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Avinash Chandra

AVINASH CHANDRA
1931 - 1991


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BEGINNINGS

Born in Simla, Punjab.

EDUCATION

  • 1947-52 Diploma in Painting, Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi.
  • EXHIBITIONS

  • Selected Solo Exhibitions
  • 1951 Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir.
  • 1957 Imperial Institute, London.
  • 1958 Architectural Association, London.
  • 1959, 63 Queen?s University, Belfast.
  • 1960, 62 Molton Gallery, London.
  • 1960 Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford.
  • 1961 Galerie Kartina, Amsterdam.
  • 1961, 63 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.
  • 1961 Galerie de l?Universite, Paris.
  • 1962 Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough.
  • 1962 Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art, Durham.
  • 1963, 65, 67 Hamilton Gallery, London.
  • 1963 Galerie Palette, Zurich.
  • 1963 Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
  • 1964 American Art Gallery, Copenhagen.
  • 1964 Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford.
  • 1965 Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal.
  • 1967 Vanderlip Gallery, Philadelphia.
  • 1968 Columbia Rose Fried Gallery, New York.
  • 1969 Lo Guidice Gallery, Chicago.
  • 1970 Lehigh University, Bethlehem.
  • 1970 Galerie Contemporaine, Geneva.
  • 1971 Kretschmer Gallery, New York.
  • 1977 Gilbert Parr Gallery, London.
  • 1981 October Gallery, London.
  • 1982 Nation
  • COLLECTION

  • New York University, New York.
  • Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
  • Arts Council of Great Britain.
  • Tate Gallery, London.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
  • Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
  • St. Edmunds Hall, Oxford.
  • City Art Gallery, Birmingham.
  • Churchill College, Cambridge.
  • King?s College, Cambridge.
  • Magdalene College, Cambridge.
  • New Hall, Cambridge.
  • Leicestershire Education Committee, Leicester.
  • Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art, Durham.
  • NW Ireland Arts Trust, Ireland.
  • Musee d?Art Moderne, Paris.
  • Museum of Modern Art, Berlin.
  • Ulster Museum, Belfast.
  • Museum of Modern Art, Haifa.
  • Punjab University, Chandigarh.
  • Punjab Museum, Chandigarh.
  • National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
  • Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
  • AWARDS

  • 1954 Awarded first prize, First National Exhb. of Art, New Delhi.
  • 1956 Moved to England.
  • 1962 Gold medal, Prix Europ?enne, Ostend, Belgium.
  • 1965 John D Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship.
  • 1967 Fellowship, Fairfield Foundation, USA.
  • TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    1953-56 Taught at Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi.