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Biography

Born : Mesar (Gujarat), India
Studied : Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay and Byam Shaw School of Art, London (The British Council Scholarship)


1976	Fellowship Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay
1976-78	Taught Sophia College Polytechnic, Bombay
1994	Artist-in-residence, British Museum, London and Harris Museum, Preston
2000	Artist-in-residence, Wisor & Newton Art Factory, London

One Person Exhibitions

1978

Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

1980

Arts 38 Gallery, London

1983

October Gallery, London

1984

St Botolph's, Aldgate curated by the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1. Shanti Panchal: Earthen Shades, Arts Council funded touring exhibition, curated by Cartwright Hall,Bradford and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester , touring to 10 venues across UK.

Kirklees, Huddersfield	Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough
Oriel Gallery, Cardiff	Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth	Newlyn Oriel Gallery, Penzance
Third Eye, Glasgow	Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham

1991

Square Gallery, London

1992

Royal Festival Hall, The South Bank Centre, London

1993

Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

1998

Shanti Panchal: The Windows of the Soul, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham and

1999

Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham

2000

Chappel Galleries, Chappel, Essex
Shanti Panchal: Private Myths, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London touring to

2001

Cartwright Hall, Bradford, Blackburn Museum and Art Galleries, Blackburn and

2002

Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry.

2003

Berni Gallery, Jersey Art Centre, Jersey, Channel Islands.
Shanti Panchal: A Personal Journey, The British Council, Mumbai, touring to Jehangir Art Gallery and Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, curated by Usha Mirchandani and Phiroza Godrej.

2006-07

Shanti Panchal: In the Mind’s eye, Chelmsford Museum, Chelmsford, Essex.

Selected Group Exhibitions

1980	Grand Prix International D’Art Contemporain, Monte Carlo, Monaco
1982	Between Two Worlds, Barbican Gallery, London. Gallerie Nina Dausset, Paris
1982-87	Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1983	Contemporary British Watercolours, Bankside Gallery, London
1985-87	JP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London
1987-89	John Moores Liverpool exhibition 15 and 16, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1988	Gujarati Indian Artists, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester
1988-90	The Contemporary Art Society, Smith Galleries, London
1989	On Commission: The Artistic Records Committee 1972-89, Imperial War Museum, London Figuratively Speaking, The Bankside Gallery, London
1989-90	The Tree of Life: New images of an ancient symbol, Cornerhouse Manchester, curated by the South Bank Centre and tour
1990-91	The South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
1991	BP Portrait Award exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London
1993	Innocence and Experience:Images of children in British art from 1600 to the present, curated by Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester and tour Discerning Eye, invited by the Judge Stephen Tumim, The Mall Galleries, London Cadences of the Heart: Works from South Asia in British Collections, Mead Gallery, Coventry
1995-96	Splash: Contemporary watercolour painting, curated by Walsall Museum and Art Gallery and tour
1996	Talking Pictures, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham Under Anden Himmel: International Triennale, Copenhagen,
1997	The Judge Hangs: a personal selection by Sir Stephen Tumim, Michael Parkin Gallery, London
1999	Watercolour C21, Bankside Gallery, London Chichester Open Art Exhibition, Edes House, Chichester
2000	W & N World-wide millennium painting competition, London, Brussels, Stockholm and New York An Exemplary Life, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk Cultural Ties, Jariwala/Westzone Gallery, London
2001	Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London The Singer & Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Competion, London, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham
2002	Intimacy, The Lowry, Manchester.
2003	Shantipath, Tao Art Gallery, Worli, Mumbai, India.
2004	Anticipations, Fine Art Resource, Jehangir Art Gallery and The Museum Gallery, Mumbai, India.
2005	Faith, Castle Museum, Nottingham LPS open exhibition, London.
2006-08	Royal Society of Portrat Painters, Mall Galleries, London and Manchester Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Indian Images, Art Pilgrim, London
2007	Rigard and Ritual (two persons show) Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, curated by Rachel Dickson & Julia Weiner, touring to
2008	CCi Space (university Gallery launch) Portsmouth. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Ananya, an overview of contemporary art, Visual Arts Gallery and Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
2009	Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London. RWS/ Sunday Times watercolour competition, London and touring Anglo-Indian Express, a group show, Grosvenor Gallery, London.>
2009-10	Portrait Prize Winners, A Gallery, Wimbledon, London, curated be Beatriz Hernandes. At the Edge, British Art 1950-2000, organised by and touring to Touchstone Rochdale, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, Gallery Oldham and Bolton Museum & Art Gallery
2010-11	Watercolour in Britain, curated by Tate Britain, touring to, Castle Museum Norwich, Millenium Gallery Sheffield, Laing Art Gallery Newcastle and Tate Britain London

Selected Awards

1974	Bombay Art Society, Bombay
1976	Maharashtra State Art Exhibition, Bombay
1983	Chris Beetles Award, RSW Bankside Gallery, London
1984	First Prize - Royal Overseas League, London
1987	John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 15, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1989	First Prize - London Paperworks, Square Gallery, London
1990	South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
1991	BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
1999	First Prize, Chichester Open Art Exhibition, Edes House, Chichester
2000	The Year of the Artists Award, London Arts, London
2001	First Prize, The Singer & Friedlander/ Sunday Times watercolour competition, London Shortlisted artist for the Financial Times/ Arts & Business Awards, London
2002	Nominated and shortlisted Artist for the Guild of British Asian Awards, London
2003	Nominated artist for the Asian Achievers Awards, UK The British Council Award (to exhibit work in India)

Selected Commissions


1985	Greater London Council, London. National Garden Festival, City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. Homerton Hospital, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Public Art Trust
1989	Imperial War Museum, London.
1993	London Borough of Harrow
1996	H. Goldie and Co Ltd for De Beers, London. Co-op Society CWS, Manchester.
1997	Commissioned artist for two stained glass windows, London
2006	B. Arunkumar / Rosyblue, Mumbai

Public Collections

Arthur Anderson Collection, London
Arts Council Collection
B Arunkumar / Rosyblue, Mumbai
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
Blackburn Museum & Art Galleries, Blackburn
British Museum, London
Cartwright Hall, Bradford
Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham
Coopers and Lybrand Collection, London
Co-op Society CWS, Manchester
Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay
De Beers, London
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Harrow Education Authority, Harrow, London
H. Goldie and Co Ltd, London
Homerton Hospital, Hackney, London
Imperial War Museum, London
Lalit Kala Academi, Ahmedabad
Leicestershire Museums, Arts and Records service, Leicester
Meghraj Bank, london
Meghraj Group, Jersey
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke- On- Trent
Singer & Friedlander Group plc, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
Winsor & Newton Art Factory, Harrow

Selected Bibliography

1980	Max Wykes-Joyce, Shanti Panchal: Arts 38 Gallery, Arts Review, 4 July
1981	Richard Cork, Art on View: Indian diversity, Evening Standard, 15 April
1983	Mary Rose Beaumont, The Whitechapel Open Exhibition, Arts Review, 1 April Peterborough, London Day by Day: Mystery Prize, The Daily Telegraph, 15 July, London
1986	William Packer,East End's local brew, Financial Times, 28 January.
1987	Stephen Games, Not just a pretty face: Bringing water to a dry ground: Shanti Panchal, The Independent, 27 May
1988	Jenni Lomax and Nima Smith, Earthen Shades: Paintings by Shanti Panchal, catalogue essays, Cartwright Hall, Bradford and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. Susan Morris, Shanti Panchal, Arts Review, London, July 1
1989	John Russell Taylor, The Show's the thing, The Times, 11 July, London Frank Ruhrmund, Earthen Shades: Shanti Panchal, Arts Review, November Sarah Kent, Back for Moores, Time Out 20/20 magazine Issue No. 8, November
1990	Philip Vann, Portrait of the Artist: Shanti Panchal, The Artist's and Illustrator's Magazine (cover page) Issue 43, April, Kaveri Ponnapa, Indian Images: the Paintings of Shanti Panchal, Swagat-IA Magazine, September. Angela Summerfield, Shared experience: Shanti Panchal, interview, overseas ROSL Quarterly Journal, September-November
1991	Kaveri Ponnapa, Bestriding two cultures: Shanti Panchal, The Times of India Saturday Review, 6 April, Bombay Tim Hilton, Choice: Shanti Panchal, The Guardian, 23 November
1992	Marina Warner, catalogue essay, Shanti Panchal, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London. Sarah Kent, Art Preview: Shanti Panchal, Time Out, July 29 Sara Holdsworth, catalogue, Innocence and Experience: images of children in British Art from 1600 to present, Manchester City Art Galleries ISBN 0 901673 00 5 Philip Vann, Seeing beyond the frame, RA Magazine, Preview No. 35, Summer, and Timeless Art: Shanti Panchal, Interview, Resurgence Magazine No. 153, July-August John Russell Taylor, On an Indian painter who works in Britain, The Times, London, August 5 David Lee, Viewpoints: Shanti Panchal, Art Review, Vol XLIV August
1993	Sister Wendy Beckett, The Gaze of Love: Mediations on Art, Marshall Pickering book ( page 72-73 ) Harper Collins Publication, London ISBN 0 551 02810 6 Nima Smith,catalogue, Candences of the Heart : works from South Asia in British Collections, Mead Gallery, Coventry Mark W L Scott, Editor’s Choice: Discerning Eye, Shanti Panchal, Watercolours, Drawings and Prints Magazine Vol 8 No1
1995	Sian Morgan, Shanti Panchal, Art & Craft Magazine, November
1996	Sir Stephen Tumim, My Cultural Life, The Guardian, 13 September
1997	The Times Diary, People - Party on: The week ahead, Saturday Directory, The Times, London, March 29
1998	Philip Vann, Previews: Shanti Panchal, Galleries, Vol XV No. 12, May 1998, ISBN 0265 7511 Balraj Khanna and Aziz Kurtha, art of Modern India, Thames and Hudson, London, ISBN 0-500-23755-7 Robin Dutt, Focus On: Shanti Panchal, Artists and Illustrators Magazine, Issue 141, June Richard Cork, catalogue essay, Shanti Panchal: The Windows of the Soul, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1999	Terry Grimley, Drawing on two Culture Scenes, Birmingham Post, January John Russell Taylor, The Big Show: Windows of the Soul, The Times, Metro (page 42), London, Feb 13 Samira Seth, Interview: A Double Life, Art India, The Contemporary Art Magazine Vol. 4, Issue 2, Apr-Jun
2000	Andrew Lambirth, catalogue essay, An Exemplary Life, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk Norbert Lynton, catalogue essay, Shanti Panchal: Private Myths, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London. Kapil Jariwala, Introduction, Cultural Ties, Westzone Publishing Ltd (page 128-9) London ISBN 1 903391 08 3
2001	Rich Jevons, Preview: Private Myths, The Leeds Guide, Leeds, January (page31) Mick Rooney RA, Gallery VII, Royal Academy Illustrated, Summer Exhibition (page 104-114) London Frank Whitford, Different strokes, The Sunday Times, Culture (page 6) London - Martin Gayford, Introductory Essay,BP Portrait Award 1990-2001, National Portrait Gallery (page 19) London ISBN 1 85514 328 3 Tracey Murkett, Inside Shanti Panchal’s Studio, an interview, artist & illustrators magazine, issue 183, December
2002	Sharmila Sagara, Profile: Shanti Panchal, the Times of India Ahmedabad, March 17. Two Distanced Figures for Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, National Art Collections Fund, 2002 Review.
2003	Laura Gascoigne, Panchal’s latest exhibition, The Spectator, London,June and Sight Specific, Shanti Panchal/ M.P. Birla Art Gallery, What’s On in London magazine, June 25 – July 2 Priya Singh, Beyond the Conventional, a conversation with Shanti Panchal, The Asian Journey, Asian Voice, London Heather Wells, The stillness of being, Faith and the Artist, Initiative, issue 9, Summer. Deborah Swellow, Shanti Panchal: An Introduction and Kamala Kapoor, On Shanti Panchal, catalogue asseys, Shanti Panchal: A Personal Journey, The British Council, Jehangir Art Gallery and Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai. The Art of Shanti Panchal, Connecting magazine, British Council, Mumbai ( cover page and page 11) October Kanu Nayak, On Art of Shanti Panchal, Mumbai Samachar, Mumbai Philip Vann, interview, Shanti Panchal: Timeless Art, Images of Earth & Spirit, published by Green Books Ltd. UK., A Resurgence art anthology, edited by John Lane and Satish Kumar. ISBN 1 903998 29 8 (page 34)
2004	Ranjit Hoskote, Introduction, Anticipations, Fine Art Resource, Jehangir Art Gallery and The Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2004-05	Richard Davey, Catalogue Interview, Shanti Panchal, Faith, Castle Museum, Nottingham ISBN 0 905634 70 5
2005	Dhruti Shah, Shanti Panchal at Christies Auction, Harrow Observer, London October 13
2006	Sushma Bahl, catalogue, Indian Images, Art Pilgrim, London, November Amit Roy, Eye on England: Riots of Colours The Telegraph, Calcutta and Panchal’s Paintings, Mid-Day news, Mumbai, Sunday 24 December
2007	Philip Vann, Shanti Panchal, Galleries, volume XXIV No. 8, January 07 Issue 284 ISSN 0265-7511 Andrew Lambirth, Luminous Serenity, Shanti Panchal: In the Mind’s eye, Chelmsford Museum, The Spectator, 13 January Richard Davey, A Contemplative eye on everyday things, Shanti Panchal: In the Mind’s eye, Chelmsford Museum, CHURCHTIMES No 7507, London, 26 January Nicholas Usherwood, catalogue essay, Rigard and Ritual, Ben Uri Gallery / The London Jewish Museum of Art, April. ISBN: 978-0-900157-05-9 Philip Vann, Subtle Vibrancy, Resurgence magazine, Sep/Oct 2007 No 244, ISSN 0034-5970 (page 40)
2008	Sushma Bahl, catalogue, Ananya, an overview of contemporary art, Visual Arts Gallery and Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India.