Kolkata Select Group Exhibitions 1968 First International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1970 Exhibitions inYugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia & Hungary 1971 Second International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1972 25 Years of Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Third International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1976 All India Drawing Exhibition, New Delhi 1978 Pictorial Space, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1980 Miniature Format, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1981 Indian Paintings Today, Bombay 1982 Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK India: Myth and Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA Fifth International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1985 Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Painting and Sculpture Bikash Bhattacharjee & S. Nandagopal, organized by Kala Yatra, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore East-West Visual Encounter, Bombay Grey Art Gallery, NewYork, USA 1986 Visions, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Festival of India, NewYork & Boston (USA); Geneva (Switzerland); Moscow (USSR) 1988 Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta (15 September) 1993 Wounds, organised by CIMA; NGMA, New Delhi Trends and Images, CIMA, Calcutta 1994 Contemporary Miniatures, CIMA 1996 Chamatkara, CIMA & Whiteley’s Gallery, London, UK 1998 Multimedia, Centre of International Modern Art, Kolkata Bikash Bhattacharjee