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                | Artist Profile |  
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                      | RANBIR KALEKA   Born : 1953 Patiala, Punjab, India  
                           1975 Diploma in Painting, College of Art, Punjab 
                            University, Chandigarh 1987 M.A. Painting , Royal College of Art, London 
                          1980-85 Taught at the Delhi College of Art, New 
                            Delhi 1976-77 Taught at the Fine Arts Department, College 
                            for Women, Punjab University, Patiala  Solo 
                          Exhibitions  
                          2005 Crossings, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York 1996 Art Toda, New Delhi  |   
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                      |  Selected Group Exhibitions 
                          Awards and Honors2005 iCon: India Contemporary, Venice Biennale 2005 Edge of Desire: recent art in India, Asia Society 
                            Museum, New York; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, (Museum 
                            of Contemporary Art), MARCO, Monterrey Mexico; Asian 
                            Art Musseum of San Francisco; Royal Ontario Museum, 
                            Toronto 2005 Golden Jubilee, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi 
                          2005 Revisualising India, Osians, New Delhi 2004 Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Art Gallery 
                            of Western Australia 2004 How can You Resist?, LA FREEWAVES 9th Biennial 
                            Festival of Film, Video and New Media, MOCA Geffen 
                            Contemporary, Los Angles 2004 Zoom! Art in Contemporary India, Culturgest-Lisbon, 
                            Portugal 2004 Visual Performance , curated by Wu Hung and 
                            Julie Walsh, Walsh Gallery, Chicago 2004 After Dark, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2003 10th Biennial of Moving Images, Center of Contemporary 
                            Images, Saint- Gervais, Geneve, Switzerland 2003 diVERGE, NGMA, India 2003 Liminal Zones, Apeejay Media Gallery, Delhi 
                          2003 Siting Contemporary Culture in India , House 
                            of World Culture, Berlin 2003 Interactive A03 Biennale for New Media Art, 
                            Museum of Contemporary Art Merida, Yucatan, Mexico 
                          2003 An Apparent Calm, curated by Peter Nagy, Grantpirrie, 
                            Sidney 2003 Video Roadshow, Mumbai 2003 Root En Route, British Council, New Delhi and 
                            Chennai;Sakshi Gallery Bangalore and Mumbai 2002 KHOJ 2002, International Workshop in Mysore, 
                            India 2002 Kapital and Karma: Recent Positions in Indian 
                            Art, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria 2002 Private Mythologies: Sound and Video Works 
                            of the Personal and the Political, Apeejay Media Gallery, 
                            New Delhi 2002 Contemporary Photography, Nature Morte, New 
                            Delhi 2001 Rare and Unusual Paintings, Art Today, New 
                            Delhi 2000 Silent TV video Lounge, in collaboration with 
                            Michel Mallard, Oliver Reneau & Denis Chevalier 
                            Alliance Francaise, New Delhi 2000 Imagesfor a Hundred Lamp Posts, Public Art 
                            Projects Ealing, London 2000 Embarkations- The Millennium Show, Sakshi Gallery, 
                            Mumbai 2000 Boxwallahs, The DeEgo-Cube, Indo- Austrian 
                            Art Projectsi n Public Space 1999 Art and Technology, Max Mueller, Mumbai 1999 Edge of the Century, British Council, New Delhi 
                          1998 Public Mural for Thames Trains at Southall 
                            Station, London, commissioned by Ealing and the European 
                            Union Fund 1997 Open Drawing Competition Exhibition, Cheltenham 
                            & North England 1995 Indian Winter, Mixed Show, Smith Jariwala Gallery, 
                            London 1995 First Sight, West London Artists, Pitshanger 
                            Manor Gallery, London 1994 Summer Exhibitions, invited Artist Royal Academy, 
                            London 1994 Drawing 94, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India 
                          1994 Connaught Brown Gallery, the Affordable Art 
                            Company Exhibition, London 1988 Seventeen Indian Painters, Gallery Chemould, 
                            Bombay, India 1987 Contemporary Indian Art, Robert Hull Fleming 
                            Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington 1987 Coup De Coeur, Festival of India, Geneva 1986 Contemporary Indian Art, Bucknell University, 
                            Lewisburg, Pennsylvania  
                          The artist lives and works in2004-05 Residency at Villa Montalvo, California 
                          2000-1999 Artistic consultant, Basic Needs Pavilion, 
                            Expo2000, Hanover, Germany 1985-87 Charles Wallace Scholarship for M.A. Painting, 
                            Royal College of Art, London 1986 Sanskrit Award, New Delhi 1979 National Award, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi 
                           
 
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