Kiran Murdia

Born in Udaipur, 1951    
EDUCATION : M.A. Drawing and Painting, 1972-University of Udaipur

AWARDS:


   
1971 : Tulika Kalakar Parishad Udaipur- Gold Medal
1974 : Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi Jaipur- State Award
1976 : Tulika Kalakar Parishad Udaipur- Silver Medal
1980 : State Award Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi Jaipur Rajasthan
1986 : State Award Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi Jaipur
1989 : National Award National Lalit Kala Akademi,New Delhi

SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP:


   
1985-86 : Awarded Research Fellowship for Graphic and worked in Lalit Kala Akademi Garhi Studio, New Delhi
1996-97-98 : Awarded a Fellowship on Expansion of Mewar Landscape in Contemporary Modern Painting by HRD Ministry, Govt. of India
2000 : Honoured by Mahaveer Youva Manch, Udaipur

DISTINCT EXHIBITION AND GROUP EXHIBITION


   
1971 : Akademi of Fine Arts, Calcutta
1975 : III Trinnale India an International Art Exhibition by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1975 : Youth Exhibition National Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1976, 80, 81,82, 83, 85, 86 : Bombay Art Society Annual Exhibition
1978, 80, 81,82, 83, 84, 85,86, 87, 88, 89,90, 91, 92 : National Exhibition of Art Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1979, 1980 : Fine Arts Akademi, Amritsar
1980 : Mahakosal Kala Parishad, Raipur
1985-86 : Youth Exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1989 : Nature and Environment Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1989 : Bangladesh Binnale International Exhibition at Dhaka
1990 : All India Exhibition, Lucknow (U.P.)
1990, 2002 : Bharat Bhavan Print Binnale Interational Exhibition at Bhopal
1991 : Panchamrit Kala Kumbh An International Exhibition of Art, New Delhi
1992 : City Bank Show, Bombay
1998 : Award Winner’s Exhibition National Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1998 : Exhibition of contemporary artist from Delhi and Rajasthan organized by Prayas at A.I.F.A.C.S. Delhi and Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur.
1998, 99, 2000, 01 : Birla Akademi, Bombay
1999 : Rajasthan Ke Rang-Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, Jaipur
1999 : Rajasthan Ke Rang- Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur.
2003 : Kite Show Exhibition organized by Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 : Golden Jubilee Exhibition National Lalit Kala Akademi, New Dellhi
2004 : Bhopal- Twenty Years Disaster Organized by Sunit Chopra
2006 : Virasat Utsav, Jaipur organized by Juneja Art Gallary,Jaipur
2008-2009 : Seventh International Engraving Binnale at ILE-De- France
2013 : Confulence des Arts by Gallery Artchill, Jaipur
2013 : Art Show organized by Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2013,14 : Jaipur Art Summit, Jaipur

SOLO & Two Person Show :


   
1972 : Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi (Solo)
1974 : Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, Ravindra Manch, Jaipur (Solo)
1986, 2005 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (Two Person Show)
1996 : Rashtriya Kala Mela Bal Bhawan, New Delhi (Solo)
1998 : Juneja Art Gallery, Jaipur ( Solo)
2000 : Kala Mela- Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur (Solo)
2002 : Information Center, Udaipur (Solo)
2003 : City Palace, Udaipur (Solo)
2008 : Juneja Art Gallery,Jaipur (Solo)

GROUP SHOW ORGANISED BY AAJ SOCIETY, UDAIPUR:


   
1979-97 : Suchna Kendra, Udaipur
1980 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1980 : Lalit Kala Gallery Ravindra Bhawan, New Delhi
1981 : University Art Gallery, Chandigarh
1982 : Regional Centre Lalit Kala Akademi, Madras
1984 : Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishad, Banglore
1985-86 : Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad
1987 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1993-94 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay

RAJASTHAN ARTIST GROUP SHOWS:


   
Till 1998 : State Art Exhibition by Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi at Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, Goa, Madras, Bhuvneshwar, Chandigarh and Nepal
2007 : Kaleidoscope Art Gallery, Vadodara
2008-09 : Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 : Dhoomimal City Gallery, New Delhi

ABROAD GROUP SHOWS:


   
1986-87 : Stuatgart Art Gallery, Germany
1990 : Kyoto Shiman Gaiko Kyoto, Japan
1991 : Group Show at Kobe, Japan
1986 : Sprit of Indian Art Exhibition in Kuwait
2001 : Musca Art Gallery, Milan Italy (Group Show)
2001 : Towards Tradition to Modernity at Fluda Art Gallery, Germany
2012-15 : Rendezvous Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

ALL INDIA ART CAMPS:


   
1979 : Rajasthan Teachers Summer Training Camp Work as a resource Person Udaipur Rajasthan Second Board Education, Ajmer (Two Weeks)
1986-87 : All India Graphic Camp at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi & Masxmuller Bhawan, New Delhi (Four Weeks)
1990 : All India Painters Camp at Jammu Kakshmir Academy (Two weeks)
1991 : All India Artists Camp at “Hastaksher” Jaipur (Two weeks)
1993 : All India Paiters Workshop, Kullu Himachal Pradesh at Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra, Lucknow, U.P. (One Week)
1997 : All India Painters Camp at L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad (Two Weeks)
1997 : All India Multimedia Camp at Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy, Jaipur (One Week)
1998 : All India Painter Camp, Surajkund Haryana at H.Z.C.C. and Haryana Tourism (Ten days)
1998 : All Rajasthan Women Artists Camp Shilpgram, Udaipur Chiteri & W.Z.C.C., Udaipur (Ten Days)
1999 : All India Women Artist Camp at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur (Ten Days)
2006 : All India Artist camp “Wind, Water, Energy” organized by Urusavti Center of Art, New Delhi at Mumbai
2007 : National Art Hadoti Utsav , Kota , Rajasthan Art Camp by Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, Mt. Abu
2008 : National Graphic Camp at Barodra organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2009 : National Painters Workshop,Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
2010 : Women Artist camp organized by NGO Save the Child at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
2012 : Art Camp by Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademi, Pushkar, Art Camp by Kalaneri Art Gallery, Jaipur
2013 : All India Artist Camp, KhasBhag, Jodhpur
2014 : All India Artist Camp by ICAC, Nagothane
International Women Indo-China Artists’ Camp by ICCR, Jaipur

HONOURS AND OFFICES HELD:


   
Was elected on the General Council of Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy as a Nine Eminent Artists of Rajasthan-1978,1981,1983 and has worked as Program Committee Member of Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy, Jaipur.
Member of Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur from 1999-2002.
Founder member of AAJ Society (Raj).
Retired as Vice Principal Govt. Girls College, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
   

WORK IN COLLECTION:


   
Rajasthan Lalit Kala Modern Art Gallery (Jaipur), Jawahar Kala Kendra (Jaipur), Delhi College of Art (New Delhi), University Museum Chandigarh University, National Lalit Kala Academy (New Delhi),C.C.M.B. (Hyderabad), Rajasthan Patrika( Jaipur), R.S.M.M. (Udaipur), National Gallery of Modern Art Jaipur House (New Delhi), Jammu Kashmir Academy ,L.V. Prasad Eye Institute (Hyderabad), Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra (Lucknow, U.P.), W.Z.C.C. (Udaipur), Haryana tourism and in various private collections in India and abroad.    

ADDRESS:


   
Kiran Murdia
321 L-1 Road Bhupalpura
Udaipur-313001
Rajasthan, India
Mobile No. 91-9829261677
E-mail Id- kiran.murdia@gmail.com
Website – www.kiranmurdia.com