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EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
1973 Government College of Fine Arts, Indore MP

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1976, 2003 Devlalikar Art Gallery, Indore
1977, 79, 89 Kala Parishad Art Gallery of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal
1994 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 Taj Art Gallery, Taj Mahal Heritage Hotel, Mumbai
2003 Insiya Art Gallery, Indore
2005, 2009, 2012 Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Academic Art Gallery, Indore
2012 Coffee Palette, Indore
2014 Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi
2015 Old World Charm, Indore
2015 Bharat Bhavan, Roopankar Fine Arts Museum, Bhopal

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1979, 91, 94 Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi
1984 Black Group Exhibition, Bhopal
1984, 88, 90 Black Group Exhibition, Indore
1978 Indore Youth Exhibition, Integration of M.F. Husain, Indore
1987, 91, 2005, 09 Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1991 Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai
1990 Hussain Exhibition 75 Lalbaugh Palace, Indore
1999, 2000, 01, 02 Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi
1995, 96th Black Group Exhibition, Artist Centre, Mumbai
1996, 99, 2000, 2014 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 Art Today, New Delhi, curated by M.F. Hussain
1996 Somar Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2000 Tao Art Gallery, Bombay
2005 Dubai Art Fair, United Arab Emirates
2006 11th Harmony Art Exhibition, Tina Ambani, Mumbai
2008 Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2007 Dhoomimal Art Center, New Delhi
2007 Progressive Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Pioneer Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Ruchika Art Gallery, Goa
2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 Devlalikar Art Gallery Indore
2011 Aarambh Devlalikar Art Gallery, Indore
2012 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2013 Chitrakala Parishad, Bengaluru
2012 OnexOne Exhibition, Primlal Dua Art Gallery
OnexOne 2012 Indore Coffee Palette
2016 Almost Blue, Canary Art Gallery, Indore
2017 75th Artist Exhibition Canary Islands Art Gallery
2017, 18 Pritamlal Dua Art Gallery
2017 Rang Amir Art Exhibition, Indore
Jaipur Art Fair 2017

PARTICIPATIONS
1974 to 2005 MP State Exhibition
1974, 76 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
1975 Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1974 to 76 Mahakausahl Kala Parishad, Raipur
1976 Twenty-five years of art in MP, New Delhi
1974 to 90 All India Kalidas Art Exhibition, Ujjain
1976 All India Miniature Exhibition, Hyderabad
1978 National Kala Mela, New Delhi
1978 Shree Chandresh Saxesena Samman Exhibition, Devlalikar Gallery, Indore
1978, Exhibition 95 Selected Artists of the M.P. New Delhi
1986, 90, 94, 96, 99 Bharat Bhavan Biennale, Bhopal
1987 Grishma Kala Mela, Indore
1991 Sharad Parva, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1994, 95, 96 Halal Malwa Utsav Exhibition, Indore
1996, 98, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2014 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1989 Safdar Hashmi Memory Exhibition, Bhopal
1999 National Exhibition, Nagpur
1999 Published in Readers Digest
2010 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi
2010 International Mask Exhibition, New Delhi, Bharat Bhavan
2012 Imago Mundi Biennial, Vanis
Jaipur Art Summit 2015
2015 56th National Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala, New Delhi
2015, 16 Khajuraho Art Mart, Khajuraho MP
2018 59th National Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

HONORS AND AWARD
1974, 84, 94, 99, 05 MP State Exhibition
1976 All India Art Exhibition, Raipur
1976, 86 All India Kalidas Art Exhibition, Ujjain
1977 Yuvak Kalyan Kendra, Bhopal
1989 Achal Alayas Award, Ujjain
1990, 91st Tulika Exhibition, Omkareswar
1990 Mera Indore
1990 Vakankar Memory Exhibition, Ujjain
2007 37th All India Samman Cap, Kalidas Academy, Ujjain
2008 Meera Kala Samman

ABOUT THE ARTIST

I firmly believe that nature first creates and then glimpses it, perhaps that is why I also believe in painting and seeing instead of seeing and painting. The path to my satisfaction begins with and comes back to creating art. This is the only reason I paint over and over again.

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