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Artist's Profile
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| Simrin Mehra Agarwal |
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Simrin Mehra Agarwal pursued her professional art training from Delhi College of Art in Painting in the form of BFA (2002) and MFA (2004). From then on she has been exhibiting her works in various art exhibitions in India and abroad, the most recent ones being “Multiplicity and Self” Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre; “Fourth Indian Painting Exhibition at the World Trade Centre”, Sudirman Jakarta, Indonesia, organized by Indian Artists Network, Jawaharlal Nehru Indian Cultural Center and Indian Embassy; “49th National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi”, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal; “48th National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi”, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai; “78th Annual All India Art Exhibition”, AIFACS, New Delhi; ‘Parivriti’, Art Gallery, NFCL Design Studio, Hyderabad; “Creuset- Melting Pot”, Art Room India, New Delhi; 2006; “Imaging Materiality : Gesture of the City”, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; Community Arts Project, KHOJ (International artists organization), New Delhi; 2005; ‘Emerging Directions’, Apparao Galleries, New Delhi and Chennai; Indo-Dutch video art exhibition ‘CC: Crossing Currents-Video Art and Cultural Identity’, at Lalit Kala Galleries; “Confluence: A Convergence of Interpolating Realities”, Open Palm Court, India Habitat Centre; 2004; “Continuity and Change”, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; 17th All India Art Contest and Exhibition, Graphics Section, South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur; Winter Show, Apparao Art Gallery at Triveni, New Delhi; “Navsar”, India Habitat Center; ‘Samhita’, AIFACS; 2003; “Hastakshar”, Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts, New Delhi; “Kaleidoscope”, Rabindra Bhawan, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, 2002; Nokia Arts Award related traveling exhibitions in 14 countries including China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Hongkong, South Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, Vietnam; 2001.
She has also been a part of various art camps and workshops the prominent ones being in Tate-Modern London, England, “Self as Subject”; Jim Corbett Park, Ranikhet and Almora; Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi; AIFACS, All India Junior Artists Camp; “Annual Art Camp and Exhibition”, The Arts Trust; Mumbai; 2006; Community Arts Project, KHOJ, New Delhi; Khirki Village, New Delhi; Shop Makeover Project, Khoj; Kasauli Club; 2005; Indo-Dutch collaborative Film and Video Art Workshop with Dutch artists Persyn Broersen and Margit Lukas, Visual Arts Gallery and the Royal Netherlands Embassy at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; “The International Art Workshop and Seminar” Hotel Crown Plaza Surya, New Delhi; 2004; “Hastakshar” at the Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts, New Delhi; Workshop on scroll and banner painting with senior Australian painter and printmaker, Helen Geir, College of Art; National Museum; Austrian Embassy; UNICEF; 2002; “Art of Waste” National Museum of Natural History; 2000.
She has many awards and scholarships to her name like the National Scholarship awarded by the Department of Culture (HRD Ministry), Government of India, 2004-2006; “BFA Gold Medal”, AIFACS; “Sailoz Award”, College of Art, New Delhi; 2002; “Principal’s First Award”, 2001-2002; “National Winner Nokia Arts Award, Asia Pacific”; 2000.
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