Kiran Murdia
Over the years Kiran Murdia has evolved a distinct style of her own based on miniature traditions of Rajasthan. For years she exploited the inherent aesthetic elements from miniature paintings and managed to overcast a pleasing landscape imagery of Udaipur city. Even today she paints landscapes but her intimate contact developed during all these years with objects like hills, rocks, boulders, water springs and also flora and fauna of Udaipur has generated new insight into the deeper meaning of landscape. The Udaipur landscape still remains a source of reverie, but the centrifugal points in her new works are now accentuated by an abstract delineation. It is achieved through a continuous struggle of overplayed layers employing rollers and splashes of solvents on canvass. Now her canvases are overloaded with innumerable tactile effects. The warmth of the pigment is felt as a strong physical presence. She paints Udaipur city landscapes with its milieu. They are lyrical. Their lyricism, flows from heightened moments of perception during which nature take on the aspect of an apparition, hovering between reality and unreality. The tension between factual and unreal lends a dramatic character to kirans paintings which could at times be ironical too. But, she balances the ironic and the absurd with nostalgia a feeling that has persisted along with her concern for the sensuous as well as spiritual appeal of the Udaipur landscape S.N JOSHI
Edudation
M.A Drawings & Painting, University of Udaipur, 1972
Awards
1971 Tulika Kalakar Parishad, Udaipur - Gold Medal
1974 Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, Jaipur
1976 Tulika Kalakar Parishad, Udaipur
1980 Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, Jaipur
1986 Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, Jaipur
1989 Lalit Kala Akademi Award, New Delhi
Distinct Exhibition
1975 ' Trinnale' - India
1975 Annual Exhibition of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1989 ' Nature and Environment ' Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1989 Bangladesh Biennale, Dhaka
1990 Bharat Bhavan Print Biennale, Bhopal
2001 Bharat Bhavan Print Biennale, Bhopal
1999 ' Rajasthan Ke Rang ' - Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, Jaipur
and several time participations in celebrated and annual exhibition of
Academy of Fine Art, Kolkatta, Bombay Art society, Mahakaushal kala
parishad, Raipur, Fine Art Academy Amritsar, City Bank Show Bombay,
Birla Akademi Bombay, All India Exhibition, Lucknow ( U.P ) Prayas
Exhibition at A.I.F.A.C.S. Delhi and Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur. Golden
Jubli Exhibition L.K.A, New Delhi, Chandigarh, Chennai, Bangalore,
Ahmedabad, Kobe, Japan, Stuttgart Art Gallery, Germany, Spirit of Indian
Art Exhibition, Kuwait, Milan, Italy
Scholarships and Fellowships
2000 Honoured by Mahaveer Yuva Manch, Udaipur
1986 Research grant for Graphic by Lalit Kala Akademy at Garhi Studio, New Delhi
1998 - 98 Fellowship by Ministery of H.R.D, New Delhi
One Person Show
1972 Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi
1974 Ravindra Manch, Jaipur
1986 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 Juneja Art Gallery, Jaipur
2002 Information Center, Udaipur
2003 City Palace,Udaipur
Camps
1986 - 87 Graphic Camps, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi & Masxmuller Bhawan
1990 Painters Camp at Jammu and Kashmir Academy
1993 Painters Workshop at Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
1991 Artist Camp by " Hastaksher " , Jaipur
1997 Painter Camp at L.V Prasad Eye Institue, Hyderabad
1998 Painter Camp, Suraj - kund, Haryana tourism
1997 Mulitmedia Camp at Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, Jaipur
1998 Women Artists Camp at Shilpgram, Udaipur by ' Chiteri ' & W.Z.C.C., Jaipur
1999 Women Artists Camp at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
Organizational Work
1978 Elected on the General Council of Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi
1983 Member - Advisory Committee Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
Founder Member of ' Aaj ' Society, Udaipur ( Raj. )
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