Atul Dodiya - Audio Visual Lecture - Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

Atul Dodiya was born in 1959, Mumbai and studied art from Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay and Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
He became known in the Nineties for hyperrealist paintings depicting middle-class Indian life and for his watercolour series on Mahatma Gandhi. The paintings by Atul Dodiya are populated by diverse traditions in painting, the written words, images from the media and of saints, legends, national history, political events, traumata and autobiographical narratives. His allegorical paintings on canvas or metal roller shutters and watercolours may be aggressive or poetic.
Apart from a mid career retrospective at Japan Foundation Asia Centre, Tokyo 2001, Atul Dodiya had 25 solo shows in India and abroad, which includes , 'Tearscape'; The Fine Art Resource, Berlin 2001, 'Bombay Labyrinth/Laboratory'; Sakshi Gallery, Bombay 2002, 'E.T. and Others';Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid & Walsh Gallery, Chicago 2002, 'Broken Branches'; Bose Pacia, New York 2003, 'Antler Anthology'; Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara 2004, 'Cracks in Mondrian'; Bose Pacia, New York 2005, 'Shri Khakhar Prasanna'; Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara 2005, 'The Wet Sleeves of my Paper Robe (Sabari in Her Youth: After Nandalal Bose)'; Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore; Bodhi Art, New Delhi, Mumbai, New York & Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore 2006, 'Shri Khakhar Prasanna', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai 2007, 'Saptapadi: Scenes from Marriage (Regardless)'; Museum Gallery, Mumbai & Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2007, 'Pale Ancestors'; Bodhi Art, Mumbai 2008, 'Malevich Matters and Other Shutters'; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2010, 'If it rains fire'; Nature Morte, Berlin 2010.
He has participated in many group shows including Tate Modern, London, Japan Foundation Asia Centre, Tokyo, 1st Yokohoma Triennale, Yokohoma, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Museo Temporario/Culturgest, Lisbon, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 51st Biennale, Venice, The Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Documenta12, Kassel, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, 7th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, Mori Art Museum, Japan, The National Museum of contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, Essl Museum, Vienna, 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Urban Manners -- 2, San Paulo, Brazil, Palazzo Saluzzo di Paesana, Turin, Italy.
Atul Dodiya has received French Government Scholarship1991-1992, Sanskriti Award 1995, Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Italy 1999, Sotheby's Prize 1999, Raza Award 2009, GQ Man of the Year Award 2009.
He is represented in several private and public collections in India and abroad. Atul Dodiya lives and works in Bombay, India.
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