Krishen Khanna
Krishen Khanna
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Self taught artist1940 Imperial Service College, Windsor, EnglandPunjab University, Lahore
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 'Krishen Khanna: Drawings & Paintings', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi2015 'When the band begins to play...', Grosvenor Gallery, London2013 'A Celebration of Lines', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai2010 'Krishen Khanna: A Retrospective', presented by Saffronart, Mumbai at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi2008 'The Savage Heart', Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai2005 Saffronart and Berkeley Square Gallery, London2004 'An Airing' Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai2001 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi2001 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, New York1995 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai1994 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi1991 Gallery Espace, New Delhi1989 Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi.1986 Exhibition of drawings and paintings at Sarla Art Centre, Chennai1983 Exhibition of drawings, Garhi Studio, New Delhi1980 Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi1979 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi1975 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi1974 Black Partridge, New Delhi1973 Pundole Gallery, Mumbai1969 Photographs, Kunika-Chemould, New Delhi1969 Experimental Photographs, Pundole Gallery, Mumbai1966 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi1965 Egan Gallery, New York1964 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi1964 Watkins Art Gallery, American University, Washington D.C.1962 Kunika Art Centre1962 Leicester Galleries, London1961 Ashoka Gallery, Kolkata1961 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai1960 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi1960 Leicester Galleries, London1959 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi1958 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi1957 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi1955 USIS, Chennai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi2013 'Edge of Reason- and beyond, into pure creativity', presented by Indian Art Circle at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi2013 'The Discerning Eye: Modern Masters', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi2012 'Talking Heads', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi2011 'The Art of Drawing', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai2011 'Masterclass', Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi2010-11 'A Collection', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai2010 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai2010 '10 x 10', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi2010 'Black is Beautiful', India Fine Art, Mumbai2010 'Essential, Eclectic,...Ephemeral', The Harrington Mansions, Kolkata2009 'Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston2009 'Master Class', The Arts Trust, Mumbai2009 'Sacred and Secular', India Fine Art, Mumbai2009 '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 'Faces', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai2008 'Baisakh 08', Polka Art Gallery, New Delhi2004 ‘Concept and Form’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi2003 Exhibition of drawings, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai2003 Transition at UBS in London2003 'Of Memories, Dreams, Reverses', at Anant, New Delhi2001 'Living Legends of Indian Contemporary Art', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai2001 'In Conversations', Gallery Espace, New Delhi2001 Indian Art Circle, Habitat Centre, New Delhi2001 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, New York1999 'Mahabharat', Gallery 7, Mumbai1998 'The Probing Eye', an exhibition of Photographs, Surendra Paul Art Gallery, New Delhi1998 'Drawings', Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai1997 'Tryst with Destiny', Art from Modern India 1947-1997, Singapore Art Museum, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata1997 'Six Modern Masters', Kumar Gallery, New Delhi1996 Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings, Sothebys Auction, London1996 'A Tree in my Life', Village Gallery, New Delhi1996 'The Moderns', Inaugural Exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai1996 'The Mahabharata, The Card Player and The Scribe’, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi1995 'Indian Contemporary Paintings', Christie's Auction, London1995 'Bombay', presented by RPG Enterprises1995 'River of Art', Inaugural Exhibition, Art Today1994 'Indian Drawing Today', All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), organized by Gallery Espace, New Delhi1994 'The Solids', second Indian Drawing Biennale, exhibited as a special invitee1993 'Reflections and Images', Vadhera and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai1992 'Masters of Indian Art', Hotel Intercontinental, Mumbai1991 'Remembering Kali Pundole', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai1991 Birla Academy of Art, Anniversary Exhibition , Kolkata1991 'Addressing Gandhi', traveling exhibition by Sahmat1989 'Timeless Art', Exhibition and Auction1989 Sothebys in Mumbai1989 'Artist's Alert', exhibition and auction by Sahmat, New Delhi1984 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 7, Mumbai1982 'Modern Indian Painters' Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D. C.1982 'Contemporary Indian Art', Burlington House, London1982 'Myth and Reality', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK1981 Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar Museum, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal1981 'Indian Painting Today', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai1979 'Modern Asian Art', Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan1976 'Pictorial Space', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi1976 'Indian Painting 1977', Chandigarh, organized by Black Partridge Gallery1972 'Art Now', Kunika Chemould, New Delhi1972 'One World through Art', Ben and Abbey Grey Foundation, St. Paul, MN, USA1971 'Contemporary Indian Art', Renwick Gallery1971 Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.1970 'Art Now', Kunika Chemould, New Delhi1969 'Contemporary Art, Dialogue between East and West', Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan1969 'Indian Painters 69', Max Mueller Bhavan & Birla Academy, Kolkata1968 New Art Centre, London1966 Lincoln Centre, New York1965 'Ten Contemporary Artists from India' University of South Florida, Tampa; Jackson Art Museum, Jacksonville; Delgado Art Museum, New Orleans; Hunter Gallery, Chattanooga; Colorado Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Long Beach; Art Institute, San Francisco; East Wing Center, Honolulu1965 'Ten Contemporary Painters from India' MIT, Cambridge; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton.1964 'Six Artists in Black and White', Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi1963 'Contemporary Painters from India', Gallery 63, New York1963 'Eight Contemporary Artists from India', Lever House, New York1959 'Artists of Fame and of Promise', Leicester Galleries, London1959 'Trends in Contemporary Painting from India', Graham Gallery, New York1959 'Modern Indian Art', Cairo1959 'Contemporary Art from India', Essen, Dortmund, Zurich1959 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 59, Mumbai1956 'Eight Painters', Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society Building, New Delhi1952-53 Progressive Artists at Madras College of Art, Chennai1949 Progressive Artist Group, Chetna Restaurant, Mumbai1949 Progressive Artist Group, Artists Aid Centre
Joint Exhibitions
1985 Ram Kumar and Krishen Khanna , Gallery 7, Mumbai1954 With M F Husain at All India Fine Arts and Crafts society (AIFACS), New Delhi
Participations
2015 'Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection', Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York2014 'Ode to Monumental: Celebration, Visuality, Ideology', presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai2012 'Synergy 2012', 12th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi2011 'Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore2011 ‘Manifestations V', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi2011 'Celebration 2011', Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi2010 '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 Games2010 'Master’s Corner', organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; India International Art Fair, New Delhi2010 'Contemporary Printmaking In India', presented by Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai2010 Annual Exhibition, Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi2008-09 'Paz Mandala', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi2008 'Harvest 2008', organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi1991 The Fifth Biennale, Havana Cuba1988 First International Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan1988 Festival of India, Japan1987 Festival of India, USSR1987 'Coups de Coeur', Geneva1986 Baghdad International Festival of Art1982 International Triennale, New Delhi1976 25th Pugwash Conference, Chennai1975 3rd Triennale of Contemporary World Art, New Delhi1970 Expo '70, Indian Pavilion, Osaka, Japan1968 International Triennale, New Delhi1965 Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi , New Delhi1962 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi1962 Venice Biennale, Indian Participation1961 Tokyo Biennale1960 Sao Paulo Biennale1957 Tokyo Biennale1946 Annual Exhibition, Punjab Art Society
2016 'Krishen Khanna: Drawings & Paintings', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi2015 'When the band begins to play...', Grosvenor Gallery, London2013 'A Celebration of Lines', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai2010 'Krishen Khanna: A Retrospective', presented by Saffronart, Mumbai at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi2008 'The Savage Heart', Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai2005 Saffronart and Berkeley Square Gallery, London2004 'An Airing' Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai2001 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi2001 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, New York1995 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai1994 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi1991 Gallery Espace, New Delhi1989 Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi.1986 Exhibition of drawings and paintings at Sarla Art Centre, Chennai1983 Exhibition of drawings, Garhi Studio, New Delhi1980 Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi1979 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi1975 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi1974 Black Partridge, New Delhi1973 Pundole Gallery, Mumbai1969 Photographs, Kunika-Chemould, New Delhi1969 Experimental Photographs, Pundole Gallery, Mumbai1966 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi1965 Egan Gallery, New York1964 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi1964 Watkins Art Gallery, American University, Washington D.C.1962 Kunika Art Centre1962 Leicester Galleries, London1961 Ashoka Gallery, Kolkata1961 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai1960 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi1960 Leicester Galleries, London1959 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi1958 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi1957 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi1955 USIS, Chennai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi2013 'Edge of Reason- and beyond, into pure creativity', presented by Indian Art Circle at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi2013 'The Discerning Eye: Modern Masters', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi2012 'Talking Heads', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi2011 'The Art of Drawing', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai2011 'Masterclass', Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi2010-11 'A Collection', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai2010 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai2010 '10 x 10', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi2010 'Black is Beautiful', India Fine Art, Mumbai2010 'Essential, Eclectic,...Ephemeral', The Harrington Mansions, Kolkata2009 'Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston2009 'Master Class', The Arts Trust, Mumbai2009 'Sacred and Secular', India Fine Art, Mumbai2009 '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 'Faces', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai2008 'Baisakh 08', Polka Art Gallery, New Delhi2004 ‘Concept and Form’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi2003 Exhibition of drawings, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai2003 Transition at UBS in London2003 'Of Memories, Dreams, Reverses', at Anant, New Delhi2001 'Living Legends of Indian Contemporary Art', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai2001 'In Conversations', Gallery Espace, New Delhi2001 Indian Art Circle, Habitat Centre, New Delhi2001 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, New York1999 'Mahabharat', Gallery 7, Mumbai1998 'The Probing Eye', an exhibition of Photographs, Surendra Paul Art Gallery, New Delhi1998 'Drawings', Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai1997 'Tryst with Destiny', Art from Modern India 1947-1997, Singapore Art Museum, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata1997 'Six Modern Masters', Kumar Gallery, New Delhi1996 Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings, Sothebys Auction, London1996 'A Tree in my Life', Village Gallery, New Delhi1996 'The Moderns', Inaugural Exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai1996 'The Mahabharata, The Card Player and The Scribe’, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi1995 'Indian Contemporary Paintings', Christie's Auction, London1995 'Bombay', presented by RPG Enterprises1995 'River of Art', Inaugural Exhibition, Art Today1994 'Indian Drawing Today', All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), organized by Gallery Espace, New Delhi1994 'The Solids', second Indian Drawing Biennale, exhibited as a special invitee1993 'Reflections and Images', Vadhera and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai1992 'Masters of Indian Art', Hotel Intercontinental, Mumbai1991 'Remembering Kali Pundole', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai1991 Birla Academy of Art, Anniversary Exhibition , Kolkata1991 'Addressing Gandhi', traveling exhibition by Sahmat1989 'Timeless Art', Exhibition and Auction1989 Sothebys in Mumbai1989 'Artist's Alert', exhibition and auction by Sahmat, New Delhi1984 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 7, Mumbai1982 'Modern Indian Painters' Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D. C.1982 'Contemporary Indian Art', Burlington House, London1982 'Myth and Reality', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK1981 Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar Museum, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal1981 'Indian Painting Today', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai1979 'Modern Asian Art', Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan1976 'Pictorial Space', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi1976 'Indian Painting 1977', Chandigarh, organized by Black Partridge Gallery1972 'Art Now', Kunika Chemould, New Delhi1972 'One World through Art', Ben and Abbey Grey Foundation, St. Paul, MN, USA1971 'Contemporary Indian Art', Renwick Gallery1971 Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.1970 'Art Now', Kunika Chemould, New Delhi1969 'Contemporary Art, Dialogue between East and West', Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan1969 'Indian Painters 69', Max Mueller Bhavan & Birla Academy, Kolkata1968 New Art Centre, London1966 Lincoln Centre, New York1965 'Ten Contemporary Artists from India' University of South Florida, Tampa; Jackson Art Museum, Jacksonville; Delgado Art Museum, New Orleans; Hunter Gallery, Chattanooga; Colorado Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Long Beach; Art Institute, San Francisco; East Wing Center, Honolulu1965 'Ten Contemporary Painters from India' MIT, Cambridge; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton.1964 'Six Artists in Black and White', Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi1963 'Contemporary Painters from India', Gallery 63, New York1963 'Eight Contemporary Artists from India', Lever House, New York1959 'Artists of Fame and of Promise', Leicester Galleries, London1959 'Trends in Contemporary Painting from India', Graham Gallery, New York1959 'Modern Indian Art', Cairo1959 'Contemporary Art from India', Essen, Dortmund, Zurich1959 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 59, Mumbai1956 'Eight Painters', Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society Building, New Delhi1952-53 Progressive Artists at Madras College of Art, Chennai1949 Progressive Artist Group, Chetna Restaurant, Mumbai1949 Progressive Artist Group, Artists Aid Centre
Joint Exhibitions
1985 Ram Kumar and Krishen Khanna , Gallery 7, Mumbai1954 With M F Husain at All India Fine Arts and Crafts society (AIFACS), New Delhi
Participations
2015 'Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection', Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York2014 'Ode to Monumental: Celebration, Visuality, Ideology', presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai2012 'Synergy 2012', 12th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi2011 'Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore2011 ‘Manifestations V', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi2011 'Celebration 2011', Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi2010 '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 Games2010 'Master’s Corner', organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; India International Art Fair, New Delhi2010 'Contemporary Printmaking In India', presented by Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai2010 Annual Exhibition, Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi2008-09 'Paz Mandala', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi2008 'Harvest 2008', organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi1991 The Fifth Biennale, Havana Cuba1988 First International Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan1988 Festival of India, Japan1987 Festival of India, USSR1987 'Coups de Coeur', Geneva1986 Baghdad International Festival of Art1982 International Triennale, New Delhi1976 25th Pugwash Conference, Chennai1975 3rd Triennale of Contemporary World Art, New Delhi1970 Expo '70, Indian Pavilion, Osaka, Japan1968 International Triennale, New Delhi1965 Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi , New Delhi1962 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi1962 Venice Biennale, Indian Participation1961 Tokyo Biennale1960 Sao Paulo Biennale1957 Tokyo Biennale1946 Annual Exhibition, Punjab Art Society
Honours and Awards
2011 Padma Bhushan, Government of India2004 Lalit Kala Ratna from The President of India1997 Kala Ratna, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society(AIFACS), New Delhi1990 Padma Shri, Government of India1989 Gold Medal, First International Biennale of Art, Lahore, Pakistan1989 Sahitya Kala Parishad Award, New Delhi1986 Presidents Award at Baghdad International Festival of Art1965 Award, Lalit Kala Akademi Annual Exhibition, New Delhi1965 Fellowship of the Council for Economic and Cultural Affairs, New York1964 Artist–in-Residence, American University, Washington DC.1962-63 Fellowship Rockefeller Council, New York1962 Travel Fellowship by Council for Economic and Cultural Affairs, New York1955 Commendation, Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai1955 Saurashtra Government Award for Oil Painting