Anjolie Ela Menon
“Anjolie Ela Menon (born 1940) is one of India’s leading contemporary female artists.”
Education
Bachelors in Literature, Delhi University, Delhi
1959-61: Atelier Fresque, EcoleNationale des Beaux Art, Paris
“Anjolie Ela Menon (born 1940) is one of India’s leading contemporary female artists.”
Education
Bachelors in Literature, Delhi University, Delhi
1959-61: Atelier Fresque, EcoleNationale des Beaux Art, Paris
Born
1940 – Burnpur, WestBengal, India
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 2013 ‘Recent Paintings’, Grosvenor Vadehra, London
• 2013 Institue of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai
• 2010 ‘Through the Patina’, organized by Vadhera Art Gallery at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
• 2007 ‘Menongitis-Three Generations Of Art’, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
• 2006 ‘Celebration’, Gallery ArtsIndia West, Palo Alto
• 2005 ArtsIndia West, Palo Alto
• 2004 Gallery ArtsIndia, New York
• 2003 Vadehra Art Gallery at Shridharani Gallery, Delhi
• 2002 ‘Four Decades’, Vadehra Art Gallery at National Art of Modern Art(NGMA), Mumbai, Karnataka ChitrakalaParishad, Bangalore
• 2000 ‘Gods and others’, Apparao Galleries at Admit One Gallery, New York
• 1996 Vadhera Art Gallery, Hong Kong
• 1996 Mutations, organized by The Gallery, Madras, at Wallace Galleries, New York
• 1988 ‘Retrospective 1958-88’, organized by The Times of India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1976 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
• 1963 Alliance Francaise, Mumbai
• 1959 Gallery 59, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
• 2014 ‘Immutable Gaze Part I: Masterpieces of Modern and Pre-Modern Indian Art’, Aicon Gallery, New York
• 2013 ‘Remaking the Modern: An Indian Modern & Contemporary Art Exhibition’, AlonZakaim Fine Art, Dover Street
• 2013 ‘Glimpses of I am the Tiger’, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi
• 2013 ‘Ideas of the Sublime’, presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
• 2013 ‘QUARTO ’13’, Art Musings, Mumbai
• 2013 ‘The Drawing Wall’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2013 ‘Color My World’, presented by Mahua Art Gallery at Leela Galleria and Windsor Manor, Bangalore
• 2013 ‘Edge of Reason- and beyond, into pure creativity’, presented by Indian Art Circle at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
• 2012 ‘Talking Heads’, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
• 2012 ‘Iconic Processions’, Aicon Gallery, New York
• 2012 ‘Gallery Collection’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2012 ‘Women: Sacred and the Temporal’, Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
• 2012 ‘Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art’, prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai
• 2011 ‘The Lost Sparrow’, presented by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
• 2011 ‘Masterclass’, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2010 ‘Figure/Landscape – Part One’, Aicon Gallery, New York
• 2009-10 ‘Unclaimed Spaces’, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
• 2009,10 ‘Master Class’, The Arts Trust, Mumbai
• 2009 ‘Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin’, Emile Lowe Gallery, Hempstead
• 2009 ‘In Search of the Vernacular’, Aicon Gallery, New York
• 2009 ‘Kalpana: Figurative Art in India’, presented by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London; The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)
• 2008 ‘X at the rate of Jehangir’, presented by Art Musings at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2008 ‘Mapping Memories – 2, Painted Travelogues of Bali and Burma, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
• 2007 ‘Sitaaray – A Galaxy of Artists’, Indian Habitat Centre, Delhi
• 2005 ‘Drishti’, Bodhi Art Gallery, New York
• 2004 ‘Confluence 2004’, Gallery ArtsIndia, New York
• 2004 ‘Jiva- Life, Contemporary Indian Painting’, Bodhi Art Gallery, New York 2001 Saffronart and Apparao Galleries, Los Angeles 2001 Saffronart, Hong Kong
• 2001 ‘Kitsch KitschHotaHai’, organized by Gallery Espace, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
• 2001 ‘The Sacred Prism III’, organized by Apparao Gallery, London, New York, San Francisco
• 1993 ‘Reflections and Images’, Vadehra Art gallery at Jehangir Art gallery, Mumbai
• 1986 ‘Indian Women Artists’, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
• 1980 Exhibition at Washington D.C and New York
Participations
• 2015 ‘Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection’, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
• 2013 ‘Palette Summer 2013’, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2012 ‘Art for Humanity’, Coomaraswamy Hall, ChhatrapatiShivajiMaharajVastuSangrahalaya, Mumbai
• 2011 ‘Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2011 ‘Resonance’, Art Musings, Mumbai
• 2010 ‘Art Celebrates 2010: Sports and the City’, represented by Art Alive Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games
• 2010 ‘Art Dubai 2010’, presented by Aicon Gallery, New York
• 2010 ‘Manifestations IV’, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2010 ‘ARCO 2010 Madrid’, presented by Aicon Gallery, London
• 1980 Paris Biennale, Paris, France
• 1968,71,75 1st,2nd,3rd International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
Honours and Awards
• 2000 Awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India
• 1959-61 Received French Government Scholarship for Higher Studies in Paris
• 1980-81 Invited to study by The Government of France, UK and USA