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Shanti Dave
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Born in 1931, Shanti Dave lived in the village of Badpura in north Gujarat with his mother and brother. Dave started his career in the field of fine arts as a signboard and banner painter in Ahmedabad. In 1950, Dave joined the Faculty of Fine Arts of the MS University in Baroda, where he obtained both his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in painting.
Today, Dave is know as much for his paintings as he is for his large murals...
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Born in 1931, Shanti Dave lived in the village of Badpura in north Gujarat with his mother and brother. Dave started his career in the field of fine arts as a signboard and banner painter in Ahmedabad. In 1950, Dave joined the Faculty of Fine Arts of the MS University in Baroda, where he obtained both his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in painting.
Today, Dave is know as much for his paintings as he is for his large murals which adorn the walls of art institutions and public spaces all over the world. He was commissioned and flown by Air India to decorate its offices in Frankfurt and Sydney, but the fondest memory he has of a mural he painted is of the one in the VIP lounge of an airport in New York. Painted in 1963, this mural reflects Dave’s village upbringing and the tough times his family faced when he was a young child in Badpura. He remembers, "I was about five at that time. Our house was under confiscation owing to an outstanding debt and had been sealed. On hearing about the confiscation of the house in which there lived a poor woman with two small children, the Thakur lifted the confiscation. This stayed in my mind. In 1963, in New York, I visualized the Thakur era and I painted in it my wall painting. On February 5, 1964, the New York Times flashed a photograph of it titled Little Gujarat spread over three columns of the front page. It was my happiest experience."
Shanti Dave has held several one-man exhibitions in India and abroad since his first in 1957, and has participated in group exhibitions including prestigious shows like the South East Asia Art Exhibition in the Philippines, 1957, the International Graphic Exhibition in Switzerland, 1960, the Commonwealth Exhibition in London, 1962 and other international events in Japan, France, East Europe and the Middle East. Dave has shown his paintings in almost every Indian city and his work is part of many private and corporate collections of art all over the world.
This artist has been the proud recipient of a Padma Shree and the National Art Academy Award on three occasions in 1956, 1957 and 1958. Dave is a member of the Executive Board of the Lalit Kala Academy, and a member of the Sahitya Kala Parishad, both in New Delhi
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Born
1931
Ahmedabad
Education
1956-58 Post Diploma in Painting, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1950-56 Graduation, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004 ‘Exhibition of Graphic Prints:...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004 ‘Exhibition of Graphic Prints: Shanti Dave’, Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
2001 ‘Krishna Avatarana: Exhibition of Paintings by Shanti Dave’, Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
1999 ‘Exhibition of Abstract Paintings by Padmashri Shanti Dave’, Holiday Inn, Nairobi, Kenya
1998 ‘Shanti Dave: Exhibition of Paintings’, ABC Academy of Art and Culture, Varanasi
1997 ‘Exhibition of Wood Cuts: Shanti Dave’, Atelier 2221 Print Gallerie, New Delhi
1990 Gallery Crimson, Bangalore
1987 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1987 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1987 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1984 ‘Shanti Dave: Exhibition of Paintings’, Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai
1984 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1981 ‘Shanti Dave’s Recent Paintings and Mural for Tat Burrough’, Mumbai and Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1981 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1981 Urja Art Gallery, Baroda
1981 Narai Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
1979 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1979 Arab Cultural Centre, Damascus
1978 ‘Shanti Dave’, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1978 ‘Multi Colored Woodcuts by Shanti Dave’, Sarla Art Centre, Chennai
1974 ‘Shanti Dave ‘74’, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1974 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1974 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1971 ‘Exhibition of Paintings by Shanti Dave’, Ashoka Art Gallery, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi
1971-72 ‘Shanti Dave’, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1970 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1968 ‘Shanti Dave’, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1967 Gallery Navina, New York
1966 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1966 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1965 Gallery 331, New Orleans, USA
1965 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1965 Ahmedabad Museum, Ahmedabad
1965 ‘Homage to the Wall: Recent Paintings of Shanti Dave’, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1964 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1964 Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
1963 Gallery Liguria, Rome, Italy; Frankfurt Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
1962 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
1962 Roopa Art Gallery, Mumbai
1961 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
1961 Grabowski Gallery, London
1961 La Jolla Art Centre, San Diego, Pasadena, USA
1960 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
1959 ‘Paintings Graphics: Shanti Dave’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1957 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 'A. SYCO', The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2008 'Frame Figure Field: 20th Century Modern and Contemporary Indian Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 'Baroda: A Tale of Two Cities', (Part I), Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
1986 ‘Graphic Exhibition’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1983 Koninujk Institute, Amsterdam
1981 ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, Gallery Art East / Art West’, Hong Kong
1981 ‘Thirty Years of Jehangir Art Gallery’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1975 Washington D.C, USA
1975 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1971 Traveling Exhibition of Indian Art to Japan and South America
1968-71 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1968 Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
1968 Washington D.C, USA
1965 ‘Traveling Exhibition, Contemporary Indian Art’, South Africa
1964 Blair House, London
1964 Sindin Harris – Scarsdale, New York
1964 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
1963 Ohio University, Ohio
1963 Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago and Asia Society, New York
1963 ‘Indian Art Today’, London
1962 Commonwealth Exhibition, London
1961 Grabowski Gallery, London
1959 Traveling Exhibition, Contemporary Indian Art, Switzerland, Germany, USSR, Egypt and South America
1957 South-East Asia Art Exhibition, Manila, Philippines
1956 Baroda Group of Artists, Mumbai
Participations
2011 ‘Manifestations VI', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
1980 ‘Asian Artists Exhibition’, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
1979 ‘Asian Artists Exhibition’, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
1978 ‘4th Triennale of Contemporary World of Art’, India
1975 ‘3rd Triennale of Contemporary World of Art’, India
1965 Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil
1965 Mainichi International Exhibition, Japan
1961 Paris Biennale, France
1960 International Graphic Exhibition, Lugano, Switzerland
1958 National Exhibition, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1957 National Exhibition, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1956 National Exhibition, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
2004 Lalit Kala Ratna Puraskar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1978 4th...
2004 Lalit Kala Ratna Puraskar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1978 4th Triennale of Contemporary World Art, New Delhi
1975 Award, 3rd Triennale – India, New Delhi
1965 Mainichi Award, Tokyo Biennale, Japan
1959 Governor’s Gold Medal, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1959 Cash Prize, Bombay State Annual Art Exhibition, Mumbai
1958 Lalit Kala Akademi Award, New Delhi
1957-59 Government of India, 2 Years Cultural Scholarship
1957 Governor’s Prize (Silver Medal), Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1957 Lalit Kala Akademi Award, New Delhi
1957 Prize, South – East Asia Art exhibition, Art Society of Philippines
1956 Lalit Kala Akademi Award, New Delhi
1956 Governor’s Prize (Silver Medal), Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
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