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Raghav Kaneria
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Raghav Kaneria is an abstract sculptor who works largely with industrial materials. He manipulates industrial metal and other found objects to echo his rural early life in works like the Bull series (1959) and Jumping Calf (1978).
Kaneria was born in Gujarat in 1936 to an agrarian family which had a lasting impact on his practice. In 1955, he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, where...
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Raghav Kaneria is an abstract sculptor who works largely with industrial materials. He manipulates industrial metal and other found objects to echo his rural early life in works like the Bull series (1959) and Jumping Calf (1978).
Kaneria was born in Gujarat in 1936 to an agrarian family which had a lasting impact on his practice. In 1955, he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, where he studied under Sankho Chaudhuri and K G Subramanyan . It was there that he gravitated towards working with scrap metal.
He was a member of the short-lived artist collective Group 1890, formed in 1962, which believed that, “Art is neither conformity to reality nor a flight from it, it is reality itself, a whole new world of experience, the threshold of passage into the world of freedom.” Kaneria was the sole sculptor to exhibit as part of the group at Rabindra Bhavan in 1963.
The artist studied at the Royal College of Art, where he worked with Bernard Meadows, from 1964 to 1967 on a Commonwealth scholarship. In 1967, he won the Sainsbury award. He taught at the Walthamstow School of Art, London in the 1960s before joining Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU as Reader. He went on to become Sculpture Department Chair until retirement in 1996.
Raghav Kaneria was part of the Commonwealth Art Exhibition in 1962 and Bernard Meadows at the Royal College of Art, 1960–1980 in 1980, in addition to having his works exhibited at Fukuoka Art Museum in 1979; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in 1980; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1982; Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 1983; Pushkin Museum, Moscow in 1987; and the Delhi Art Gallery in 2015 and 2016. He has exhibited in countries across the globe like France, Switzerland, Japan, Russia, Germany, Belgium, United States, and Canada among others.
He has won many awards like the Lalit Kala Akademi National Awards in 1959 and 1963, a National Scholarship from 1960 to 1962, Bombay Art Society Awards (Gold Medal, Silver Medal and other prizes), All India Sculptor’s Association Silver Medal in 1960, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society President of India’s Silver Plaque in 1960, Kala Ratna from All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society in 2001, and Kalidas Samman from Madhya Pradesh Government in 2013. He has also been feted by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (New Delhi, India), Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi (Ahmedabad), Society of Contemporary Artists (Kolkata, India) and Gujarat Kala Pratisthaan (Surat, India).
His works are part of many important collections in India and abroad like including those of Art Council of Great Britain (London), Ministry of Education (Government of India, New Delhi), Royal College of Art (London), Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge (England), Lalit Kala Akademi (New Delhi, India), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (India), Birla Academy Museum (Kolkata, India), National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA, India), Salar Jung Museum (India), the
Air India collection. Some of his works are on display at the Subhash Chandra Bose Park (Kochi, India), and the Allen Memorial Art Museum (USA).
Raghav Kaneria lives and works between the United States and India.
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Born
1936
Gujarat
Education
1968 MA (Arts), Royal College of Arts, London
1967 A. R. C. A. from Royal College of Arts, London
1964-67 Commonwealth Scholarship by British Government to study at Royal College of Arts, London
1959 Diploma in Sculpture from Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1984 Mumbai
1963...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1984 Mumbai
1963 Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 'Baroda: A Tale of Two Cities', (Part I), Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
1996 Eminent Artist Group Show by the Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Kolkata
1995 Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Mumbai
1995 lowa University, Ohio, USA
1992 ‘The Other Way of Seeing’, Museum Voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, Holland.
1992 ‘West Zone Artist’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1988 Art Council Exhibition, Frankfurt, Germany
1987 Ottobrunn, F.R. Germany
1987 Musee of Trade, Zurich, Switzerland.
1987 Musee de Lgelysee, Lausanee
1987 Museum of Ethnology, Cologne, Germany
1987 Rautenstrauch Joest Museum, Berne, Switzerland.
1983 ‘Indian Sculpture today: 1983’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1980 Bernard Meadows at The Royal College of Arts 1960 – 1980 by the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge, England
1979 Asia Artist Exhibition, Part One by Fukuoka Art Museum, Tokyo
1978 Traveling Exhibition, which was shown in Moscow, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Sofia, Tehran, Damascus and Baghdad.
1968 Burlington House, Loudwater, England.
1963 ‘Group 1890’, New Delhi
Joint Exhibitions
2000 Admit One Gallery, New York
1991 Navdeep Art Gallery, Ahmedabad
1991 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1990 Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi
Participations
2008-09 'Paz Mandala', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1993 2nd International Photo Festival of Child and Young Adult, Soreh Photo, Tehran, Iran
1991 Festival of India in Germany
1991 7th Triennial India, New Delhi
1988 Festival of India in Russia, ‘Pratibimb’, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
1987 The Mumbai Arts Festival, Mumbai
1982,83,84,85,89 Traveling Exhibition of 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 13th Photo Contest in Asia and Pacific in the main cities of Japan, Burma, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Republic of Korea, China, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Maldives and India
1981 Exhibition in Festival of India on the Living Art of India by Art Council of Great Britain. At the Sepentath Art Gallery, London, Cardiff, Glasgow, Bradford and Sheffield
1975 II India Triennial International. Antwerp, Belgium
1975 13 Middelheim Sculpture Biennial, Antwerp, Belgium
1967 Expo 67, Montreal, Canada
1961 Commonwealth Art Exhibition, London
1959 Paris Biennale, Paris
Honours and Awards
2001 Kala Ratna – ‘Art Jewel’ Award from All India Fine Arts and Crafts...
2001 Kala Ratna – ‘Art Jewel’ Award from All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1988 Okamoto Prize,13th Photo Contest in Asia and Pacific by A. C. C. of UNESCO, Tokyo
1984 Sunpak Prize, 9th Photo Contest in Asia and Pacific by A. C. C. of UNESCO, Tokyo
1983 Yakult Prize, 8th Photo Contest in Asia and Pacific by A. C. C. of UNESCO, Tokyo
1982 Grand-Prix Shield and Top prize, 7th Photo Contest in Asia and Pacific by A. C. C. of UNESCO, Tokyo
1981 Yakult prize, 6th Photo Contest in Asia and Pacific by A. C. C. OF UNESCO, Tokyo
1976, 77 Bronze Medal, Nikon Photo Contest International, Tokyo
1972 Visiting Foreign Artist Fellowship, Hull College of Arts, England
1967 Sir Robert Sainsbury Award, London
1963 National Award of Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
1962 The Mouj Printing Bureau’s Prize of Mumbai Arts Society, Mumbai
1962 Gold Medal of Mumbai Arts Society, Mumbai
1961 First prize of Gujarat State Arts Exhibition, Surat
1961 Silver Medal of Mumbai Arts Society, Mumbai
1960-62 Cultural Scholarship form Government of India to study under Prof. Sankho Chaudhuri at Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda
1960 President of India’s Silver Plaque of All India Fine Arts and Craft Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1960 Governor’s Prize of Mumbai Art Society, Mumbai
1960 Tamara Patra of Mumbai State Arts Exhibition, Ahmedabad
1960 Silver Medal of All India Sculptor’s Association, Mumbai
1959 Tamara Patra of Bombay State Arts Exhibition, Pune
1959 National Award of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
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