ISHA MAHAMMAD

BEGINNINGS

1968 Invited by Federal Republic of Germany for study tour. Visited London and Paris. Member, Calcutta Painters Group, Calcutta. 1982 Judge, Exhb. of State Lalit Kala Akademi, Jammu and Kashmir. 1983, 90, 94 Judge, Exhb. of State Lalit Kala Akademi, West Bengal. 1987-88 Member of the Senate, Calcutta University, Calcutta. 1993 Member, Executive Committee, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. Till 1994 Art Purchase Committee member, India Museum, Calcutta. Member, Art Advisory Committee, Deptt. of Culture, Govt. of West Bengal. Council member, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta. Member, Advisory Committee, Lalit Kala Akademi, Calcutta. 1987 His painting titled Victim-1 was sent to Beijing, under Indo-China Cultural Exchange Programme by Naional Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Lives and works in Kolkata.

EDUCATION

• 1958 Diploma in Drawing and Painting, Govt. College of Art and Craft, Calcutta.
• 1958 Passed Teachers Training Art Appreciation Certificate, Calcutta University, Calcutta.
• 1964 Passed Pre-University Examination, Calcutta University, Calcutta.
• 1968 Trained in Graphic Art, Dusseldorf Academy, West Germany.

EXHIBITIONS

• 1955, 58, 59, 61 Group exhb., Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta.
• 1960 Solo exhb. in Darjeeling.
• 1964 Solo exhb., Indo American Society, Calcutta.
• 1967, 69 Solo exhb., AIFACS, New Delhi.
• 1967, 69, 70, 87 National Exhb., Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
• 1968 Solo exhb., West Germany.
• 1969 Solo exhb., Alliance Franaise, Calcutta.
• 1971, 72, 74, 78, 79, 80-99 All India Exhb., Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta.
• 1986 Trends in Bengal Art, Commonwealth Institute, London.
• 1987 Solo exhb., Bedford Hill Gallery, London.
• 1990 Solo exhb., Genesis Art Gallery, Calcutta.
• 1992 Solo exhb., Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi.
• 1993, 2002 Invited to participate in 6th and 10th Biennale of Asian Art, Dhaka.
• 1994 Solo exhb., Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay.
• 1997 Solo exhb., Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta.
• 1997 Solo exhb., Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai.
• 1999 A Retrospective 1956-1999, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta.

COLLECTION

• National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
• Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
• Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata.
• State Academi of Art, Manipur.
• Academi of Art and Culture, Jammu and Kashmir.
• Museum fur Indische Kinst, Delhem, Berlin.
• Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.

AWARDS

• 1956 Award in graphic art, Calcutta University Institute, Calcutta.
• 1972 Award in painting, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Vice- Principal and Principal, Govt. College of Art and Craft, Calcutta. 1994 Retired, Govt. College of Art and Craft, Calcutta.

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