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Arpana Caur:

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Born 1954, Delhi.

M.A. Literature from Delhi University.

Recipient of a research grant from Lalit Kala Akademi for Painting, Delhi (1984-85); the All-India Fine Arts Society Award (1985); and the gold medal in the Sixth India Triennale (1986).

Founding member and Secretary General of the Academy of Fine Art and Literature, New Delhi. Commissioned by the Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art in 1995 for an exhibit commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the atomic bombing.

Select Solo exhibitions: Jehangir Gallery in Bombay (1980, 1982, 1984); the October Gallery in London (1980); the Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm (1984); the Foundation for Indian Artists Gallery in Amsterdam (1998); and the Bose Pacia Gallery in New York (1999). Group shows since 1974 include, among others, : the first Indo-Greek cultural symposium in Athens and Delhi (1984); the First Baghdad Biennale (1986); the Osaka Print Biennale (1994); Imagined City (Museum of Modern Art, Brasilia, Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, 1994-1995); and Tryst with Destiny (Singapore Museum of Modern Art, 1997); Indian Contemporary Art shows in Los Angeles, Singapore, & San Francisco. Executed the first Indian mural on Environment, with German artist Sonke Nissen in Delhi 2000, and on Time in Hamburg Germany 2000. Lives and works in New Delhi.

 

The strains of melancholy, mysticism and devotion in her work, may be traced to the literature and philosophy of Punjab. while Caur's manipulation of pictorial space draws inspiration from the Pahari miniature tradition. Caur shares her inner contemplations through her canvas, working on subjects like the enlightenment of the Buddha, or the ethereal love of Sohni Mahiwal; yet keeps returning to the world of the woman, showing women engaged in commonplace acts such as weaving or typing.