Krishen Khanna

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2020 ‘Krishen at 95’, Grosvenor Gallery and Artoholics Gallery, ITC Maurya Sheraton, New Delhi
• 2016 'Krishen Khanna: Drawings & Paintings', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2015 'When the band begins to play...', Grosvenor Gallery, London
• 2014 Krishen Khanna: A Celebration of Lines, Sakshi Gallery
• 2013 'A Celebration of Lines', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
• 2010 'Krishen Khanna: A Retrospective', presented by Saffronart, Mumbai at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
• 2008 'The Savage Heart', Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2005 Saffronart and Berkeley Square Gallery, London
• 2004 'An Airing' Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2001 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2001 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, New York
• 1995 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
• 1994 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 1991 Gallery Espace, New Delhi
• 1989 Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi.
• 1986 Exhibition of drawings and paintings at Sarla Art Centre, Chennai
• 1983 Exhibition of drawings, Garhi Studio, New Delhi
• 1980 Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
• 1979 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 1975 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 1974 Black Partridge, New Delhi
• 1973 Pundole Gallery, Mumbai
• 1969 Photographs, Kunika-Chemould, New Delhi
• 1969 Experimental Photographs, Pundole Gallery, Mumbai
• 1966 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 1965 Egan Gallery, New York
• 1964 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 1964 Watkins Art Gallery, American University, Washington D.C.
• 1962 Kunika Art Centre
• 1962 Leicester Galleries, London
• 1961 Ashoka Gallery, Kolkata
• 1961 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1960 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 1960 Leicester Galleries, London
• 1959 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
• 1958 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
• 1957 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
• 1955 USIS, Chennai

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2020  India Art Fair, Grosvenor Gallery, New Delhi
• 2020 The Sixties Show, DAG Modern, Mumbai
• 2020 The Fifties Show, DAG Modern, New Delhi
• 2019 Bronzed: From Paint To Patina, Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
• 2019 The Sixties Show, DAG Modern, New Delhi
• 2019 Drawing: A New Chapter, Art Pilgrim, Gurgaon
• 2019 South Asian Modern Art, Grosvenor Gallery, London
• 2019 SH Raza, Krishen Khanna: Yugma II, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2019 Red, Blue & Yellow. The 19th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2019 India’s Rockefeller Artists, DAG Modern, Mumbai
• 2018-2019 The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India, Asia Society and Museum, New York
• 2018 New Configurations: Vignettes from the collection in recent years, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida
• 2018 India's Rockefeller Artists, DAG Modern, New York
• 2017 Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art, Edition II, DAG Modern, New Delhi
• 2016 Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art, DAG Modern, New Delhi
• 2015 Group Show: Off The Record - Mediations on the Photographic Image, Vadehra Art Gallery
• 2015 After Midnight: Indian Modernism To Contemporary India 1947/1997, Queens Museum Of Art
•  2015 The Guild Collection Ii: Outremer, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
•    2015 India Modern - Narratives From 20th Century Indian Art, DAG Modern, New Delhi
•    2014 The Ecstasy of Art 1, Tao Art Gallery
• 2014 Indian Divine: Gods & Goddesses In 19Th and 20Th Century, DAG Modern, New Delhi
• 2014 Infinite: Tao’s 14th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery

2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

• 2013 'Edge of Reason- and beyond, into pure creativity', presented by Indian Art Circle at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
• 2013 'The Discerning Eye: Modern Masters', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2012 'Talking Heads', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
• 2011 'The Art of Drawing', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2011 'Masterclass', Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2010-11 'A Collection', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
• 2010 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
• 2010 '10 x 10', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
• 2010 'Black is Beautiful', India Fine Art, Mumbai
• 2010 'Essential, Eclectic,...Ephemeral', The Harrington Mansions, Kolkata
• 2009 'Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• 2009 'Master Class', The Arts Trust, Mumbai
• 2009 'Sacred and Secular', India Fine Art, Mumbai
• 2009 'Kalpana: Figurative Art in India', presented by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London; The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)
• 2008 'Faces', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2008 'Baisakh 08', Polka Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2004 ‘Concept and Form’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2003 Exhibition of drawings, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2003 Transition at UBS in London
• 2003 'Of Memories, Dreams, Reverses', at Anant, New Delhi
• 2001 'Living Legends of Indian Contemporary Art', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2001 'In Conversations', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
• 2001 Indian Art Circle, Habitat Centre, New Delhi
• 2001 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, New York
• 1999 'Mahabharat', Gallery 7, Mumbai
• 1998 'The Probing Eye', an exhibition of Photographs, Surendra Paul Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 1998 'Drawings', Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1997 'Tryst with Destiny', Art from Modern India 1947-1997, Singapore Art Museum, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
• 1997 'Six Modern Masters', Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
• 1996 Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings, Sothebys Auction, London
• 1996 'A Tree in my Life', Village Gallery, New Delhi
• 1996 'The Moderns', Inaugural Exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
• 1996 'The Mahabharata, The Card Player and The Scribe’, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
• 1995 'Indian Contemporary Paintings', Christie's Auction, London
• 1995 'Bombay', presented by RPG Enterprises
• 1995 'River of Art', Inaugural Exhibition, Art Today
• 1994 'Indian Drawing Today', All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), organized by Gallery Espace, New Delhi
• 1994 'The Solids', second Indian Drawing Biennale, exhibited as a special invitee
• 1993 'Reflections and Images', Vadhera and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1992 'Masters of Indian Art', Hotel Intercontinental, Mumbai
• 1991 'Remembering Kali Pundole', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1991 Birla Academy of Art, Anniversary Exhibition , Kolkata
• 1991 'Addressing Gandhi', traveling exhibition by Sahmat
• 1989 'Timeless Art', Exhibition and Auction
• 1989 Sothebys in Mumbai
• 1989 'Artist's Alert', exhibition and auction by Sahmat, New Delhi
• 1985 Ram Kumar and Krishen Khanna , Gallery 7, Mumbai
• 1984 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 7, Mumbai
• 1982 'Modern Indian Painters' Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D. C.
• 1982 'Contemporary Indian Art', Burlington House, London
• 1982 'Myth and Reality', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
• 1981 Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar Museum, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• 1981 'Indian Painting Today', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1979 'Modern Asian Art', Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
• 1976 'Pictorial Space', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
• 1976 'Indian Painting 1977', Chandigarh, organized by Black Partridge Gallery
• 1972 'Art Now', Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
• 1972 'One World through Art', Ben and Abbey Grey Foundation, St. Paul, MN, USA
• 1971 'Contemporary Indian Art', Renwick Gallery
• 1971 Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
• 1970 'Art Now', Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
• 1969 'Contemporary Art, Dialogue between East and West', Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
• 1969 'Indian Painters 69', Max Mueller Bhavan & Birla Academy, Kolkata
• 1968 New Art Centre, London
• 1966 Lincoln Centre, New York
• 1965 'Ten Contemporary Artists from India' University of South Florida, Tampa; Jackson Art Museum, Jacksonville; Delgado Art Museum, New Orleans; Hunter Gallery, Chattanooga; Colorado Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Long Beach; Art Institute, San Francisco; East Wing Center, Honolulu
• 1965 'Ten Contemporary Painters from India' MIT, Cambridge; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton.
• 1964 'Six Artists in Black and White', Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
• 1963 'Contemporary Painters from India', Gallery 63, New York
• 1963 'Eight Contemporary Artists from India', Lever House, New York
• 1959 'Artists of Fame and of Promise', Leicester Galleries, London
• 1959 'Trends in Contemporary Painting from India', Graham Gallery, New York
• 1959 'Modern Indian Art', Cairo
• 1959 'Contemporary Art from India', Essen, Dortmund, Zurich
• 1959 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 59, Mumbai
• 1956 'Eight Painters', Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society Building, New Delhi
• 1954 With M F Husain at All India Fine Arts and Crafts society (AIFACS), New Delhi
• 1952-53 Progressive Artists at Madras College of Art, Chennai
• 1949 Progressive Artist Group, Chetna Restaurant, Mumbai
• 1949 Progressive Artist Group, Artists Aid Centre

PARTICIPATIONS

• 2015 'Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection', Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
• 2014 'Ode to Monumental: Celebration, Visuality, Ideology', presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 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 ‘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 'Celebration 2011', Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi
• ·  2010 'Art Celebrates 2010: Sports and the City', represented by Art Alive Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games
• 2010 'Master’s Corner', organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; India International Art Fair, New Delhi
• 2010 'Contemporary Printmaking In India', presented by Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2010 Annual Exhibition, Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2008-09 'Paz Mandala', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
• 2008 'Harvest 2008', organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
• 1991 The Fifth Biennale, Havana Cuba
• 1988 First International Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan
• 1988 Festival of India, Japan
• 1987 Festival of India, USSR
• 1987 'Coups de Coeur', Geneva
• 1986 Baghdad International Festival of Art
• 1982 International Triennale, New Delhi
• 1976 25th Pugwash Conference, Chennai
• 1975 3rd Triennale of Contemporary World Art, New Delhi
• 1970 Expo '70, Indian Pavilion, Osaka, Japan
• 1968 International Triennale, New Delhi
• 1965 Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi , New Delhi
• 1962 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
• 1962 Venice Biennale, Indian Participation
• 1961 Tokyo Biennale
• 1960 Sao Paulo Biennale
• 1957 Tokyo Biennale
• 1946 Annual Exhibition, Punjab Art Society

HONOURS AND AWARDS

• 2011 Padma Bhushan, Government of India
• 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna from The President of India
• 1997 Kala Ratna, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society(AIFACS), New Delhi
• 1990 Padma Shri, Government of India
• 1989 Gold Medal, First International Biennale of Art, Lahore, Pakistan
• 1989 Sahitya Kala Parishad Award, New Delhi
• 1986 Presidents Award at Baghdad International Festival of Art
• 1965 Award, Lalit Kala Akademi Annual Exhibition, New Delhi
• 1965 Fellowship of the Council for Economic and Cultural Affairs, New York
• 1964 Artist–in-Residence, American University, Washington DC.
• 1962-63 Fellowship Rockefeller Council, New York
• 1962 Travel Fellowship by Council for Economic and Cultural Affairs, New York
• 1955 Commendation, Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai
• 1955 Saurashtra Government Award for Oil Painting