Arpana Caur

Arpana Caur, born in 1954, has been exhibiting since 1974 across the globe. Her solo shows, apart from Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, and Chennai, have been held in galleries in London, Glasgow, Berlin, Amsterdam, Singapore, Munich, New York, and in the Stockholm and Copenhagen National Museums. Her retrospective of 40 years was held at the National Gallery of Modern Art Bangalore in 2016 with Svaraj Archive.  Her work can be seen in Museums of Modern Art in Delhi, Mumbai, Patna, Chennai, Jaipur, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Dusseldorf, Singapore, Bradford, Stockholm, Hiroshima, MOCA LA, Peabody Boston, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Victoria and Albert Museum London, and Svaraj Archive.  Was awarded a gold medal in the VIth International Triennale 1986 in Delhi and the AIFACS Award. Received the Lalit Kala Grant, the AIFACS Award, and was filmed by the BBC, Stockholm TV, and many Indian TV channels. She was commissioned by Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art to execute a large work for its permanent collection for the 50th anniversary of the Holocaust in 1995, and by Bangalore city and the city of Hamburg to do large non-commercial murals in public spaces. Since 1981, she has done three large non-commercial murals in Delhi.  She has a concern for the environment, time, spirituality, the condition of women, and growing violence in the world, rooted in the language of ancient Indian Sculptures and Miniatures.