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ARPITA SINGH
Publication

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), Retrospective, New Delhi, India
2018 Talwar Gallery, Tying down time II, New York, NY, US
2017 Talwar Gallery, Tying down time, New York, NY, US
2014 Lalit Kala Akademi, Other Narratives / Other Structures, New Delhi, India
2010 Vadehra Art Gallery, Cobweb, New Delhi, India
1997 Gallery Chemould, Selected Works, Mumbai, India
1996 Centre for International Modern Art, Kolkata, India
1993 Foundation for Indian Artists, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1992 Center for Contemporary Art, New Delhi, India
1985 Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
1976 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1975 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
1972 Kunika Chemould Gallery, New Delhi, India
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), Is it what you think?, New Delhi, India
2013 Museo Nacional de Centro Reina Sofia, Construction and Individual Mythology, Madrid, Spain
Peabody Essex Museum, Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence, Salem, MA, US
Cleveland Institute of Art, Men in Isolation, Cleveland, OH, US
2012 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Japan
National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Iconography in the 20th Century, Mumbai, India
2011 Harmony Art Foundation, Fabular Bodies: New Narratives in the Art of the Miniature, Mumbai, India
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art
from the collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin
, Atlanta, GA, US
2009 Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art, Boston, MA, US
2008 Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM) & Casa Asia, Modern India, Valencia, Spain
Royal Cultural Centre, Moderns, Amman, Jordan
2007 Kunstmuseum Bern, Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art, Switzerland
Rose Art Museum, Tiger by the Tail: Women Artists in India Transforming Culture,
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA & Travel
2002 Sahmat @Rabindra Bhavan, Ways of Resisting, New Delhi, India
1997 National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), The Self and the World, New Delhi, India
National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Image-Beyond Image: Contemporary Indian Paintings from the
Collection of Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan
, New Delhi, India & travel to
Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, India
1996 Asia Society, Traditions & Tensions, New York, NY, US
1993 Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), India Songs, Sydney, Australia
1989 Center for Contemporary Art, Through the Looking Glass, New Delhi, India
1988 Kuwait National Museum, Selections from the Contemporary Figurative Indian Art, Kuwait City
1987 2nd Biennale, Havana, Cuba
Algiers Biennale, Algeria
1986 Centre Georges Pompidou, Festival of India, Paris, France
Roopankar Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India
1982 Royal Academy of Arts, Festival of India, London, UK
5th Triennial India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
1977 Lalit Kala Akademi, Pictorial Space, curated by Geeta Kapur, New Delhi, India
1975 3rd Triennial India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
1963 Kunika Chemould Gallery, In memory of Sailoz Mookerjea, New Delhi, India
1960-2 The Unknowns, New Delhi, India
EDUCATION
1954-59 Diploma in Fine Arts, School of Art, Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi, India
HONORS AND AWARDS
2011 Padma Bushan, Government of India
1998-99 Kalidas Samman, Bhopal, Madhya, Pradesh
1991 Parishad Samman, Sahitya-Kala Parishad, New Delhi
Arpita Singh was born in Bara Nagar, West Bengal in 1937. She lives and works in New Delhi.
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