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Erasing Borders: Indian Artists in the Diaspora: Feb-Mar 2007

Vijay Kumar

VIJAY KUMAR
410 Caton Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11218
Tel: 718-871-8342
E-Mail: kak8@nyu.edu

1962-67 Art student at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India
1967-68 Learned fresco restoration at Studenica Monastery in Yugoslavia
1975-85 Printmaking student, then assistant, at Pratt Graphics Center, NYC
1986- Founding member, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS

1967	Solo exhibition, Baladiya Hall, Basrah, Iraq Solo exhibition, The Society of Iraqi Artists Building, Baghdad, Iraq

1969	Solo exhibition, Kunstzaal Polder, Den Haag, The Netherlands Solo exhibition, The Loft (gallery), State College, PA Solo exhibition, Chambers Building Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

1970	Solo exhibition, Pattee Library, Pennsylvania State University, State College Solo exhibition, Hammond Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, State College “Festival of Arts 1970”, Lycoming County Historical Museum, Williamsport, PA

1971	Solo exhibition, Slippery Rock State College, Slippery Rock, PA

1972	Solo exhibition, Kern Graduate Building, Pennsylvania State University, State College

1975	Awarded Pratt Graphics Center prize

1977	“Artists 77”, Union Carbide Building, NYC “6th International Miniature Print Exhibition”, (initially presented at) Pratt Graphics Center Gallery, NYC

1979	“37th National Exhibition”, Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey, The National Arts Club, NYC (top award for graphics)

1983	“9th International Miniature Print Exhibition”, (initially presented at) Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, NYC

1987	Group exhibition, Associated American Artists (gallery) NYC

1988	Group exhibition, Ward-Nasse Gallery, NYC

1990	“38 Small Works”, One Twenty Eight (gallery), NYC

1993	“We count! The State of Asian Pacific America”, Tweed Gallery, NYC Solo exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC

1993-5	“Portraits in Words and Images”, travelling exhibition shown in California, Hawaii, England, Sweden, and at Harper Collins in NYC

1994	An Exhibition by Contemporary Indian Artists (organizer), Permanent Mission of India, NYC

1995	"The Traditional and the Unacknowledged", Condeso/Lawler Gallery, NYC "The Group of 8", Contemporary Arts of India, NYC Solo exhibition, Bose Pacia Modern Gallery, NYC "Postcards for Gandhi", New Delhi and other cities in India

1996	“Hand Matters”, Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY “Paper Transformed”, Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT “Mini Print ‘96”, travelling exhibition in India

1997	"New Horizons", featured artist at annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London Exhibition to Celebrate India's 50 Years of Independence (organizer), Permanent Mission of India Building, NYC "Five Artists from the Punjab", travelling exhibition in England "Swarajya", Gallery at 678, NYC Solo exhibition, L.T.G. Gallery, New Delhi, India

1998	“Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora”, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

1997-8	“Prints” (two-person exhibition), Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1998	“Prints” (two-person exhibition), Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH “Druckgraphic aus New York”, Gallerie Station 3, Vienna, Austria

2000	"The Print: Image & Process", Creative Arts Workshop Gallery, New Haven, CT "From Lake Erie to Now", Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY "Przestrzenie Grafiki", Galeria Sztuki, Cracow, Poland "American Prints", Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Cracow, Poland "Hudson River Mural Project", Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC “Passport to Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora”, NYC

2001	“34/2001”, exhibition at The British Council, New Delhi, India Print Room Exhibition, The Russell-Cotes Museum & Art Gallery, Bournemouth, England “29 Graveurs New Yorkais a Paris”, Gallery Delta, Paris “Works on Paper: Printmaking & Drawing”, Soho 20 Gallery, NYC “Spirit of the Horse”, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Mt. Kisco, NY Fifth Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Art 2001, Bhopal, India “Spokes and Rims”, Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT

2002	Exhibition of prints, Galleria Slad, Elk, Poland Exhibition of prints by The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London (received first prize) “The Horse Show 2002”, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Mt. Kisco, NY “The New York City Not-For-Profit Workshop Exhibition”, at the Art Students League of New York, NYC “September 11th” (Commemorative Portfolio), Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC

2003	"Poetry into Print: Impressions Inspired by Verse", Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT "The Horse Show 2003", Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Mt. Kisco, NY

2004	“Wish You Were Here”, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC “2004 Pacific States National Biennial Exhibition”, Campus Center Gallery, University of Hawaii at Hilo “Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art”, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT “The Horse Show 2004”, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Mt. Kisco, NY Sixth Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Art 2004, Bhopal, India

2004-6	“Multiple Encounters: Indo – US Print Exhibition in India” (co-curator), at: the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi (2004); the American Center in New Delhi (2004); the Government College of Art in Chandigarh (2005); and the Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademy in Jaipur (2006).

2005	“The God Show”, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI

2006	“Erasing Borders: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian-American Art” (curator), Consulate of India, NYC “The Humor Show”, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI “India: Proximities of Distance”, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

2007	“Erasing Borders: Indian Artists in the American Diaspora” (curator), Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY & The Guild Art USA (gallery), NYC

2008	Curator of contemporary Indian print exhibition, Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH.

Book illustration for What to Listen for in the World, by Bruce Adolphe, 1996. New York: 1st Limelight ed., Proscenium Publishers, Inc.

Currently teacher of printmaking at Manhattan Graphics Center in NYC, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk (CT), and the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
“A young Indian artist. Folk painting around the world” (cover story), by Rocco DiPietro. Mid-Stater (The Pennsylvania Mirror’s Weekend Magazine), May 17, 1969, pp. 1-3.
“Vijay”, by Rocco DiPietro, Jr. Town & Gown (State College, PA), August 1969, pp. 8-12.
“Vijay Kumar”. The Print Collector’s Newsletter, Vol. XXIV, No. 5, November-December 1993, p. 186.
“Vijay Kumar’s ‘India Porfolio’”. Flash Art International, Vol. XXIX, No. 186, January-February 1996, p. 38.
“Colors of Nostalgia”, by Lavina Melwani. India Today (North American Special Edition), March 15, 1996, pp. 64d-g.
“A slice of artistic life in the Big Apple”, by Anne Desmet RE. Bankside Bulletin (U.K.), No. 18, Spring 1997, pp. 1-2.
“50 artists’ exhibition honors jubilee”, by Jyotirmoy Datta. India Abroad, June 17, 1997, p. 7.
“’India Portfolio’ The hatreds of India”. The Earth Times (India After Independence issue), August 16-31, 1997, pp. 10-14.
“Artists’ profiles, an India Portfolio”, by Jacqueline Newell. Printmaking Today, Vol. 7, No. 3, Autumn 1998, pp. 8-9.
“Tracking the Indian diaspora”, by Thomas McEvilley. Art in America, October 1998, pp. 75-79.
“Vijay Kumar, an artist’s impressions”, by David Finklestein and Evelynn Letfuss. The Oberoi Group Magazine, Vol. IX, No. 1, 1998, pp. 50-52.

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