K. Laxma Goud

BORN
21 August 1940 Nizampur, Medak, Hyderabad

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
1963-65 Post-Diploma in Mural Painting and Drawing, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Student of Prof. K. G. Subramanyan)
1957-62 Diploma (Drawing and Painting), Government College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 I want to seduce with my line, K.Laxma Goud Prints, drawings, watercolor, pen and ink, acrylic, sculptures, and mixed media works Period 1967-2011 at Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Art Reflections, Mumbai
2011 Everyday Life, Focus Art Gallery, Chennai
2009 Aicon Gallery, London
2009 Gallery 88, Calcutta
2008 Watercolor, drawings, intaglio, etchings and sculptures, Indian contemporary art (ICA), Jaipur
2008 Intaglio prints 2007, Gallery Space, Hyderabad
2008 Sumukha Gallery, Chennai
2007 Laxma Goud, 40 years of retrospective, Aicon Gallery, New York
2006 Recent Terracotta, Ceramic and Bronze Sculptures, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2006 Bronze and Terra - Cottas Sculpture Exhibition, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2003 Early Works, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Arts India Gallery, New York
2001-02 Gray Art Gallery, New York
1991 The Gallery, Chennai
1985 Lalit Kala Akademi. New Delhi
1982 Royal Academy of London
1976 Black Partridge Gallery, New Delhi
1975-76 Hamburg, Germany
1974 Surya Gallerie, Friensheim, West Germany
1973 Andsell Gallery, London
1972 Chemould Gallery, Mumbai
1965-67 Kalabhavan, Hyderabad

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Diva, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2012 Metalwork, The Harrington Street Arts Center, Calcutta
2011-12 Reprise 2011, Aicon Gallery, New York
2011 Progressive Starting States to the Present, Aicon Gallery, London
2011 Anecdotes, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 Dalis Elephant, Aicon Gallery, London
2010 The Living Insignia, Ensign Gallery, New Delhi
2010 Modern Folk The roots of popular art of the modernist avant-garde, Aicon Gallery, New York
2010 Black is Beautiful, Indian Fine Arts, Mumbai
2010 Essential, eclectic, ephemeral, The Harrington Mansions, Kolkata
2009 Mark of Masters -2, Art and Soul, Mumbai
2009 In Search of the Vernacular, Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 Sacred and Secular, Fine Arts of India, Mumbai
2009 Think Small, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2009 The Root of Everything, Mementos Gallery, Bangalore
2009 Gallery Space, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
2009 Moderns and More, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto
2008 X to the rhythm of Jehangir, presented by Art Musings at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 1 x 1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2007 High on Art, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Mumbai
2007 Chase Sculpture, Galerie 88, Calcutta
2007 17th Anniversary Exhibition, Sanskriti Gallery, Kolkata
2007 An Evening in Paris Rome London, Sanskriti Gallery, Calcutta
2007 Colors of Art, presented by Galerie Sara Arakkal and Gallery Art Resource Trust at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 The Workshop, Indian Fine Arts, Mumbai
2007 Look Again, Hasta Gallery, Hyderabad
2007 From The Vault, Aicon Gallery, London and New York
2006 Drawing Exhibition: An Act of Art II, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 Nude line drawings by 12 artists, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2006 Tangibles, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 Back to the Future, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2005 Change of address, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2001 The Active Line Five Idioms of Drawing, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 Drawings, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Wound Center of International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) New Delhi
1986 Contemporary Art from India Herwitz Collection, Worcester Art Museum
1986 Indian Art of Tomorrow, Philips Collection, Washington DC
1985 Contemporary Indian Art, Gray Art Gallery, New York
1982 Royal Academy of Art, London

SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITION
2009 With Viraj Naik at Gallery Mementos, Bangalore

PARTICIPATIONS
2014 Ode to Monumental Celebration, Visuality, and Ideology, presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2014 Rituals and reasons that invoke the sensual in art, Apprao Galleries, Chennai
2013 The Nude and the Nude The Body in Modern Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Ethos V Indian Art through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2011 Manifestations VI, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Manifestations V, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 Masters Corner, organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India International Art Fair, New Delhi
2010 Contemporary Printmaking in India, presented by Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 Manifestations IV, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008-09 Expanding Horizons Contemporary Indian Art, traveling exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai, Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati, Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur, Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad, Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalays, Solapur, Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur, PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune, Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik
2008 Harvest 2008, organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
1977 Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil

HONORS AND AWARD
2016 Awarded Padma Shri by The Government of India
1971 Gold Medal, Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Andhra Pradesh
1969 Gold Medal, Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad
1968 Silver Medal, Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad
1966-70 Award, Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Andhra Pradesh
1962 Award, Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Andhra Pradesh

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in 1940 in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh, K. Laxma Goud completed his diploma in Drawing and Painting at the Government College of Art and Architecture, Hyderabad, in 1963, then went on to study Mural Painting and Printmaking at the College of Fine Arts. at MS University of Baroda, from 1963 to 1965. Goud displays versatility in a variety of media, from printmaking, drawing, watercolor, gouache, and pastels to painting on glass and sculpture in bronze and terracotta. Over the many years of his artistic career, he is known to have moved from one medium to another with Elan. His fellow artist T. Vaikuntam, in one of his interviews, remembers that it was Laxma Goud who introduced him to the art of drawing and made him aware of the possibilities of this medium.

When you look at God's work, the first words that come to mind are rustic, raw, and powerful. His portraits of men and women represent the dynamic spirit of India rather than particular individual identities. A recurring theme in the artist is that of the erotic, treated as an active and powerful aspect of sexuality and male and female existence. Goud's work is dramatic, his protagonists are raw and lively in their appeal, imbued with an energy that reverberates through their strokes and textures. Most of Goud's art focuses on the rural, recreating landscapes from his childhood as if frozen in time. In the artist's later work, his figures become softer, and more introspective than daring in his perspective.

Recently, the artist has worked on a series of lush landscapes in vivid colors reminiscent of his youth in rural Andhra Pradesh. Like most of the artist's works, they are generally executed in miniature format, in what is perhaps an attempt to create an intimate atmosphere in which the viewer can interact directly with his creations.

In 2007, the exhibition Laxma Goud's 40 Years A Retrospective was organized by Aicon Gallery, New York. Other recent solo exhibitions of Goud's work include Sculptures, Bronze, and Terracottas at Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, in 2006, Recent Terracotta, Ceramic and Bronze Sculptures at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi, and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, in 2006. , and those held at Aicon Gallery, New York, in 2003, and Gray Art Gallery, New York, in 2001-02. Some of the notable group exhibitions in which his works have been presented are From the Vault at Aicon Gallery, London, and New York, in 2007, 17th Anniversary Show at Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata, in 2007, and Back to the Future in Gallery Space. , New Delhi, in 2006. Goud's work was also part of the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil, in 1977, and Indian Art Tomorrow at the Philips Collection, Washington D.C. in 1986.

The artist lives and works in Hyderabad.

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