NUPUR KUNDU
Nupur Kundu specialized in Fine Arts from the College Of Arts, New Delhi, India and has been exhibiting her abstract works at national and international level for two decades now.
• She has also achieved Sangeet Bhaskar in Indian Classical Dance (Kathak) from Chandigarh University and has performed on stage for eighteen years.
• She has been featured in India Today Magazines 30th Anniversary Issue amongst 30 young successful achievers turning Thirty (December 2005).
• Nupur is a recipient of the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award for Fine Arts, 2008.
• She received the Junior Fellowship, Ministry Of Culture, Government of India, 2011 – 2013.
• Recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award for the Best Contemporary Artist of the Year, 2014.
• Honored with Indian Council for UN Relations Award in the field of Fine Arts, 2015.
• Chosen by Times of India Group to Judge their annual Durga Devi Namastute - Best Durga Puja in New Delhi, 2014.
• Nupur has also worked closely with special children by conducting workshops. She has held Multi Media workshops for the British Council of India; IFFCO; Tihar Jail, New Delhi. She has also judged various Art Competitions – For the Times of India (NIE); For Hindustan Times (PACE); At the Rashtrapati Bhawan for school children; YMCA; AAI (Airport Authority of India), Jindal Steel and All India Camlin Art Competition at Lucknow in 2011.
• She is a board Member on DPS School Sirsa, Board Member of the WCD Committee (WCD) of the PHD Chamber of Commerce
• She has had a number of Solo and Group Exhibitions since 1996. The Artist works and lives in New Delhi.
MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 ‘Palette Scapes’ - Paintings & Sculptures at ITC SONAR Kolkata by Gallery Artistmindz
2017 Calendar Launch - ‘Palette Scapes’ by Gallery Artistmindz
2017 ‘Palette Scapes’ by Gallery Artistmindz at J.W Marriot, Kolkata
2016 ‘Palette Scapes’ by NDTV at www.mojarto.com
2015 ‘Summer Seas’ by Apparao Galleries, at Magnolias, Gurgaon.
2014 ‘The Edge of Colour’ by Apparao Galleries at The Lodhi, New Delhi
2013 Recent Works at India Design Fair, New Delhi
2012 Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
2007 ‘The Furious Purity’ at Sumukha Art Gallery, Bangalore
2006 Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Rhapsody in Space II’ at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre by Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Couple Show’ at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 ‘Rhapsody in Space I’ at Art Alive Gallery and Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
1999 Art Indus Gallery, Santushti Complex, New Delhi
COMMISSIONED WORKS
• Taj Phalaknuma Heritage Hotel, Hyderabad, 2011
• Commissioned Mural, Event with Priety Zinta for LML, Vespa Scooty
• Series of 75 Oil on Canvas done for Trident Oberoi, Mumbai, 2006
• Three commission works for TAJ GVK hotel, Chandigarh in 2005, one of which is a single piece Oil on Canvas of dimensions 7ft by 22ft.
• Jindal Steel Mural Painting, 7 ft by 20 ft, 2005
• In Private Collections with Gallery ArtistMindz, Bhubaneswar, Odisha; Peter Mueller – Mueller & Plate Gallery, Munich, Germany; Artist Anjolie Ela Menon; Salgaonkars, Goa; Uday Jain, Dhoomimal Art Gallery; Phd Chamber of Commerce; Air India; Bhubaneswar Airport, Odisha; Pheroza Godrej, Mumbai; Atul Kasbekar, Mumbai; SanteVita Hospital, Ranchi; K2K India, Sunita Kohli Architects; Bharat Shah, Mumbai; Ajay Devgn, Mumbai; Preity Zinta, Mumbai.
ART AUCTIONS
2017 Ngo Khushii
2013 Standard Chartered by Aura Art, Mumbai; ‘Colours of Life’ by Dhoomimal and ‘The Round Table India’ at Le Meridian, New Delhi.
2009 PlanUtsav Charity Auction by Plan India, MGF New Delhi.
2007 TEHELKA - The Art for Freedom Auction, London
2006 ‘India on Canvas’ by ‘Khushi’, British High Commissioners Residence, New Delhi.
ART WORKSHOPS AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
2019 Art Workshop – Gandhi Utsav – by Rajasthan Tourism and Seher
2017 Art Workshop Melange Season III at Puri by Gallery Artistmindz; Udaipur Art Camp
2016 Art Melange Season I, Bhubaneswar, Odisha by Gallery ArtistMindz
2016 Art for Impact by Reddys, Space Art Gallery at Hyderabad
2015 Workshop at IILM, Gurugram,
2014 Maitri - International Residency (Indo-Chinese Women) - Maitri, by ICCR and Empowerment,Jaipur
2013 VAMA Women Artists Camp at IGNCA, New Delhi
2012 Mandu, Gwalior by Dhoomimal Gallery.
2011 Marve Annual Art Camp by RPG Group and Arts Trust, Mumbai; SAARC Artists Camp at Poovar, Kerala by ICCR and Seher.
2006 Open Skies’ by Air India & Seher at Canterbury, U.K; AIFACS and SKP , New Delhi, Shantiniketan, West Bengal
2005 Help for Tsunami Victims at Tivoli Gardens, New Delhi
2004 Hampi, Department of Tourism, Govt of India, Karnataka; Amby Valley Sahara Lake City, Maharashtra; ‘Windscapes’, World Bamboo Congress, Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi
2004 CCMB Centre, Hyderabad by India Fine Art Mumbai
2000 – 1996 Surajkund Crafts Mela, Haryana; SKP, AIFACS, Artists for Kargil at New Delhi
