ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
PANKAJ PANWAR
Born 1961
Post-Experience Diploma in Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, UK
M.F.A. (Sculpture) M.S. University, Baroda
B.F.A. (Sculpture), Kala-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santlniketan
Professor in Sculpture, Kala-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, W.B. India
The artist lives and works in Santiniketan.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2008 Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto
Grosvenor Museum, Chester, UK
R. C. A., London, UK
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Art-Heritage, New Delhi
Select Group Exhibitions
2008 Shaptarishee, Sculpture in Steel, organized by Depika Jindal, by curated Alka Pandey, Habitat center, New Delhi
Edge of Desire - Idioms of Indian & Italian Contemporary Art, NGMA, Kolkata, Bombay; New Delhi
The Human Figure, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
Entrusted, Charles Wallace Trust, New Delhi
Continuity, Disjuncture, Creativity, Akar Prakar, Kolkata
Tale of Two Cities, Birla Academy, Kolkata; Mumbai
Hundred and Fifty years of Art of Bengal, CIMA, Kolkata; Mumbai
Multi Media Art of the 90's, CIMA, Kolkata
Aesthetic Redefined, Birla Academy, Mumbai
Vision Recaptured, British High Commission, New Delhi; Madras; Kolkata
Sculpture – 95, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Awards
National Award for Sculpture, 47th National Exhibition, LKA, New Delhi
All India Exhibition Sculpture Award, L.K.A., Lucknow
Nomura Sculpture Award, Nomura International, London
Collections
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
Art Heritage, New Delhi
Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
CIMA, Kolkata
Nomura International, London
Grosvenor Museum, UK
Grizedale Forest & Gallery, UK
Galerle School, Amsterdam, Holland
Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Gallerie-Kunsthalle Hosp, Austria
Ecole Superior des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans, France