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Manisha Parekh
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Having well known painters Manu and Madhavi Parekh for parents, Manisha Parekh grew up surrounded by paints and brushes. She formalized her artistic upbringing with her studies in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at M.S. University in Baroda, and at the Royal College of Art, London on an INLAKS scholarship. Today, Parekh has several of her own exhibitions under her belt, whether of her minimal, skillfully executed works in ink and...
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Having well known painters Manu and Madhavi Parekh for parents, Manisha Parekh grew up surrounded by paints and brushes. She formalized her artistic upbringing with her studies in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at M.S. University in Baroda, and at the Royal College of Art, London on an INLAKS scholarship. Today, Parekh has several of her own exhibitions under her belt, whether of her minimal, skillfully executed works in ink and gouache, her intricate layered pieces on board, or her more ambitious works in the area of conceptual, site-specific installations.
The essence of Parekh`s works, whether limited to, or extending beyond the canvas or board, has always been the fluid rhythmic structure she creates though her use of harmonious forms. The main thrust of Parekh’s style has always been that of clear, scientific structure. She has always shown a marked preference for form and texture, which has allowed her to concentrate on these elements over colour and tone. Exploring the densities, opacity and transparency of inks and papers, she is fascinated by the life they take on when in contact with various surfaces, seeming as if to almost animate it.
Using minimal color, she uses harmonious forms that are linked and unfold a larger vision. Sometimes an oval and a line meet and become something new. She has a continuing fascination with vessels, and breathes life into inanimate objects, which themselves take on connotations of the human body. Her earlier rugged brushwork has gradually evolved into loose strokes, and the handling of figures in her work in now done "to relax muscular as well as pictorial tension," as she says.
Parekh has exhibited extensively in India, Germany and the United Kingdom. She has also completed a stint as a teacher teaching at the M. S. University in Baroda. Some of Parekh’s solo exhibitions include ‘Wonder Woods’ at Bodhi Art, New York, in 2008; ‘Shadow Gardens’ at Berkeley Square Gallery and Saffronart, London, in 2006; ‘Memory Membrane’ at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, in 2006; Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2004, 2002, 2000 and 1999; Gallery Foundation for Indian Artists, Amsterdam, in 1999; Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, in 1996; Goethe-Institute, Bonn, in 1995; and IFA Gallery, Bonn, in 1995. Her work has been included in exhibits such as the Havana Biennale of 2001 and the Istanbul Biennale of 1999, and she has taken part in several residencies including the Erasmus exchange in Berlin and the Heinrich- Boll fellowship in Bonn. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.
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Born
1964
Education
1991-93 Master of Arts ( Painting), Royal College of Art, London
1988-90 Master of Arts (Painting), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1983-88 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 'Epipanies', presented by The...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 'Epipanies', presented by The Loft, Mumbai at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad City Museum, Mumbai
2012 'Being as One', Rohtas 2 Gallery, Lahore
2011 'Amber', Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2009 'Spining Secrets', Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi
2008 ‘Wonder Woods’, Bodhi Art, New York
2006 ‘Shadow Garden’, Berkeley Square Gallery, London
2006 ‘Memory Membrane’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2004 Nature Morte, New Delhi
2002 Nature Morte, British Council, New Delhi
2000 Nature Morte, Lokayata, New Delhi
1999 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Foundation for Indian Artists, Amsterdam
1999 Hungarian Centre, by Nature Morte, New Delhi
1996 Pundole Gallery, Mumbai
1995 IFA Gallery, Bonn, Germany
1995 Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi
1994 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS)Gallery, New Delhi
1991 Gallery 7, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 'Panoplism', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2012 '2 + 2 = 5', The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'Works on Paper- 2012', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2011-12 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011-12 'Serial Pursuits', Nature Morte, Berlin
2011 'Fragility', Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon
2011 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010-11 'Writing Visuals', The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata; W + K Exp, New Delhi
2010 'Nature Revisited', Aakriti Gallery, Kolkata
2010 'Size Matters or Does it?', Part2 at Latitude 28, New Delhi
2010 'Beyond Object hood', presented by Gandhara Art Gallery at Nandalal Bose Hall, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Kolkata
2010 'The Drawing Lab', Aicon Gallery, New York
2010 'Size Matters or Does it?', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2009 'Living of the Grid', Anant Art Centre, New Delhi
2009 'Vistaar II', presented by Seven Arts Limited at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Bapu', Saffronart, Mumbai
2008 'Fault Lines', Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 'Material/Im-material', Gallery Collection, Bodhi Art, Gurgaon
2008 'Of Personal Narratives And Journeys', Bodhi Art, Gurgaon
2008 ‘Fluid Structures - Gender and Abstraction in India (1970s – 2008)’, Vadehra Gallery, New Delhi
2007 ‘Does Size Matter II ?’, presented by Studio Confluence at Jehangir K S Nicholsan Gallery of Modern Art, National Centre of Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
2007 Studio Confluence, Mumbai
2007 'Indian Color', Keumsan Gallery, Seoul
2007 'Core Rhythms', Kitab Mahal, Mumbai
2007 Nature Morte, New Delhi
2007 'It's Here and Now: Young Voices from India', Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2006 ‘Myrrh’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 'Shadow Lines', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Span’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2005 ‘Are We Like This Only’, Vadehra Art Gallery, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2005 ‘Endless Terrain’, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2005 ‘Negotiating Matter/s’, Anant Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘Subtlety Minimally’, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2004 ‘Anticipation’, Fine Arts Resource, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 ‘Summer-Show’, Bose Pacia Modern, New York
2004 ‘Summer-Show’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2003 ‘An Apparent Calm Which Is In Fact A Perfectly Balanced Tension’, Grant Peirrie, Sydney
2003 ‘Highlights’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2003 ‘20x20’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2002 ‘New Paradigms’, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 ‘Heat’, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2001 ‘Three Contemporary Painters’, Bose Pacia, New York
2000 ‘Global View’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Embarkment’, Millennium Show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Beyond the Surface’, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai; Gallery Espace, New Delhi
1999 Studio Guenzani, Milan
1999 'Edge of the Century', British Council, New Delhi
1998 ‘Multimedia’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA)Gallery, Kolkata
1998 Khoj International Artists Workshop Open-Day, Modinagar, Gujarat
1998 ‘Ada Or Ador’, Nature Morte, Habitat Centre, New Delhi
1998 'New- Images, Perception, Creations', Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA)Gallery, Kolkata, New Delhi
1997 Khoj International Artists Workshop Open-Day, Modinagar & Exhibition, British Council, New Delhi
1997 Wasanii International Artists Workshop Exhibition, Nairobi, Kenya
1997 ‘Gift for India’, Sahmat, New Delhi
1997 ‘Pacaembu Façade’, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1997 ‘Cross Current’, Travel Exhibition, Norway
1996 ‘Recipe’, Eicher Gallery, New Delhi
1995 ‘Fastenzeit’, Gallery 68elf, Cologne, Germany
1995 ‘The Tent’, Atelierhaus, Bonn, Germany
1994 Gallery 7, Hong Kong
1994 Women Artists '94, SPA, Hyderabad
1993 ‘Turning Point’, Paton Gallery, London
1992 Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad
1992 ‘XI-XI Exhibition’, Royal College of Art, London
1988 Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad
Joint Exhibitions
2011 'Drawing the Line', with Pushpa Kumari at The Holden Gallery, Manchester
1999 With Dayanita Singh at Milan
Participations
2014 'Ode to Monumental: Celebration, Visuality, Ideology', presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2012 'Art for Humanity', Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2010 'Roots', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at The Park, Chennai
2010 'Size Matters...Or Does It? II', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2000 Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
2000 Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai
1999 Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
1993 Art Fair '93, Business Design Centre, London
1988 National Exhibition, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
1994-95 Residency at Heinrich-Boll-Stiftung Studio, Bonn, Germany
1993 Erasmus Award-Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin
1992 Residency at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1991-93 Inlaks Foundation Scholarship for Study at Royal College of Art, London
1991 Lalit Kala Akademi Award in Printmaking
1990-91 Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad
1994-95 Residency at Heinrich-Boll-Stiftung Studio, Bonn, Germany
1993 Erasmus Award-Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin
1992 Residency at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1991-93 Inlaks Foundation Scholarship for Study at Royal College of Art, London
1991 Lalit Kala Akademi Award in Printmaking
1990-91 Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad
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