Building Materials: The Sculpture of Dhruva Mistry

Another Subcontinent presents a retrospective of the work of renowned Indian sculptor, Dhruva Mistry. This exhibition features pieces by Dhruva Mistry from 1976 to the present day. We hope to present very soon another exhibition of selections from his drawings, prints and paintings. The exhibition will be featured on Another Subcontinent till July 3, 2007 and will then be archived in the "Visual" section of our features archive (see links at left).

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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.

(The image on the front page of the exhibition is of a study for "Spatial Diagram", Bronze, 1988-90")

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