Solo Shows


2000        Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998        Birla Academy of Art, Calcutta
1997        Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Mumbai
1995        Gallery B.A.I., New York
1994        Gallery B.A.I., New York
1975        BirthdayBook, New York
1973        BirthdayBook, New York
1972        Selected Artists Gallery, New York
1967        Pundol Gallery, Bombay
1966        Gallery Chemould, Bombay and Delhi
1966        Taj Art Gallery, Bombay
1965        Taj Art Gallery, Bombay
1961-65   World House Galleries, New York (4 shows)
1958         Rome Institute of Oriental Studies, Italy
1952-54   Bombay, Calcutta and New Delhi

Exhibitions

1982        Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
1982        India: Myth and Reality; Aspects of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Modern  Art, Oxford, England. 
                             Exhibition catalog.  
1977-78   Pictorial Space: A Point of View on Contemporary Indian Art, Conceived  and Compiled by 
                            Geeta Kapur.Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan Galleries,  New Delhi. 
                            Exhibition catalog, foreword by Geeta Kapur.
1973       Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.              
1968-69 Commonwealth Exhibition, Montreal
1968       Triennial, New Delhi
1963-64  Paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 
                            Exhibition catalog, foreword by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
1963        Commonwealth Exhibition, London
1963        Dunn International (102 Best Painters of the World), Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B. 
                            and Tate Gallery, London
1963        National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1962        Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1960        Sao Paulo Biennial
1957/59   Tokyo Biennial
1956/58   Venice Biennial

Group Shows

1997        50 years of Art in Mumbai, The National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1997        To Celebrate India's 50 years of Independence, Permanent Mission of India Building, NY
1995        India: Reflections of a Country, Krasdale Gallery, New York
1995        A Group of 8 , Contemporary Arts of India, New York
1994        Permanent Mission of India, New York
1993        Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New York
1992        Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York
1989        Exhibition of Art, Culture and History, First Global Convention of People of Indian Origin, 
                            Sheraton Center, New York
1983        The National Arts Club, New York
1982        Modern Indian Paintings. From the Collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. 
                            Catalog
1978        Contemporary Artists of India, New India House, New York, Catalog, 
                             foreword by K. Srinivasan, Consul General of India
1978        Contemporary Artists of India, Alternative Center for International Arts, New York, Catalog, 
                             foreword by  Robert H. Browning
1977        Keen Gallery, New York
1977        Couturier Galerie, Stamford, Connecticut
1977        ASIFS Gallery, New York
1970        Art of Modern World, Gallery of International Modern Art, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 
                             Calcutta,Inauguration by H.E. Kenneth B. Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India
1969        Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1969        The University of South Florida
1966        India Group Show, Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center
1965        Gallery Chemould, Calcutta
1966        Gallery Chemould, Bombay, Delhi
1966        Taj Art Gallery, Bombay
1962-64  Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (one exhibition per year)
1962        Mary Washington College
1959        Contemporary Indian Art, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi and various museums in Germany
1959        The Graham Gallery, New York
1958        Gallery One, London
1956        New Delhi, India
1953        Gallery Palette, Zurich, Switzerland

Bibliography

Bittersweet: The Asian-Indian Experience in the USA, a video by Sanjeev Chatterjee. 
                             Includes interview with Mohan Samant
Illustration, Where, New York, October, 1995
Feature article and illustration, India Today, February 15, 1995
Award Winners: National Exhibition of Art  1955-1990, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Article, Span October 1982
Listing, Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, Catalog of the Collection , January 1, 1977
Illustration #351, Painting and Sculpture in The Musem of Modern Art, 1929-1967, by Alfred H. Barr
Feature article and illustrations, Illustrated Weekly, India, December 12, 1965
Feature Article and illustrations, Time Magazine, March 6, 1964

Reviews

New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, February, 1961, February 1, 1964, October 2, 1965, 
Art News, Economic Times, 1972, various Mumbai newspapers

Other Coverage

Modern Art in India by Ajit Mookerjee. Calcutta, 1956
Art of India by Norman Brown, Art of the World Series by Norman Brown
    
Awards

2000        Asian American Heritage Award
1958        Cultural Exchange Scholarship of Asia Society, New York
1957        Cultural Exchange Scholarship of Italian Government
1956-7     Gold Medal of Bombay Art Society
1956         Lalit Kala Academy Award (All Indian Art Award)
1954         Governor's Prize, Maharashtra
1952         Calcutta Art Society

Public Lectures

Lecture tour of various universities of the United States in 1959. Lectured on contemporary 
                            Indian painting  and Indian classical music with demonstration on the
                            Indian instrument, sarangi
    
Education    

Graduated from Sir J.J. School of Arts, Bombay, India in 1952.
Studied Bashouli miniature painting under M. Palsikar, traditional Indian painter

Collections

Asia Society, New York
Birla Art Academy, Calcutta
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Colgate University, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi    
Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
Tata Atomica Institute, Mumbai, India