Drawings, Prints & Paintings by Dhruva Mistry

Another Subcontinent is pleased to present our second exhibition of art by Dhruva Mistry. Our first exhibition of his work (Summer 2007) featured a retrospective of Mistry's sculpture from 1976 to the present day. We had looked forward then to a separate exhibition of his drawings, prints and paintings, which brings us to this feature, and to a greater appreciation of the multifaceted expressions of Mistry's genius.

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About Dhruva Mistry

Dhruva Mistry was born in 1957, in Kanjari, Gujarat.He received his MA in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda in 1981. He then pursued another MA at the Royal College of Art in London from 1981-83 on a British Council Scholarship. In 1984-85 he was the Artist in Residence at Kettle’s Yard Gallery with a Fellowship at Churchill College in Cambridge. In 1994 he was selected for the "Asian Artist Today- Fukuoka Annual VII" exhibition in Japan. Dhruva was elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1991 and Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London in 1993. He has shown regularly in one man shows apart from being included in significant group shows in national and international exhibitions. His work is held in major public and private collections in UK, Japan and India. He returned to Vadodara in 1997. He was appointed Professor, Head of Sculpture and Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University in May 1999 and quit in Nov 2002. He was awarded an Honorary CBE by Queen Elizabeth in 2001. Other awards include Award of Excellence by Gujarat Gaurav Samiti, 2006, Honorary Award of Doctor of the University of Central England, Birmingham, 2007. He lives and works in Vadodara.

Selected Shows and Exhibitions--Solo

  • 1981       Art Heritage, New Delhi
  • 1982       Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • 1986       Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno; Walker               Art Gallery, Liverpool
  • 1990       Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
  • 1994       Modern Art Gallery, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan; The Atrium               Gallery, London
  • 1995       Royal Academy, Friends Room, London
  • 1998       Nazar Gallery, Vadodara
  • 2001       Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai; Queen’s Gallery, The British Council,               New Delhi
  • 2005       Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai; Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Rabindra               Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

Selected Shows and Exhibitions--Group

  • 1976-80  Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi, Ahmedabad
  • 1978-80  National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
  • 1979       Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and               Madras
  • 1982       Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar Museum, Bhopal; Fifth Triennale               India, New Delhi; Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy,               London; Current Issues, Royal College of Art, London; Lieux               d’Artistes, Marseille
  • 1985       A Journey Through Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery, London;               Proud and Prejudiced, Twinning Gallery, New York; Figure 1,               Young Figurative Painters and Sculptors, Aberystwyth Arts               Centre, Wales
  • 1986       Living Art, Ideal Home exhibition, London 14th Biennale               lnternazionale del Bronzetto e Piccola Scultura, Padua; Holbec               Triangle Project, Yorkshire Contemporary Art Centre, Leeds
  • 1987       Contemporary Art Fair, Bath International Festival, Bath
  • 1988       Art in the Garden, Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow; A Personal               Choice, Curated by Jeffery Camp, Nigel Greenwood Gallery,               London; Art 20’90 International Art Fair, Basel; Whitworth Art               Gallery, Manchester
  • 1990       Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open Air               Museum, Japan
  • 1994       Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London Modern British               Sculpture, Beaux Arts, London The Peter Greenham Memorial               Appeal Exhibition, Christie’s, London
  • 1997       New Generation of Asian Art, Yonago City Museum of Art, and               tour to Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art, Miyakonojo City               Museum of Art, Japan; Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy,               London; Major Trends in Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New               Delhi; Rediscovering the roots: Contemporary Indian Art, Museo               de la Nacion, Lima, Peru
  • 1998       Inaugural Exhibition, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai; Drawings’98,               Nazar Gallery, Vadodara; Lalit Kala Akadami Gallery,               Ahmedabad
  • 2001       10th Triennale-India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
  • 2002       The Banyan City, Nazar Gallery, Vadodara; Thinking Big: 21st               Century British Sculpture, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice;               Metamorphing, Curated by Marina Warner and Sarah Bakewell,               Science Museum, London; VOICES Against Violence, organized               by Citizens Confluence, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara
  • 2004       Looking Back, Looking Forward, Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara;               Indian Artists for France, Embassy of France, New Delhi;               Androgyne, Curated by Dr. Alka Pande, India Habitat Centre,               New Delhi; Subtlety-Minimally, Curated by Marta Jakimovitz,               Sakshi Gallery, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Osian’s, The               Masterpieces & Museum Quality Series, Auction, New Delhi
  • 2005       Modern Indian Paintings, Grosvenor Gallery (Fine Arts) Ltd,               London; Osian’s Revisulising India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
  • 2007       Correspondence of 3-D, Gallery Artlier, Fukuoka, Japan; Venice:               City of Dreams?, Sotheby’s, London; 20th Century Sculpture               2007, Grosvenor Gallery, London  

Selected Public Collections

  •               Arts Council, London
  •               Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
  •               Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
  •               Department of Fine Arts, Punjab University, Chandigarh
  •               Delhi University, New Delhi
  •                Embassy of France, New Delhi
  •                Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
  •                Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
  •                Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
  •                Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
  •                Osian’s Archive, New Delhi
  •                Roopankar Museum of Fine Art, Bhopal
  •                Royal College of Art, London
  •                Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton
  •                Tate Gallery, London
  •                Tamano City Council, Uno, Japan
  •                The British Museum, London
  •                The Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan
  •                Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  •                Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool