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1955 Born, Lucknow
1981 Degree in Painting from M.S. University, Baroda
1984 M.A. from the Royal College of Art, London
1985-87 Fellowship at Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad
1985-87 Teaching part-time at the National Institute Of Design,
Ahmedabad
1986 Teaching at School of Architecture and Planning, New Delhi
1991&1996 Teaching part-time at National Institute of Fashion
Technology
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1986 Gallery 7, Bombay
1987 Art Heritage, New Delhi
1988 Chitrakoot Gallery, Calcutta
1989 Display Gallery, New Delhi
1990 Gallery 7, Bombay
1993 Sakshi Gallery, Bombay
1994 Sakshi Gallery, Madras, Bangalore, Pune
1995 Eicher Gallery, New Delhi
1997 Sakshi Gallery, Bombay
1998 Nature Morte, New Delhi
2001 Art Inc, New Delhi
2005 January, Nature Morte (&Bose-Pacia,) New Delhi
2005 August, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2007 November, Nature Morte, New Delhi
INVITATIONS TO PARTICIPATE
1989 Safdar Hashmi Samaroh, New Delhi
1989 Artists camp sponsored by XAL Praxis, Goa
1990 Artists in aid of Kashmir refugees, New Delhi
1991 Artists in aid of Cuba, New Delhi
1992 "Journeys within landscape', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Bombay
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1993 Artists camp at Kanoria Centre for Art, sponsored by Bharat
Diamond Bourse
1994 Still Life show, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay
1995 Art for CRY
1996 SHAVE International Artists Workshop, Somerset, UK
1997 "HARMONY" show, sponsored by Reliance Industries, Bombay
1998 'Edge of the century', New Delhi
2000 Joint show with Sudhir Patwardhan at Gallery 7, Bombay
2005 ‘Indian Summer’, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
2007 Cultural tour to Turkey organized by Popular Prakashan
2010 Commonwealth Games exhibition, New Delhi
ORGANISATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Founder Member, of KHOJ International Artists Association, 1997
Co-coordinator KHOJ 97 (International Artists Workshop) 1997
AWARDS
Gold medal, M.S. University of Baroda, 1981
British Council scholarship to study in London, 1982
Gujarat state award, 1987
Navdeep award, 1987
Grant from Triangle Arts Trust, London & British Council to visit UK, 1996
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad
Gujarat state Lalit Kala Academy, Ahmedabad
Synergy Art Foundation, Bombay
Eicher ltd., New Delhi
Proctor & Gamble Ltd, Bombay
Chester Herwitz Collection, USA
Mr. Devinder Sahni, Bombay
Rahul & Mehreen Khosla, Singapore
Mr. O.P. Jain, New Delhi
Anupam Poddar, New Delhi
Amit Judge, New Delhi
Nitin Bhayana, New Delhi
Anuraag & Gopika Chowfla, New Delhi
Prema Srinivasan, Chennai
Rajashree Pathy, Coimbatore
And in other private and public collections in India and abroad.
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Ajay Desai
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(b 1955)
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