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Exhibitions 5th - 7th March 2010 - Solo Exhibition of paintings 'Camouflage', at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U., Vadodara click May 21st 2009 - 24th May 2009 - Group show 'View Between the Trees', hosted by NeoKala.com, The Online Gallery, at Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore December 19th 2008 – January 29th 2009- Group show 'Once upon a Time' at TSAR ‘The Strand Art Room’, Colaba, Mumbai click May 2007 - Exhibited painting at juried show titled 'I/WE: Case Studies' curated by Avantika Bava at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)-Atlanta, Defoor Centre in Atlanta, Georgia from May 17-27, 2007. June 2006 - Painting exhibited at 'Some of Our Own' a summer exhibition hosted by a leading US law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York (Displayed from June - September 2006) click June 2006 - Part of a group exhibition at 'Chapelle Saint Saveur, Place Corentin Celton', Paris, From 19th to 25th May 2006 organized by Media India, Paris and Art Mantram, Bangalore. Thereafter paintings were exhibited at different venues in Paris. April 2006
- Exhibited paintings at 'Thought Fox - the design Collaborative'
(www.thoughtfox.net) - Open studios, Malleshwaram, Bangalore 1998 to 1999 - Paintings exhibited at the Crimson Art Gallery, Bangalore, India March 1998 - Paintings exhibited at 'OJUS' - an exhibition of paintings from 2nd - 10th March and sculptures by a 5 member group at the Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, India.Click to read review Art Camps December 2007 - Art Camp at Kara Ghoda, Kutch, Gujarat; organised by Ranjit Contractor 18th - 21st 2006 - Took part in a 6 group painting camp in Paris organized by Media India, Paris & Art Mantram, Bangalore January- May 2006 - Worked at 'Thought Fox - the design Collaborative' - studio at Malleshwaram, Bangalore October, 1997
- Mural co-designed at the Air Force Officers Mess, Vishwavihar
Campus, Bangalore, India August 1997-
Participant, 3 Day Workshop on Architecture and Visual Art,
organized by the Forum for Urban Design, Built -Heritage Architecture
and Visual Arts, Tirthahalli, Karnataka July 1997
- Resource Person, 5 Day Workshop on Painting, organized by the
Indian Institute of Fine Arts, Vidyaranyapura, Bangalore Educational Qualifications Masters in Fine Arts (M.F.A) specializing in Art Criticism from the MS University, Baroda, India, 2000 - Produced a thesis on Art Historian and Orientalist "A.K. Coomaraswamy and the Politics of Representation" (with a special focus on the 'Sati' ritual, a widow burning ritual in India and visuals on this topic) Bachelor of Fine
Arts (B.F.A) specializing in Painting from the Chitrakala
Parishath, Bangalore, India, 1998
Professional Experience
2000 (Oct) to 2006 (May) - Art Representative with Saffronart (www.saffronart.com), a portal company that promotes contemporary Indian art worldwide. Saffronart is headquartered in Mumbai, India. I worked as a Bangalore City Representative in south India. My role involved sourcing art works from galleries and identifying artists to enable online sales / auctions of paintings. I also handled logistical matters such as the shipment of paintings to the head office in Mumbai. October 2003 - September 2006 - Worked as a consultant for MAHITI (www.mahiti.org) on a project that dealt with research and documentation of 'Information Communication & Technology' in the small-scale sector and support organisations including Bangalore and the rest of Karnataka. The project was in colloboration with the University of Manchester. It involved traveling to various locations in Karnataka, and interviewing numerous entrepreneurs from various sectors following which I documented them, and these case studies are published in 'Hand Books' produced as a result of these studies. June 2000 to July 2000 - Contract Creative Art Consultant for CDS International Limited, Bangalore where I, among other assignments, designed websites
Writing and Publications
2000 to 2009 - Authored a number of art-related articles on contemporary art for various publications including:
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