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| Arpana Caur Siri Fort Auditorium New Delhi India email: arpanac@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in |  |
| Arpana has won several awards and distinctions for her work including Gold Medal in VI Triennele (International), 1986 and All India Fine Arts Society Award, 1985. She has served on the purchase committee of National gallery of Modern Art, 1991-1992 and on the jury of Republic Day Committee for 2 years. She is also the Founder Member and Secretary General of Fine Arts and Literature. She was the only Indian artist commissioned by Hiroshima museum of modern art to do a work for the 50th aniversary of the Holocaust. Her paintings are in public collection at Kunst Museum, Dusseldorf; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bradford Museum, U.K.; Glenbarra Museum, Japan; Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art, Japan; National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi; Chandigarh Museum; Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm; Singapore Museum of Modern Art. Some of her solo exhibitions inclde Bose Pacia Modern, New York, 1999; Foundation of Indian Artists Galerie, Amsterdam, 1998; Fine Art Resources, Berlin, 1998; Arts Gallery, London, 1997; Sakshi Art Gallery, Bombay, 1996, and Bangalore, 1996; Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, Delhi, 1993; Cymroza Gallery, Bombay, 1985, '89, '94, '98; National Museum, Copenhagen, 1984; Ethnograpic Museum, Stockholm, 1984; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, 1982; City Hall Gallery, Ottawa, 1981; Jehangir Gallery, Bombay, 1980, '82, '84; October Gallery London, 1980, '82; Gallery Arts 38, London, 1979; Shridharni Gallery, London, Delhi, 1975. Arpana's work has been exhibited in several group exibitions including 50 years of Indian Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi and Bombay, 1998; Indian Woman Artists, National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, 1997; Indian Woman Artists, Festival of India, USSR, 1986; 'Imagined City' at Museums of Modern Art in Brasillia, Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, 1994-95; Asian Art Show, Hiroshima Museum, Japan, 1994; 'Encounter', parallel to Kassel Documenta, 1992 and 1997; Invited by USIS to tour 7 cities in the U.S, 1992; Invited by China to visit museums and art institutions, 1991; First Baghdad Biennial, 1986; Algiers Biennial, 1986; Cuba Biennial, 1987; Group show sent by National Gallery of Modern Art Delhi to Fukuoka Museum, Japan, 1984 and '85. Indo-Greek Cultural Museum and group show at Athens and Delphi, 1984. | |
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