EDUCATION
- Self-taught, brief stint at the Indore Art College,
Indore.
EXHIBITIONS
1950 Bombay Art Societys Salon, Bombay. 1955 National
Exhb., Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. 1956 Exhb. in
Zrich and Prague. 1960 Exhb. in Rome and Frankurt. 1960
Exhb., Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta. 1964 Exhb., Dhoomimal
Art Gallery, New Delhi. 1965 Exhb. in Baghdad and Kabul.
1967 Exhb. in New York, Poland and Czechoslovakia. 1968
Exhb., Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay. 1969 21 Years of
Painting, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay. 1982 Contemporary
Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London. 1982 India:
Myth and Reality: Aspect of Contemporary Indian Art,
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. 1982 Modern Indian Painting,
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC. 1982 Six Indian Painters,
Tate Gallery, London. 1986 Contemporary Indian Art,
Grey Art Gallery, New York. 1986 Indian Art Tomorrow,
The Phillips Collections, Washington DC. 1986 Sistas
Art Gallery, Kala Yatra, Bangalore. 1987 Coups de Coeur,
Halles de Llle Geneva. 1994 Exhb., Pundole Art Gallery,
Bombay. 1994 Exhb., Art Today,
COLLECTION
Ebrahim Alkazi and Art Heritage, New Delhi. Masanori
Fukuoka and Glenbarra Museum, Hemeji. Chester and Davida
Herwtiz Collection, Boston, USA. Lalit Kala Academy,
New Delhi. Jehangir Nicholson Collection, Bombay. National
Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Delhi Art Gallery,
New Delhi.
AWARDS
1968 Won the Golden Bear for his film `Through the
Eyes of a Painter`. Received Honourary Doctorates, Benaras
Hindu University, Benaras, Jamia Millia Islamia, New
Delhi and Mysore University, Mysore. Awarded Padma Shri
and Padma Bhushan, Govt. of India. 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna,
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
STYLE
Husain experimented extensively with forms and formats
of painting and also other forms of visual art.
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