2013 `Antardhwani`, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

2013 `Antardhwani`, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

S H Raza – Concise Bio.
Major Solo Exhibitions
 2013 'Antardhwani', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
 2012-13 'Vistaar', Art Musings and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
 2012 The Arts Trust, Mumbai
 2012 'Bindu Vistaar', Grosvenor Gallery, London
 2011 'Punaragaman', Vadehra Art Gallery and Lalit Kala Akademi, New
Delhi
 2010 Raza Ceramiques, Galerie Flora J, Paris
 2010 Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
 2010 RL Fine Arts, New York
 2010 Akar Prakar, Kolkata
 2010 'Recent Works', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
 2007 „Raza – A Retrospective‟, Saffronart, New York in association with
Berkeley Square Gallery
 2007 „Celebrating 85 Years of Living Legend S H Raza‟, a Traveling
Exhibition at Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Mumbai, New Delhi organized
by Aryan Art Gallery, New Delhi
 2006 'Selected Works of S H Raza', Peter Louis Gallery, Paris
 2006 „Rang Ras – S. H. Raza‟, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
 2006 „Metamorphosis‟, Aryan Art Gallery, Mumbai, Delhi and Hong Kong
 2005 Saffronart and Berkeley Square Gallery, London and New York
 2005 Aryan Art Gallery, Delhi
 2005 Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
 2004 Aryan Art Gallery, Delhi
 2002 Jehangir Art Gallery, Sharan Apparao Gallery, Gallery Chemould,
Mumbai
 1999 Gallery Art 54, New York
 1997 Le Parcons du regard, Oletta, Corsices, France
 1997 Galleri Grewal Mohanjeet, Paris
 1997 Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal; Jehangir
Art Gallery, Mumbai; National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi.
 1994 L‟Artheque d‟Enterprise, Group Michel Ferrier, Echirolle, Grenoble
 1992 Jehangir Nicholsan Museum, National Centre for Performing Arts,
Mumbai
 1992 Parcours des Arts, La Louvesc, France
 1991 Galerie Eterso, Cannes
 1991 Retrospective 1952-91, Palais Carnles, Musee de Menton, France
 1990 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
 1988 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai ; Galleri Koloritten, Stavanger, Norway
 1987 La Tete de l ‟Art, Grenoble
 1985 Galerie Pierre Parat, Paris
 1984 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
 1982 Galerie Leob, Bern, Switzerland
 1982 Galerie J.Y Noblet, Grenoble
 1980 Galleriet, Oslo
 1979 Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway
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1978 Jehangir Nicholson Museum, National Centre for Performing Arts,
Mumbai
1978 „Utsav‟, Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad, Bhopal
1977 La Tete de l ‟Art, Grenoble
1976 Jehangir Art Gallery, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai ; Stavanger
Kunstforening Galerie, Norway
1975 Galleria Matuzia, San Remo, Italy
1974 La Palette, Trouville
1972 Abbaye du Pommier, Anncy, Le Grenier, Roquebrune-Village
1969 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
1968 Tecta Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany; Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1963-68 Dom Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1962 Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, University of California,
California, USA
1962 Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, California
1962 Galerie Dresdnere, Montreal
1962-68 Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto
1959 Jehangir Art gallery, Mumbai
1959-1960 Galerie Dresdnere, Montreal
1959 All India Fine Aarts and Crafts Society, New Delhi
1958-61-62- 64 -67 -69 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
1950 Charles Petras‟s Institute of Foreign Languages, Mumbai
Major Group Exhibitions
 2013 'Miniature Rewind 1', presented by Grosvenor Gallery, London for
Art Dubai 2013, Dubai
 2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit
Kala Akademi, New Delhi
 2013 'Nothing is Absolute: A Journey through Abstraction', The Jehangir
Nicholson Gallery at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
(CSMVS), Mumbai
 2013 'The Discerning Eye: Modern Masters', Vadehra Art Gallery, New
Delhi
 2012 'Iconic Processions', Aicon Gallery, New York
 2012 'Extending the Line', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
 2012 'Gallery Collection', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
 2012 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art',
prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai
 2012 'Through the Ages: South Asian Sculpture and Painting from
Antiquity to Modernism', Aicon Gallery, New York
 2012 'Sightings', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
 2011 'Adbhutam: Rasa in Indian Art', Centre of International Modern
Art(CIMA), Kolkata
 2011 'The Path of the Lotus: Indian Art', Grosvenor Gallery, London
 2011 'Modern Masters', Aicon Gallery, New York
 2011 'Form and Formlessness', Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon
 2011 'POP: Progressives on Paper', Aicon Gallery, New York
 2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
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2011 'Masterclass', Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 'Continuum', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Besides Paris', Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2010 'Paper Trails', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'The Progressives & Associates', Grosvenor Gallery, London
2010 'From Miniature to Modern: Traditions in Transition', Rob Dean Art,
London in association with Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Above and Beyond', Aicon Gallery, London
2010 'Masters of Maharashtra', collection from Lalit Kala Akademi, New
Delhi at Piramal Gallery, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA),
Mumbai
2009 'Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art', Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
2009 'Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections
of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin', Emily Lowe
Gallery, Hempstead
2009 'In Search of the Vernacular', Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 'Think Small', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Progressive to Altermodern: 62 Years of Indian Modern Art',
Grosvenor Gallery, London
2009,10 'Master Class', The Arts Trust, Mumbai
2008 'Modern and Contemporary Indian Art', Vadehra Art Gallery, New
Delhi
2008 „Freedom 2008 : Sixty Years After Indian Independence‟, Centre for
International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2008 'Magnificient Seven', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2007-08 „India Art Now: Between Continuity and Transformation‟,
Province of Milan, Milan, Italy
2005 Ashta Nayak: Eight Pioneers of Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York
2004 Aryan Art Gallery, Delhi
2004 Art Musings, Mumbai
2003 Des duos et des couples, Aixen Provence, France (with Pablo Picasso
and Francoise Gillot)
2002 Jane Woorhese Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey ; Jehangir Art
Gallery, Mumbai
2001,2002 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Metropolitan Pavilion, New
York
2001 „Indian Contemporary Fine Art‟, Saffronart and Apparao Galleries,
Los Angeles
2001 „Symphony in White‟, Gallery 7, Mumbai
2001 „Cultural Ties‟, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London
2000 Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art,
Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
2000 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1999 Timeless Vision – Contemporary Art of India, Peabody Essex
Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
1999 Festival of Contemporary Art, „Energy‟, Gallery 7, Mumbai
1999 „The Turning Point‟, Jehangir Art gallery, Mumbai
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1999 Salar de Mai, Paris
1999 Apparao Galleries, Hong Kong
1999 Apparao Galleries and Gallery Art 54, New York
1999 Timeless Vision – Contemporary Art of India, Peabody Essex
Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
1998 „Spirit and Soul‟, Indian Painting Today, Hong Kong
1998 Gegenwatskunst aw Indian, Harsh Goenka, Bayer A.G. Leverkusen,
Germany
1998 „The Search Within‟, Kloster Pernegg, Austria
1998 National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1998 „L‟indracable frontiers‟, Toulouse, France
1998 International Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal
1997 „Indian Contemporary Art‟, Fine Art Resource, Berlin
1997 „An Ode to Independence‟, Apparao Galleries, London
1997 „Tryst with Destiny‟, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA),
National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
1997 Singapore Art Museum
1997 „Within The Frame‟, Apparao Galleries, Hong Kong
1997 The Moderns, The Progressive Artists Group, National Gallery of
Modern Art, Mumbai
1996 Progressive Artists Group, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1996 'Chamatkar', The Indian Metaphor, Whitleys Art Gallery, London
1996 „Les Oceans‟, Metropolitaine, Lisbon, Portugal
1996 „Within The Frame‟, The Gallery, Chennai,Visual Art Centre Hong
Kong
1996 Progressive Artists Group, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1996 'Chamatkar', The Indian Metaphor, Whitleys Art Gallery, London
1995 „Sept Peintres Indiens Contemporains‟, Le Monde de l‟Art, Paris
1995 Festival d‟ Avignon, France
1995 „Tree of my Life‟, Village Gallery, Delhi
1994 Salon de Mai, Espace Branley, Paris
1993 „Wounds‟, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1993 „Indian encounter‟, The Gallery, Nehru Centre, London
1993 „Souvenir d‟en France‟, Lalit Kala Galleries, Delhi
1991 „State of Art‟, Paintings with Computer, Jehangir Art Gallery,
Mumbai
1991 Ceramics, „Faenza Anni 90‟, Italy
1990 L‟Artotheque d‟Entreprise, Group Michel Ferrier, Echirolle Grenoble
1990 „Realite Seconde‟, Galerie Ariane, Paris
1989 Salon de Mai, Grand Palais, Paris
1989 Artistes Indiens a Paris, Galerie Ariane, Paris
1988 Maison de la Culture, Space Andre Malraux, Reims, France
1988 „Art for CRY‟, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi
1988 The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Olympiad, Seoul, Korea
1987 Galerie La tete de l‟Art, Grenoble
1987 „Coups de Coeur‟, Halles de L‟ille, Geneva, Switzerland
1986 „Indian Art Today‟, The Philips Collection, Washington
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1986 “Contemporary Indian Art”, Chester Herwitz Family Collection,
Festival of India, Grey Gallery, New York
1985 Artistes Indiens en France, Foundation Nationale des Arts
Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris
1984 J. Y. Noblet, Paris
1983 Salon de Mai, Paris
1983 Bibliotheque Nationale, Luxemborg
1982 „Contemporary Indian Art‟, Royal Academy, London
1982 “India, Myth & Reality”, Aspects of Modern Indian Art, Museum of
Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1981 Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
1980-86 Kunstnere, Fra Syd-Franksike, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway
1978 „Pictorial Space‟, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
1978 Salon de Dessin, Paris
1978 Vieux Presbitaire, Gorbio
1978 L‟ Estampe Aujourd‟hui‟, Bibliotheque Nationale: Foire Internationale
d‟Art Contemporian, Grand Palais, Paris
1975 Sahel Palais de l‟Europe, Menton
1974 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1974 Premier Salon International d‟Art Contemporain, Paris
1974 Salon Grands et Jeunes d‟Aujoued‟hui
1973 Estampes Contemporaines, Musee de Menton
1973 Galleria Matuzia, San Remo
1973 Pacific Cultural Museum, Pasadena, California
1973 Indian Contemporary Painters, Renwich Gallery, Washington
1973 Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
1972 Wolfgang-Gurlitt Museum, Linz, Austria
1971 Recherche et Expression, Montferneil
1971 Art et Fer Blanc, Paris
1967 Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1965 Promesses tenues, Musee Galliera, Paris
1965 Realities Nouvelles, Paris
1965 Art Now in India, Newcastle, UK
1963 Grands et Jeunes d‟ Aujourd‟ hui, Paris, Salons Comparaisons, Paris
1962 Commonwealth Exhibition, Commonwealth Institute London
1962 Ecole de Paris 62, Galerie Charpentier, Paris
1962 Werke der Ecole de Paris, Dom Galerie, Cologne
1962 Gallery 63, New York
1962 Commonwealth Exhibition, Commonwealth Institute, London
1961 Ecole de Paris 61, Galerie Charpentier, Paris
1961 Galerie Semiha Huber, Zurich
1960 Modern Indian Art, Santiago, Trinidad and Mexico
1960 Galerie Charpentier, Paris
1958 John Moores‟ Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1958 „Trends in Contemporary Painting from India‟, Graham Gallery, New
York
1957 Exhibition organized by the Journal Asahi, Tokyo
1957 „Transferences‟, Zwemmer Gallery, London
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Les Arts en France et dans le Monde, Musee d‟ Art Moderne, Paris
Galerie Raymond Creuze, Paris
Galerie Saint-Placide
Salon de Mai, Paris
Progressive Artists Group, Mumbai
Joint Exhibitions
 2009 „Spirit of India‟, with M F Husain at Kings Road Galleries, London
 2009 'Shanti: A Scream for Peace', with Manish Pushkale at Bugno Art
Gallery, Venice
 2004 „S. H. Raza and Manish Pushkale – Recent Works‟, Guild Art Gallery,
Mumbai
Participations
 2012-13 'Radical Terrain: Modernist Art from India', Rubin Museum of Art,
New York
 2012 'Modernist Art from India: Approaching Abstraction', Rubin Museum
of Art, New York
 2012 'Synergy 2012', 12th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
 2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
(KNMA), New Delhi
 2011 'Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980),
Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
 2011 India Art Festival, Nehru Centre, Mumbai presented by Akar Prakar,
Kolkata
 2011 „Manifestations VI', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
 2011 'Miniscule Marvel', presented by Contemplate at Gallery BMB,
Mumbai
 2011 „Manifestations V', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
 2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from
India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
 2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
 2011 'Resonance', Art Musings, Mumbai
 2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
 2010 'Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
 2010 'Roots', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at
The Park, Chennai
 2009 'Armory Show', New York presented by Vadehra Art Gallery, New
Delhi
 2008-09 ''Modern India', organized by Institut Valencià d'Art Modern
(IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture at
Valencia, Spain
 2008 'Harvest 2008', organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery,
New Delhi
 2007-08 'From Everyday To The Imagined: Modern Indian Art', Singapore
Art Museum, Singapore and at Museum of Art, Seoul National University,
Seoul
 1998 „Harmony Show;, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
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„Harmony Show;, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
International Biennale de Dakar, Senegal
Biennial of Havana, Cuba
Biennale Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
Biennale de Menton, France
Biennale de Menton, Realites Nouvelles
Biennale de Menton, France
First Triennale, New Delhi
Salon Comparaisons, Paris
Biennale de Menton, France
Biennale de Menton, France
Biennale du Maroc, Rabat
Salon Comparaisons, Paris
Biennale de Bruges
Biennale de Sao Paulo
Biennale 57, Pavilion de Marsan, Paris
Biennale de Venice