Jatin Das

Jatin Das was born December 2, 1941 in Mayurbhanj, Orissa, and studied at the Sir J.J School of Art in Bombay under Professor SB Palsikar. He primarily uses oil, watercolor, ink and conte. In a career spanning over five decades, his works have been part of several public and private collections in India and abroad. Most notably, he has done several murals and sculpture installations, including a large mural at the Parliament House entitled “Mohenjo Daro to Mahatma Gandhi”, commissioned by the Parliament of India on the occasion of 50 years of India's Independence.

Over the last 45 years, Jatin Das has built a large personal collection of traditional arts, including a rare collection of over 6,500 hand fans that has been exhibited in India and abroad. The J.D. Centre of Arts has been established to house his collection of traditional and contemporary art in Orissa. In addition to charitable donations locally and internationally, the artist actively led the relief and rehabilitation work of a village in Orissa after the super cyclone in 1999.

Jatin Das, a professional contemporary artist, has held over 55 one-man exhibitions both in India and abroad, and has participated in numerous national and international shows and artist camps. He has lectured extensively at innumerable art and architectural colleges and museums on contemporary and traditional art forms, and acts as an advisor to many government and private art and cultural bodies.

1957-62 Sir J. J School of Art, Mumbai

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden
2011 Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh
2011 Red Art Gallery, Collaboration Gallery Art & Soul, Baroda and Mumbai
2011 Ahmedabad ni Gufa, Collaboration Gallery Art & Soul, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
2011 Red Earth Gallery, Collaboration Gallery Art & Soul, Vadodara, Gujarat
2011 Jawahar Kala Kendra, Collaboration Gallery Art & Soul, Jaipur, Rajasthan
2010 Museum Gallery, presented by Gallery Art & Soul, Mumbai
2009 The Artists Alley Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2009 Chelsea Arts Club, London, UK
2009 Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Delhi
2007 Jehangir Art Gallery, Presented by Art & Soul Gallery, Mumbai
2007 AIFACS Gallery, Paintings done in Greece, Presented by ICCR, New Delhi
2007 CIMA Gallery, Kolkata: ‘Charged Figures’
2006 Rabindra Bhawan Gallery Presented by Indus Gallery, Delhi: ‘Journeys across Foreign Lands
2006 1X1 Art Space, Dubai
2005 Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
2002 Retrospective: 40 years of Drawings, AIFACS, Delhi
2002 National Gallery of Modern Art and Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 Works on paper Art Today (C.P.), New Delhi
1999 Body Spirited, India Habitat Centre, Delhi
1996 Crimson, The Art Resource, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore
1995, 87 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1994 A Retrospective: Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
1993 Heads, Le Corbusier Art Gallery, Alliance Francaise, Chandigarh
1993 Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay
1992 “Woman of Clay” AIFACS galleries, New Delhi
1992 Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri Presentation, AIFACS, New Delhi
1986 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta
1968-90 Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, LKA Retrospective Show, New Delhi
1985 ‘Times of India’ Man and Woman” Presentation. Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi
1983 Sarla Art Centre, Madras
1982, 73, 68, 66, 65 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay
1979 Urja Art Gallery, Baroda
1979 Hutheesing Visual Art Centre, Ahmedabad
1978 Arts 38 Gallery, London
1978, 76, 73, 70, 68 Kumar Art Gallery, Hansalaya, New Delhi
1978 Werl. Pastorat a.d Johanniskirche, “Zeitgenossische Ind., Kunst,” West Germany
1977 Freinsheim an der Weinstrasse, Surya Gallery, West Germany
1977 Studio, Private Show, Drawings, New Delhi
1975 The Garden Gallery, Loughborough, UK
1975 Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London
1975 City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
1975 Hotel Kempinski, West Berlin, West Germany
1975 Schloss Bellevue, Kassel, West Germany
1975 Bharat Verein e.V., Frankfurt, West Germany
1975 Gallery de Sphinx, Amsterdam
1974 Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi
1974 Studio, Private Show, New Delhi
1974 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1967 Rourkela, Max Mueller Bhavan, Orissa
1966 Panjim, Institute Menezes Braganza, Goa
1965 Gallery Chemould, Calcutta
1962 Private Show, Alyque & Pearl Padamsee, Bombay
1964 Bhubaneshwar, Rabindra Mandap, Orissa
1964 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1962 Indo-American Society Gallery, Bombay
1962 Cuttack, Nari Seva Sangha Hall, Orissa
1962 Sturenkatu, Helsinki, Finland
1962 Sir J.J. School of Arts, Bombay

PARTICIPATIONS
2011 National Graphic Show, Mumbai
2011 Popular Publication, Tao Gallery, Mumbai
2011 Kumar Gallery, Celebration, New Delhi
2001 Indian Habitat Centre, Gujarat Earthquake, Organized by VHAI, New Delhi
1992 IV Bharat Bhavan Biennale of Contemporary Indian Art (award), Bhopal
1985 2nd Biennale, Cuba, Havana
1985 3rd Asian Biennale, Bangladesh
1984 Tokyo Biennale, the 15th International Art Show, Japan
1982 VII British International Print Biennale, Bradford, UK
1971, 76 & 78 2nd, 3rd and 4th Triennial India, Delhi
1978 Venice Biennale, Italy
1976 All India Fine Arts Crafts Society (AIFACS), National Show of Portraits (award), Delhi
1972 All India Graphics Show, Group 8, Delhi
1971 Septieme Biennale de Paris, France
1965 The Bombay Art Society (Governor’s Award), Bombay
1962 Maharashtra State Art Exhibition, Archer Jehangir Art Academy, Bombay

2010 Conferred the D. Litt. (Honoris Causa), Ravenshaw University, Orissa
2007 Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity Italian Government, Italian President Award, New Delhi
2007 Bharat Nirman Award
2007 Seminar Management Institution, Bhubaneswar
2007 Conferred the D.Litt. (Honoris Causa), Utkal University of Culture, Bhubaneswar
2006 Utkala Awards by Bengal Governor, Kolkata