ARTIST INFORMATION
Rini Dhumal
Born 1948 in Bengal, Rini completed her Masters in Painting from M.S.University, Baroda. She has held over 25 solo shows including those at Delhi, Mumbai, Baroda, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad in India; and Paris, Chile, Germany and Spain overseas. Her work has been exhibited in numerous group shows throughout India and abroad. She is a recipient of the Research Scholarship and Senior Fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource, New Delhi as well as a French Government scholarship to study in Paris. The awards to her credit include the Chancellors Gold Medal from Baroda; Governors Gold Medal from Calcutta; AIFACS Award; National Award of the Lalit Kala Academy and M. S. Randhawa Award- all three in New Delhi.
Rini lives and works in Baroda. Currently she is Professor and Head of Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, having obtained her M.A. in Fine Arts at Baroda University.
My Image by Rini Dhumal:
“I believe in art which speaks a universal language - which has a life of its own - one with a certain degree of permanence which portrays the feel and flow of life with all its coloured nuances and experience. A life lived to the full. A certain 'play fullness' permeates my works and portrays a deep inner psyche of the female, its joys, its traumas, the language is sensual, not merely cerebral. It has to have an instinctual relationship with nature and the world around us. Today one speaks of negating aesthetics - but can aesthetics ever be denied'? Can it be wiped out from this world which is so varied and beautiful?
The pictorial language of my works deals with myths and dreams - images from the real world and the subconscious with symbolic references - flying females which to me are associated with sexual desires, trees, fruits, etc. The female is not dormant but vibrates a latent power.
My experiments with multi-media techniques have helped each other. Whether it is lino cuts, serigraphs, glass painting, painting or the recent ceramic works they all have the same concern for human relationship and interaction. A lyrical thread weaves through these images by use of textures and tones.
I have no inhibition regarding any technique. Each medium speaks its own language, and expresses a significant expression within the frame through colour and line and the transparent psyche.”
Solo Exhibitions:
1974 - Triveni Gallery, New Delhi
1976 – Paris
1981 - Urja Arr Gallery, Baroda
1983 - Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1985 - University Austral De Chile, Valdivia, Chile
1985 - Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad
1986 - Gallery 7, Mumbai
1986 - Max Mueller Bhavan, Hyderabad
1987 - Vithi Art Gallery, Baroda
1987 - Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
1988 - Gallery 7, Mumbai
1990 - Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi
1990 - Gallerie Arts & Data, Frankfurt, Germany
1991 - Print Exhibition, Madrid, Spain
1991 - Sakshi Gallery, Madras
1992 - Gallery 7, Mumbai
1992 - Sakshi Gallery, Madras
1992 – Bangalore
1993 - Galerie Brita Printz, Madrid, Spain
1995 - Gallery 7, Mumbai
1995 - Art Today, New Delhi
1997 - Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 - Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1998 - Cetamies and Watercolour
1999 - Apparao Gallery, Madras
1999 - National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
Group Exhibitions:
1977-80 - "Group 8", Chandigarh
1977 - Lalit Kala Akademi, Hyderabad
1985 - "Indian Print Making Today", Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1986 - "Graphics Since 1965", Lalit Kala Akademi, Madras
1986 - Biennale of Contemporary Art, Bhopal
1989 - Jehangir Art Gallery - Centenary invitees Show, Mumbai
- Bombay 1989 - Arts Society Centenary Show, Mumbai
1990 - Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1990 - Sakshi Art Gallery, Madras
1992 - Wounds - C.I.M.A., Calcutta – Delhi
1992 - Arts Acre, Calcutta
1992 - Nest for Sparrow, Artist Centre, Mumbai
1992 - "Conference", Indo-French Exhibition, Calcutta
1993 - Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 - Souvenier De France, New Delhi
1993 - "Shradha", Mumbai
1993 - HApage Auction, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbal
1993 - Glass Painting, Salishi Art Gallery, Madras
1993 - "Wounds" - CJ.M.A. Gallery, Calcutta
1994 - Mobile Creches, New Delhi
1994 - Art for CRY, Mumbai - New Delhi
1996 - "Pastels" - Art Motif, New Delhi
1997 - 50 years of Independence Show
1997 - Cynaroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1997 - ARC'S Gallery, London
1997 - "Beasts" - The Gallery, Madras - New Delhi
1997 - 'Gouche' - Art Monf, New Delhi
2000 - Sans Tache Gallery, Mumbai
2000 - Nayika Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
International Exhibitions:
1975 - Print Biennale, France
1976 - Group Exhibition, Athens, Greece
1976 - Exhibition of"Atelier 17", University of California,
U.S.A.
1976 - Print Biennale, Madrid, Spain
1979 - 6th British international Print Biennale, U.K.
1980 – 3rd World Biennale, London, U.K.
1983 –“India in Prints", Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1985 - Contemporary Print Making in India, U.S.A.
1984-87 - Print Biennale, Berlin, Germany
1987 - Print Biennale, Cuba
1987 - Print Biennale, Yugoslavia
1987 - Festival of India, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
1990 - Asian European Biennale, Turkey
1991 - International Print Biennale, Taiwan Print Biennale Frechen, Germany
1991 - Indian Painting, Mainz, Germany
1999 - Society for Painter Printmakers, London
Grants and Awards
1972 - Chancellors Gold Medal
1974 - Governors Gold Medal Calcutta
1973-75 - Govt. of India Cultural Scholarship, worked under Prof K.G. Subramanram
1975-76 - French Govt. Scholarship, worked under Sir S.W Hayter at "Atelier 17", Paris and Krishna Reddy
1977 - Group 8 Award
1983-85 - Research Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi
1984 - AIFACS Award, New Delhi
1988 - National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1988 - M.S. Randhawa Award, AIFACS, New Delhi
1994-96 - Senior Fellowship, Ministry of Human Resource, New Delhi
1997 - Invited to be on the Governing Council of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
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