BIO-DATA
DEEPAK KHANDELWAL
BORN 1974, Rajgarh (Alwar) Rajasthan INDIA
QULIFICATION
1999 M.F.A. in Printmaking from M.S. University, Baroda.
1996 B.F.A. in Painting from Rajasthan School Art, Jaipur.
AWARDS
2000, 2002, 09 State Award for Print by Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy, Jaipur.
1998,2000,02 Award by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in VI, VIII & X Kala Mela at Jaipur.
1998 Merit Certificate in 7th All India Exhibition of Art (Avantika Group), New Delhi.
1994 First State Yuva Kalakar Prartiyogita by Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur.
SCHOLARSHIPS
2000 Grant of Scholarship for Printmaking by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
1998-2000 National Scholarship for Printmaking by Ministry of HRD. Govt.Of India,New Delhi.
1995-1999 Merit Scholarship for Printmaking by Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademy, Jaipur.
ONE MAN & GROUP SHOWS
2010 RIGHT ARROW" - Two Man Show, Juneja Art Gallery , Jaipur
2009 Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
2008 Visual Art gallery, India Habitat Centre New Delhi
2005 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2005 ‘CORRESPONDING LATITUDES’ an Indo-Australian Painters Art Exhibition at Kick
Art Center, Quwensland, Australia.
2005 Nayala Art Gallery, Jaipur.
2004 Ta blu Art Gallery, Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur.
2004 Samanvai Art Gallery, Jaipur.
2003 U.S. Embassy, New Delhi.
2003 Jazz Art Gallery, Jaipur.
2002 Surekh Art Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra,Jaipur.
2002 Art Junction, Hotel Inter Continental, New Delhi.
2001 Welcome Art Gallery, Welcome Group Hotel Rajputana Palace Seheratan,Jaipur.
2000-01 ‘WE-13 Printmakers’ (Touring Print Show) at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, College of
Art Chandigarh, Ravi Shankar Kala Bhawan Art Gallery, Ahamdabad & Ravindra
Bhawan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
2000-01 ‘Graphic Expression’ (Touring Print Show) at Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, C.P. Art
Center Chennai, Art Today Gallery, New Delhi & Kolkatta.
2000 ‘Print Show’ at Akar- Prakar Art Gallery, Jaipur.
2000 Ravindra Bhawan Art Gallery, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
1999 ‘LET-SEE’ Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University Baroda.
1995-2003 ‘Kala Mela’ at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur Organized by Rajasthan Lalit Kala
Academy, Jaipur.
1995 Parijat-II Art Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur.
1995 Information Center, Govt. of Rajasthan, Alwar.
CAMPS & WORKSHOPS
2009 National Artists Camp in Kochi by Kerla lalit Kala Academi, Ernakulam, Kerala
2007 Artist Camp organized by Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy, Jaipur
2004 Printmakers Camp at Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra, Lucknow.
2003 Printmakers Camp at Rajasthan School of Art, Jaipur.
2002 All India Printmakers Camp organized by ‘AFFA’ at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur.
2001 All India Painters Camp organized by AIFACS, New Delhi.
2000 All India Printmakers Workshop at ‘TAKHMAN-28’ Udaipur, organized by Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra Lucknow.
1998 Multi Media Workshop at Kala Mela, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
1998 International Printmakers Workshop At Faculty of Fine Arts,Baroda.
1997 ‘Painters Kala Chetna Shiveer’ at Information Center, Alwar.
1995-2000, 03 Conducted Water Colour, Clay Modeling and Graphics Workshop for Children’s at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
MAJOR PARTICIPATIONS
2002 Visualizing Coordinator in ‘Jaipur Heritage Utsav’ organized by INTECH, Jaipur.
2001 International Annual Print Exhibition organized by ‘EX-LUBRIS’ Canada.
2001 All India Drawing Exhibition organized by Punjab Lalit Kala Academy, Chandigarh.
2000-2001 ‘Contemporary Art of Rajasthan’ (Touring Exhibition) at Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal, Lalit Kala Academy, Lucknow, Mahatma Gandhi art Gallery, Allahabad, Koto, Goa, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur organized by Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy, Jaipur.
2000-2001 National Exhibition of Art, organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
2000 All India Millennium Art Exhibition (State Level) organized by AIFACS, New Delhi.
2000 ‘REALISM’ the Easel Art Gallery, Chennai.
1999 2000, Meter Long Canvas (painting) at Kankriya Lake, Ahemdabad.
1999 ‘RINDEZEVOUS’ All India Art Exhibition at Chandigarh.
1999 All India Art Exhibition by Indian Academy of Fine Art, Amritsar.
1999 All India Art Exhibition by AIFACS, New Delhi.
1999 All India Art Exhibition by S.C.Z.C.C. Nagpur.
1998 Annual Art Exhibition by Gujarat Lalit Kala Academy Ahemdabad.
1998 All India Drawings Exhibition by Lalit Kala Academy, Jaipur.
1998 All India Prints Exhibition at Tasmiya Art House, Gulbarga.
1996-2002 Annual State Art Exhibition by Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy, Jaipur.
COLLECTION
State Gallery of Modern Art, Jaipur, Ms. Timmi Kumar ( Hotel Clarks Amer) Jaipur Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy, Jaipur, Juneja Art Gallery, Jaipur Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur ,Advocate Mr. Rohan Shah, Mumbai Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra, Lucknow,West Zone Culture Center, Udaipur,Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai Dr. Joan Roland, New York, Kerala Lalit Kala, Academi.
Ms. Prafulla Dhanukar, Mumbai And Some Private Art Gallery & Public Collection in India and Abroad Including Bangkok, Holland, Australia and England.
AT PRESENT
Associate with Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur as a Senior Lecturer.
About My Work
To be an artist is an intensely personal business. His art is a silent interaction between the artist and his milieu – his society, his world and the atmosphere he grew up in, that nurtures the unfold creativity in him. It is this interaction that gives the artist his idiom, the language of colour.
Fascinated with a deep-rooted interest of being an artist, Deepak Khandelwal started his career as an active painter in the year 1992. He is a Graduate (B.F.A.) in Fine Arts with specialization in Painting from Rajasthan School of Art, Jaipur and a Post Graduate (M.F.A.) from the renowned Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda (Gujarat).
The artist has to his credit an 18 years inexorable journey of fostering contemporary art, showcasing his work in India and overseas.
For him, painting is a creative medium and a sensitive discipline which needs a combination of both subject and its creative aspects. He finds the entire process of transformation of visual experience into a visible medium quite fascinating as well as challenging.
In his show under review, Deepak’s work reflects his influence from the ultra modern society. His keen and pedantic observation in pomp and privileged urban class society, its life style is the core theme of his work. The artist says that his interaction with people in varied social gatherings have always left an indelible impression on him. At times these individuals get stuck in his mind and their expressions and gestures propel him towards capturing moods of urban life style.
His recent works exhibited in this show is also motivated by the process and benefits of meditation. When people meditate, they find themselves in a completely new world which is beyond all tensions and worries of mundane life. Post meditation, they feel relaxed and energized to take up new challenges of life.
The artist further adds that he cherishes happiness and simplicity which is depicted in his art work, through varied colours and forms of “Apples”. Though the artist has used various motifs like – flowers, fishes, plants, leaves etc. in his paintings but a distinctive feature is the depiction of ‘apples’ in almost all of his paintings. He is highly influenced by this beautiful and nourishing fruit gifted by nature. He feels that apples are refreshing and very energetic and hence it helps in producing a kind of freshness in his paintings. Apples portray a trade mark for his semi-figurative paintings. It seems that the artist is in love with the silhouette of apples that symbolizes deep love, thebeauty of nature and an amazing freshness of life. One can see numerous apples in his entire series of large 3 (6X5 Feet), 6 (5ft x 5ft) and small 12 (1ftX1ft) paintings totaling in all 21 paintings.
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