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Dhruva Mistry
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Best known for his sculptures, Dhruva Mistry combines religious art of ancient civilizations along with the popular art of the bazaar. His works bear a rich narrative quality and varies in style and scale- from small sculptures in bronze to monumental works for public spaces, made of sand, cement, stone and stainless steel.
Dhruva Mistry studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda (1974-81) before going...
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Best known for his sculptures, Dhruva Mistry combines religious art of ancient civilizations along with the popular art of the bazaar. His works bear a rich narrative quality and varies in style and scale- from small sculptures in bronze to monumental works for public spaces, made of sand, cement, stone and stainless steel.
Dhruva Mistry studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda (1974-81) before going on to study further at the Royal College of Art, London (1981-83) on a British Council Scholarship. He has had several solo and group shows in India and abroad since 1976. His first was mounted at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (1982). In the year between 1984 and ’85, Mistry was an artist in residence at Kettle’s Yard Gallery with a Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge. Since then Mistry has exhibited extensively in United Kingdom, Europe and Japan. His works have been included in several prestigious collections including those at the Lalit Kala Akademi, the Tate Gallery, the Arts Council, the British Council, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan. His public-art installations include a sculptural pieces installed at Goodwood, Sussex, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and the Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan. Mistry has also been commissioned to produce sculptures for the Victoria Square in Birmingham, U.K and Tamano City, Japan. In 1994, he was selected by the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, to mount his works at the show, Asian Artists Today – Fukuoka Annual VII. In 1991, Mistry was given the honour of being elected into the Royal Academy of Arts and in 1993, was invited to be a Fellow with the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London. On returning to Baroda, in 1997, he was appointed as Professor, Head of Sculpture and Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Baroda. In 2001, he was awarded the prestigious, Honorary CBE (Commander of the most excellent Order of the British Empire).
His works, apart from being conceptual, also engage with the process of art-making, while alluding to the intellectual debate between the artist and viewer, whether implied or expressed, that a work of art premises and/or gives rise to.
Mistry’s present oeuvre Steel, Stainless Still, comprises of free standing sculptures and reliefs where he has explored the materiality of steel in terms of its contrasts. While he brings forth the frigidness of the material, he also discovers sensuality in the medium. The smooth unblemished surface of the material provides Mistry with singular possibilities which he seizes to reveal. Time and again, Mistry explores the surrounding boundaries of space where his figures are planted. The artist’s desire for simplicity prompted him to incorporate the elemental forms of the square and circle in the current oeuvre, identified as Kaliscape, Spatial Diagram, Still Life, Maya Medallion and Maya Head, a reduction to the basic elements of shapes that constitute life around one.
In works titled Maya, there is no conscious attempt to touch upon the mythological aspect, however Mistry concedes that his works reveal a mystery of interpretative insights and of course the ambiguity of Maya- the illusion of the phenomenal world.
The artist has been working in steel since 1999, but turned to metal sheet only in 2003. His desire to explore the finest possibilities of physical sculpture initiated him to identify the simplest way of constructing a free standing sculpted steel figure. Seated Figure is one of his early attempts whereas Fallen Torso is a more complex composition in steel.
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Born
1957
Kanjari, Gujarat
Education
1981-83 Master of Arts (Sculpture), Royal College of Art, London (British Council Scholarship)
1979-81 Master of Arts (Sculpture), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1974-79 Bachelor of Art (Sculpture), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (British Council Scholarship)
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 'Dhruva Mistry, Selected work:...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 'Dhruva Mistry, Selected work: 1974 - 2014', Knots, Vadodara
2014 'Something Else', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Dhruva Mistry: Bronzes 1987- 1990', Grosvenor Gallery, London
2010 'Dhruva Mistry: Recent Work', L & P Hutheesing Visual Art Centre, Ahmedabad
2007 ‘Steel, Stainless, Still, New Work 2004-2006’, organized by Bodhi Art at Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007 'Table Pieces 2003-2004', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai and touring to Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2007 ‘Ink Jet and Expulsion of Pain on Paper’, Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2007 ‘Ink Jet, Canvas and Sculpture: 2002 – 2007’, Art Pilgrim, New Delhi
2007 ‘Building Materials: The Sculpture of Dhruva Mistry’, Online Exhibition at Anothersubcontinent.com
2005 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2005 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2001 'Work 1997-2001', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2001 Queen's Gallery, The British Council, New Delhi
2000 'Thoughts about Things: Leaves from Ire', Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
1999 'Prints 1988-1998', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
1998 'Thoughts about Things: Leaves from Ire',Nazar Gallery, Vadodara
1996 'Recent Sculpture', Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton
1996 'Unmasked', Meghraj Gallery, London
1995 'Work 1990-1995', Royal Academy, Friends Room, London
1994 'Asian Artist Today: Fukuoka Annual VII', Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1990 'Bronzes 1985-1990', Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1989 'Cross Sections, Sculpture and Drawings 1982-88', Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-Upon –Tyne, UK
1988 'Cross Sections, Sculpture and Drawings 1982-88', Collins Gallery, Glasgow
1987 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1986 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1985 Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge
1983 Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad
1982 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1981 Art Heritage, New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 'In-Between', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2013 'Edge of Reason- and beyond, into pure creativity', presented by Indian Art Circle at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2011 'The Path of the Lotus: Indian Art', Grosvenor Gallery, London
2011 'Agape', Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009 'Anglo-Indian Express', Grosvenor Gallery, London
2009 'Progressive to Altermodern: 62 Years of Indian Modern Art', Grosvenor Gallery, London
2009 'Modern British Sculpture', Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2008 'Shifting Terrains: Altered Realities', The Shrine Gallery, New Delhi
2007-08 ‘Polyphonies’, Gallery Hosp, Tirol – Österreich, Austria
2007-08 Indian Art at The Swarovski ‘Crystal World’, Tirol – Österreich, Austria
2007 ‘Correspondence of 3-D’, Gallery Artlier, Fukuoka, Japan
2007 ‘20th Century Sculpture 2007’, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2007 Venice: City of Dreams?, Sotheby’s, London
2006 ‘Back to the Future 1989-2005’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2006 ‘Making of Divinity’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2006 The Art Mill at Berkley Square Gallery, London
2005 ‘Modern Indian Paintings’, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2005 Visual Wit, Shandy Hall, Coxwold
2004 ‘Looking Back, Looking Forward’, Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
2004 ‘Androgyne’, The Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2004 ‘Indian Artists for France’, Embassy of France in aid of Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
2004 ‘Secret’, Royal College of Art, London
2003 ‘Affordable Art Show 2003’, The Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad.
2002 ‘Thinking Big: 21st Century British Sculpture’, Peggey Guggenheim Collection, Venice
2002 ‘Metamorphing’, Science Museum, London
2002 ‘Creative Space’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai and Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2001 Art for Prabhat, Arpana Fine Arts, New Delhi
2001 ‘Secret’, Royal College of Art, London
2000 ‘Embarkations, The Millennium Show’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Bronze, an Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture’, Holland Park, London
1999 ‘Drawing and Models’, Hertogenbosch, Noorbrabants Museum, Holland
1998 ‘Absolut Secret London and New York’, Royal College of Art, London and David McKee Gallery, New York
1998 Glasgow Print Studio, The British Council, New Delhi and tour in India
1997 ‘New Generation of Asian Art’, Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago
1997 ‘Major Trends in Indian Art’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1997 ‘Rediscovering the Roots’, Contemporary Indian Art, Museo de la Nacion, Lima, Peru
1996 ‘Mask '96’, Royal Festival Hall, London
1996 ‘Absolut Secret’, Royal College of Art, London
1995 Contemporary Art Market, South bank Centre, London
1994 ‘Figure and Fantasy’, The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
1994 Gwyl Gelf Harlech Art Biennale, Gwynedd
1994 Contemporary Art Society Market, Royal Festival Hall, London
1993 Recent British Sculpture, Arts Council Collection, Museum and Art Gallery, Derby and tour
1993 Alive and Printing, Mclellan Galleries, Glasgow
1993 Chelsea Harbour Sculpture'93, London
1992 ‘Drawing from Imagination’, Morley Gallery, London
1992 Millfield British 20th Century Sculpture Exhibition, Somerset
1991 ‘Recent Acquisitions’, Laing Art Gallery, Mayor Gallery, London
1991 ‘Twentieth Century Sculptors Drawings’, Wilson Stephen Fine Arts, London
1991 ‘Mavericks’, Friends Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1990 ‘Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition’, Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Japan
1990 ‘Fragments’, Fifth Street Gallery, London
1989 ‘Images of Paradise’, Terrace Gallery, Harwood House, Yorkshire
1988 ‘Gujarati Indian Artists’, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester
1988 ‘Acquisitions: Modern Collection’, Tate Gallery, London
1987 ‘Works for Shelves: A System of Support’, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge
1987 ‘The Self Portrait, A Contemporary View’, Art Site Gallery, Bath
1986 ‘Living Art, Ideal Home Exhibition’, London
1985 ‘A Journey Through Contemporary Art’, Hayward Gallery, London
1985 ‘Proud and Prejudiced’, Twinning Gallery, New York
1984 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1983 Portland Clifftop Sculpture Park, Portland
1983 Peter Moore's Project 7, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and tour
1982 ‘Inaugural Exhibition’, Roopankar Museum, Bhopal
1982 Contemporary Indian Art at the Royal Academy, London
1981 Atul National Drawing Exhibition, Ahmedabad
1981 ‘Work in Progress’, Royal College of Art, London
Participations
2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010 'Summer exhibition', Royal Academy of Arts, London Art Fair, London
2001 10th Triennale-India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1999 Sculpture at Goodwood, Goodwood
1997 Sculpture at Goodwood, Goodwood
1996 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1995 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1992 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1991 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London(Jack Goldhill Award)
1989 Contemporary Art Fair, Bath International Festival, Bath
1988 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1986 14th Biennale Internazionale del Bronzetto e Piccola Scultura, Padua
1984 ‘Festival Sculpture’, International Garden Festival, Liverpool
1982 5th Triennale-India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1980-83 ‘Drawing Exhibition’, Chandigarh Museum, Chandigarh (Award 1982)
1980 Bombay Art Society, Bombay and Trade Fair, New Delhi
1978-80 National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1979 ‘Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Lalit Kala Akademi’, New Delhi and Chennai
Honours and Awards
2006 Award of Excellence by Gujarat Gaurav Samiti
2001 Awarded...
2006 Award of Excellence by Gujarat Gaurav Samiti
2001 Awarded Honorary CBE(Commander of the most excellent Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth, London
1999 Appointed Professor, Head of Sculpture and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Baroda
1998 Selected for the Millennium Medal Competition, London
1995 Design and President's Award, Victoria Square Sculptures
1995 The Landscape Institute and Marsh Fountain of the Year Award
1994 Selected for a One Man Show, Asian Artist Today- Fukuoka Annual VII Exhibition, organized by Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1994 Award for the Design of Humanities Prize Medal, London
1993 Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London
1993 Humanities Prize Medal, London
1993 Design and President's Award for Victoria Square Sculptures, The Landscape Institute and The Marsh Fountain of the Year Award for Victoria Square, Birmingham
1992 Commissioned Sculptor of the Victoria Square by the City Council of Birmingham
1992 The Civic Trust, Woodhouse and the Renaissance Awards for Victoria Square, UK
1991 Elected Associate Member and Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1991 Jack Goldhill Award, ‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London and short-listed for Korn/Ferry International Premier Award
1990 Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, Japan (represented Britain)
1988 Sculptor in Residence, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1983 Madame Taussaud's Award at the Royal College of Art, London
1983 Artist in Residence, Arts Council of GB and Kettle's Yard Gallery with a Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge
1980-83 ‘Drawing Exhibition’, Chandigarh Museum, Chandigarh (Award 1982)
1981 Awarded British Council Scholarship for the Royal College of Art, London (1981-83)
1979 Gold Medal with Distinction, B.A. Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, The M.S. University of Baroda
1977 Baroda Municipal Corporation Art Exhibition, Baroda
1976,'78 Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy, Ahmedabad
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