Nayanaa Kanodia

Nayanaa Kanodia graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi in Economics (Honours). She won the National Scholarship of the Govt of India. An economist turned painter, Nayanaa is entirely a self-taught artist except for a year's apprenticeship with Anjolie Ela Menon.  She had her first solo show in 1986 in Mumbai and has held numerous solo exhibitions since then in India and abroad. In 1998, she was selected by The Commonwealth Institute from all the artists of the Commonwealth Countries for a solo show in their recently renovated complex in London. In 2001 she was invited by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London to exhibit her paintings and to give a demonstration of her painting techniques. She is the first Indian of non-British origin whose works are in the collection of "Paintings in Hospitals", UK previously named as a British Museum.  She has participated in many group shows nationally and internationally including the ones in New York in 1988, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai in 1997 and 1998, Dubai in 1998, 2012, London in 2001, 2002, 2006, 2012, Centre Regional D'Art Contemporain, Sete, France in 2001, Washington in 2001, Paris in 2002, Hong Kong in 2005, 2012, Singapore in 2006, 2011, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo in 2007, Johannesburg, South Africa in 2007.  She has conducted Art Camps in India and abroad. Her work also features in several auctions of Indian Contemporary Art internationally. Nayanaa's works are held in many major public and private collections in India and abroad including the Musée International d'Art Naïf, Paris. She is featured in a prestigious international book Women in Art by Reinhard Fuchs