Anjolie Ela Menon

BORN
1940 Burnpur, West Bengal, India

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors in Literature, Delhi University, Delhi
1959-61 Atelier Fresque, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Art, Paris

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 'Anjolie Ela Menon: A Retrospective', New York: Aicon Gallery
2013 'Recent Paintings', Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2013 Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai
2010 'Through the Patina', organized by Vadhera Art Gallery at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2007 Menongitis-Three Generations Of Art, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
2006 Celebration, Gallery ArtsIndia West, Palo Alto
2005 ArtsIndia West, Palo Alto
2004 Gallery ArtsIndia, New York
2003 Vadehra Art Gallery at Shridharani Gallery, Delhi
2002 Four Decades, Vadehra Art Gallery at National Art of Modern Art(NGMA), Mumbai, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore
2000 Gods and others, Apparao Galleries at Admit One Gallery, New York
1996 Vadhera Art Gallery, Hong Kong
1996 Mutations, organized by The Gallery, Madras, at Wallace Galleries, New York
1988 Retrospective 1958-88, organized by The Times of India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1976 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1963 Alliance Francaise, Mumbai
1959 Gallery 59, Mumbai

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 'Immutable Gaze Part I: Masterpieces of Modern and Pre-Modern Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York
2013 'Remaking the Modern: An Indian Modern & Contemporary Art Exhibition', Alon Zakaim Fine Art, Dover Street
2013 'Glimpses of I am the Tiger', Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi
2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2013 'QUARTO '13', Art Musings, Mumbai
2013 'The Drawing Wall', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2013 'Color My World', presented by Mahua Art Gallery at Leela Galleria and Windsor Manor, Bangalore
2013 'Edge of Reason- and beyond, into pure creativity', presented by Indian Art Circle at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2012 'Talking Heads', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'Iconic Processions', Aicon Gallery, New York
2012 'Gallery Collection', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'Women: Sacred and the Temporal', Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
2012 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai
2011 'The Lost Sparrow', presented by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2011 'Masterclass', Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Figure/Landscape - Part One', Aicon Gallery, New York
2009-10 'Unclaimed Spaces', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2009,10 'Master Class', The Arts Trust, Mumbai
2009 'Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin', Emile Lowe Gallery, Hempstead
2009 'In Search of the Vernacular', Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 'Kalpana: Figurative Art in India', presented by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London; The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)
2008 'X at the rate of Jehangir', presented by Art Musings at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 'Mapping Memories - 2, Painted Travelogues of Bali and Burma, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2007 Sitaaray - A Galaxy of Artists, Indian Habitat Centre, Delhi
2005 Drishti, Bodhi Art Gallery, New York
2004 Confluence 2004, Gallery ArtsIndia, New York
2004 Jiva- Life, Contemporary Indian Painting, Bodhi Art Gallery, New York 2001 Saffronart and Apparao Galleries, Los Angeles 2001 Saffronart, Hong Kong
2001 Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai, organized by Gallery Espace, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2001 The Sacred Prism III, organized by Apparao Gallery, London, New York, San Francisco
1993 Reflections and Images, Vadehra Art gallery at Jehangir Art gallery, Mumbai
1986 Indian Women Artists, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1980 Exhibition at Washington D.C and New York

PARTICIPATIONS
2015 'Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection', Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
2013 'Palette Summer 2013', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'Art for Humanity', Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2011 'Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Resonance', Art Musings, Mumbai
2010 'Art Celebrates 2010: Sports and the City', represented by Art Alive Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games
2010 'Art Dubai 2010', presented by Aicon Gallery, New York
2010 'Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'ARCO 2010 Madrid', presented by Aicon Gallery, London
1980 Paris Biennale, Paris, France
1968,71,75 1st,2nd,3rd International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi

HONORS AND AWARD
2000 Awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India
1959-61 Received French Government Scholarship for Higher Studies in Paris
1980-81 Invited to study by The Government of France, UK and USA

Notification - We do not usually display Anjolie Ela Menon's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.

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