Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Antiquities Modern Contemporary Fine Arts and Books | April 2017

270 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Education 1956 Studied at the Art Department, Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi, India 1958 Scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1960’s Founder Member, Group 1890 an Active Group of 12 Protesting Artists 1966 He Founded and edited a monthly Jornal on Art called “Contra” 1968-70 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, New Delhi, India 1969 International Jury, Sao Poulo Biennale, Sao Poulo, Brazil 1981-90 Founder Director, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India (Invited by the Government of Madhya Pradesh to set it up) Select Solo Exhibitions 1962 One Man Show, New Delhi, India 1964 One Man Show, New Delhi, India 1965 One Man Show, Watercolours, New Delhi, India Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (26 November - 04 December) First International Exhibition, Saigon, Vietnam 1966 Colour Geometry of Space, New Delhi, India 1969 One Man Show, New Delhi, India 1971 One Man Show, Shimla, India Paintings, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (11 - 23 October) 1972 Perceptions Series, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi, India (12 - 18 January) 1973 Homage to Kangra Valley, New Delhi, India Homage to Solzhenitsyn, New Delhi, India 1974 One Man Show, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India (February) 1975 One Man Show, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India One Man Show, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India 1976 One Man Show, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India One Man Show of Drawings, Bhopal, India One Man Show of Drawings, Natraj Gallery, New Delhi, India 1977 One Man Show, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India 1978 One Man Show, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India 1979 Paintings by J. Swaminathan, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India (16 February - 03 March) 1980 Exhibition of Paintings, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India (12 - 24 November) 1982 Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India 1984 Watercolours by J. Swaminathan, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (03 - 19 May) 1986 Exhibition of Paintings by J. Swaminathan, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1988 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India (26 March - 15 April) 1990 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India 1991 Recent Works, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (12 - 30 December) 1992 Recent Works, Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi, India (24 January - 24 February) Memorial, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi, India 1993 Paintings, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (15 October - 14 November) 1994 Obora, Montreal, Canada Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Kolkata, India 1994-95 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India 1995 Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, New Delhi, India 1995-96 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India 1996 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2008 Homage to Swaminathan, All India Fine Arts Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi, India (09 - 14 February) Select Group Exhibitions 1960 Three Man Show, New Delhi, India 1961 Two Man Show, New Delhi, India Opening Show, Kunika-Chemould Art Centre, New Delhi, India National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India 1962 Sailoz Mukherjea and his Pupils, New Delhi, India 1963 Group 1890 Exhibition, Inaugurated by Jawahar Lal Nehru, New Delhi, India Twenty Two Painters, Lucknow, India UNESCO Exhibition of Indian Graphics to Europe 1964 National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India Three Man Show of Drawings, New Delhi, India 1965 Art Now in India, Commonwealth Arts Festival, London, U.K. Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan 1966 Silpi Chakra Lending Library Show, New Delhi, India 1967 Seven Painters, London, U.K. Group Show, Kunika-Chemould Art Centre, New Delhi, India Silpi Chakra Group Show, New Delhi, India 1968 First Triennale India, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India Five Contemporary Painters, New Delhi, India 1969 Indian Painters ‘1969, Kolkata, India Group Show, Mumbai, India 1970 Indian Painters, Group Show, Zurich, Switzerland Indian Painters, Group Show,Tokyo, Japan 1973 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India 1976 Contemporary Indian Paintings, Perth, Australia 1978 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India 1986 1st National Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India 1987 Festival of India, Moscow, Russia 1988 2nd National Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India Festival of India, Takaoka Municipal Museum of Art and Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Seventeen Indian Painters, on occasion of 25 years of Gallery Chemould, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1997 Intuitive Logic: A Festival of Indian Contemporary Painting, Presented by The Tuli Foundation for Holistic Education & Art (HEART) at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai, India (01 March - 19 April) 2005 Ashta Nayak: Eight Pioneers of Indian Art, Aicon Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 2008 3 Masters Briefly, Akar Prakar, Kolkata, India Moderns, Organised by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in collaboration with Embassy of India, Amman at Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan 2008-09 Paz Mandala, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India 2009 In Search of the Vernacular, Aicon Gallery, New York, U.S.A. Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A. 2010 Manifestations IV, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Modern Folk: The Folk Art Roots of the Modernist Avant-Garde, Aicon Gallery, New York, U.S.A. From Miniature to Modern: Traditions in Transition, Rob Dean Art, London in association with Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Figure/Landscape - Part One, Aicon Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 2011 Masterclass, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, U.S.A. Manifestations V, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore Adbhutam: Rasa in Indian Art, Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, India 2012 Through the Ages: South Asian Sculpture and Painting from Antiquity to Modernism, Aicon Gallery, New York, U.S.A. Transits of a Wholetimer - J. Swaminathan, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India 2014 Immutable Gaze Part I: Masterpieces of Modern and Pre-Modern Indian Art, Aicon Gallery, New York, U.S.A. J. Swaminathan 1928-1994