Kavita Jaiswal

I began my journey as an Artist in the 1980’s. From the recognisable form for several years, was born the essence of the real when abstraction became the matrix of my work. As an artist I have worked with several media and have expressed myself in the still, as well as the moving image, in drawings , paintings, photography, and video
I continue with my quest of over 35 years, each time engaging with the belief that there is something beyond us that makes everything happen.
I feel that the feeling of autonomy is just a feeling of an individual manifested out of the timeless one, where the timeless one has to somehow manifest itself into form to be able to speculate to remember and to confirm!
The picture continues to unfold on the surface of the paper or canvas and every image that emerges is testimony to the essence of the life force which appears in it. Each image unfolds the present moment for me where I am a part of it as well as apart from it.
My most recent works are all infused with the Universal energy appearing in the form of line tone texture and colour. Spaces are built and the visual becomes a point of recognition of that which can only be felt and not really be deciphered as a physical reality. The larger Universal picture continues to unfold each time a composition appears in a never ending flow !
Kavita Jaiswal
[Video - Kavita Jaiswal: Completion Calls for Disintegration]

1977-80: B.A (H) English Literature, Hindu College, Delhi University
1981-82: Post Graduate Diploma in Textile Design, South Delhi Polytechnic New Delhi
1980-84: Studied Fine Art, under Rameshwar Broota, at Triveni Kala Sangam New Delhi

SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
1995 Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
1998 Display Gallery, New Delhi
1999 Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi and Gallery Alternatives, Gurgaon
2002 The Queens Gallery, British Council New Delhi and Art Alive New Delhi
2005 The Art Heritage, New Delhi
2011 Art Konsult, New Delhi
2014 Art Heritage New Delhi
2016 Art Project Video Installation, India Art Fair , supported by Art Heritage
Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1986 Indian Women Artists, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
1988 International Women Artists, AIFACS, New Delhi
1986 Bharat Bhavan Biennial, Bhopal
1986 Exhibition of Indian Women Artists organized by NGMA in Bulgaria NAD
Poland
1981-98 Sahitya Kala Parishad Annual Art Exhibitions and AIFACS annual arts
Exhibitions

1984-86 College of arts and Lalit Kala Akademi Chandigarh
1986 Graphics Workshop, Sahitya Kala Parishad , New Delhi
1994 Group Show of 14 artists, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1994 Asia ExcellenceShow, Singapore
1995 “People for Animal “, Organised by Maneka Gandhi, New Delhi
1995 The Indian Beast, APPARAO galleries, Chennai
1997 Two person Show Shridharani Gallery New Delhi
1997 Gift for India, and International Exhibition , Organised By Sahmat New
Delhi
1997 Delhi for Delhi, organized by Maneka Gandhi
1997 40 th National Exhibition of Contemporary Art Lalit KALA Akademi
Bangalore
1998 The Harmony Show, Organised By Relaince Industries
1999 Edge of the Century, Curated By Amit Mukhopadhaya , Art Konsult , New
Delhi
1999 42 nd National Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New
Delhi
1999 Gallery Alternatives, Gurgaon
1999 Art ana Cinema, Arushi Arts
2000 Art Folio, Chandigarh
2000 Combine Voices For the New Century National Gallery of Modern Art New
Delhi, Vis- a- Vis, Art Inc, New Delhi
2000 Contemporary Indian Women Artists Show, Gallery Freedom, New Delhi
2001 Christies, London, Auction of Asian Art
2001 “Kaleidoscope” Indian Contemporary Art, ISU Gallery, Singapore
2002 Gallery Karma, New Delhi
2003 Works in Mini Format, Garhi Artists Studios, New Delhi
2004 Indian Arts Circle Group Show, New Delhi
2004 Gallery Alternatives, Gurgaon
2004 Master Works from the Alkazi Collection, Art Heritage, New Delhi
2004 The Art Connection, British Council New Delhi, Birla Akademi of Fine Arts,
Kolkatta
2004 All India Artists Camp at Patni Top Organised By the Jammu and Kashmir
Akademi of Arts
2005 Opening Exhibition of Gallery Navya, New Delhi
2006 National Art Festival, Lalit Kala New Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir
Akademi
2006 Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and Indian contemporary Artists
Edinburgh Scotland
2007 Master Works from the Alkazi Collection, Art Heritage, New Delhi
2007 Independent India Ati Art Gallery and Alliance Frances New Delhi
2007 Times Of India Online Site
2007 Mystic Inspiration Online Site
2008 Art for the aged Auction Habiart Gallery
2008 Opening exhibition Epicentre Gurgaon.

2008/2009 Dus Mahavidyas ; Curated By Ravi Kumar,Visual Arts Gallery New
Delhi, Nvya Art Gallery New Delhi, Tao Art Gallery Mumbai, Time and Space
Bangalore.
2009: Living Art Expance , Galleria D’Art O’ Palacio New Delhi
2009, Unesco Bangkok, Power of Peace, Curated by Kalpana Shah , Tao Art
Gallery Mumbai
Evolve’ 10 th anniversary exhibition , Tao Art Gallery , Mumbai
2012‘India Art Fair’ New Delhi with Art Konsult
2011: ‘Feminnale’ Group Show curated by Vipul Saini ,Gallery Art Shashtra and
Gallery Art Walk New Delhi
Annual Art Exhibition, Tao Art Gallery Mumbai
‘Abstract Horizons’ Tao Art gallery Mumbai
2012‘Small is Beautiful’ in Dubai with Tao Art galleryMumbai
2012‘Skin Deep’ ,Religare Art Gallery , New Delhi
2013‘India Art Fair’ New Delhi with Art Konsult
2014 Acube 1x1 India Fine Art Gallery Mumbai
2014 Magnetic Forms III Art Konsult New Delhi
2014 Group show Tao Art Gallery Mumbai
2015 Exhibited along with BR Pandit and Abhay Pandit at Art Heritage NewDelhi
2015 Group Show Art Heritage New Delhi
2016 Art Konsult ‘ An Overwhelming Imagination’
2016 India Art Fair , Art Heritage Gallery
2017 Art Heritage group show ,
2018 Alliance Franchise Gurgaon , engaging in inequalities
2018 Finding Meaning Ampas Art Gallery New Delhi
2019 Art and Beyond , Bangalore

• 2013 Fellowship for Distinguished Achievements and Contributions in Fine Arts, Constituted By HIFA, Awarded by the eminent Jury headed by the Chairman Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi.
• 2001 The Charles Wallace India Trust Award by the British Council as Artist in Residence at the Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland
• 1996-98 National Fellowship by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India
• 1988 All India Award at the Golden Jubilee Exhibition of the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society New Delhi
• 1986 State Award by the Sahitya Kala Parisad New Delhi
• 1985 All India Award by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi