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

Born: 1 July 1936, Jamalpur, present-day Bangladesh Education 1952-56 B.A. (Fine Arts), Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1957-63 Senior Artist, Archaeology Dept., Govt. of India, Ajanta Caves, Aurangabad 1964-93 Reader at Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta Visiting Professor, Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan 1969 Attended a Fresco camp organised by Lalit Kala Akademi (New Delhi) at Vanasthali University, Rajasthan 1972 Mosaic Mural, Indian Tube Company, Jamshedpur 1985 Mosaic Mural, Town Hall, Agartala Municipality, Agartala 1994 Artists Camp, TISCO, Jamshedpur 1994-95 Artists Camps, Mayo College, Ajmer Select Awards and Honours 1953-55 Silver Medals, Calcutta University Institute, Calcutta 1955 Cash prize from Latham Foundation, USA 1956 R.N. Chakravarty Memorial Gold Medal, Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta 1955-57 Gold Medals, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1961 Award, Ministry of Health, Government of India 1963,4,6 Gold Medals, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1970 Rabindra Bharati Award, Calcutta Gold Medal, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1991 Shiromani Purashkar, Government of India 1996 Award by Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children, New Delhi for ‘Frogs and A Snake’ Two documentary films on Ganesh Haloi by Samir Dutta for Doordarshan and by Prasanta Daw, commissioned by the Government of West Bengal for its State Archives Select Solo Exhibitions 1962 Artistry House, Calcutta 1967 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1987 Metascape Ganesh Haloi, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1989 Ganesh Haloi 1989, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1992 Conflict 1992, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1993 Ganesh Haloi - Paintings, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta Ganesh Haloi - Gouache, Jehangir Art gallery (JAG), Bombay Ganesh Haloi 1995 Ganesh Haloi - Recent Works, Centre of International Modern Art, (CIMA), Kolkata 1996 Ganesh Haloi, ABC Art Gallery, Varanasi Gallery Espace, New Delhi Gallery Lakereen, Mumbai 1997 Ganesh Haloi, Recent Works in Gouache, Gallery Espace, New Delhi 1998 Impressions of Rajasthan in Gouache by Ganesh Haloi, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1999 Ganesh Haloi, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 2000 Ganesh Haloi - Transcendental Landscapes, Lakereen Art Gallery, Mumbai Ganesh Haloi - Uncertainty In Certainty - A Journey, Societé Asiatique of Multiple Art & Artists, Gurgaon (Curator Manjit Bawa) Ganesh Haloi - Uncertainty In Certainty - A Journey, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata 2006 Steps That Seek, Akar Prakar, Kolkata Select Group Exhibitions 1967-95 Annual Exhibitions, Birla Academy of Art & Culture (BAAC), Calcutta Gold Medals, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta Bengal Painters Present, BAAC, Calcutta All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1971-95 Annual Exhibitions, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1979 British Paints Decor Service, Calcutta 1980 Four Painters from Bengal, British Paints Decor Service, Calcutta 1981 Four Contemporary Artists of Calcutta, JAG, Bombay 1986 Dialogue, JAG, Bombay 1988-95 Annual Exhibitions, Gallerie 88, Calcutta 1990 Bengal Art Today, JAG, Bombay 1990-95 Gallery Ganesha, New Delhi 1991 Indian Contemporary Artists - Multiculturalism & Internationalism through Art, Melbourne, Australia 1992 Indian Contemporary Art, organised by Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Dhaka, Bangladesh 1993 Wounds, CIMA, Calcutta & National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (NGMA), New Delhi 1994 Trends & Images, CIMA, Calcutta Indian Contemporary Art, Gallery Maya, Hong Kong 1995 Paintings - India, Korea, Japan, Japan & Korea Autumn Exhibition, organised by CIMA (Calcutta); All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi Bose Pacia Modern, NewYork, USA Bombay: An Artist’s Impression, JAG, Bombay Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Chitram Art Gallery, Cochin 2005 Ganesh Haloi & Prabhakar Kolte - As Within So Without, Art Musings, Mumbai