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Kalidas Karmakar

Present Position
Freelance Artist






Born in 1946 at Faridpur, Bangladesh


Education

1969 : Graduation in Fine Arts (5-yr LNM), Govt. College of Fine Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, India
1964 : Pre-degree study in Fine Arts (2-yr), Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka University, Bangladesh


Scholarship/Fellowship

2006 : Asian Cultural Council NY, Fellowship-Artist in Residence program
1997 : Govt of India ICCR Special Scholarship for research in Contemporary Modern Sculpture, West Bengal Lalit Kala Academy Studio, Kolkata
1988 : Nikho Artist Area, Fellowship, Resident Artist for research on Japanese Washi Paper Ar, Alfa Hill Studio, Japan
1987 : Japan Foundation Long-term Fellowship on Japanese Wood-block Fine Art, at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1981 : French Govt Superior Scholarship in Fine Arts, for research in multicolor etching at Atelier-17, with Prof. S W Hayter, Paris (1981-84)
1977 : Polish Govt Scholarship in Graphic Art at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw University


Solo Exhibitions

2009 : ‘Alluvial Diary’, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2008 : ‘Image of Nature’, Garden Gallery, Dhaka
2007 : ‘Soul Soil Symbols’ -Retrospective Graphic Art Exhibition & French Colour Technique Graphic Art Workshop, La Gallerie, Alliance Française, Dhaka
2007 : ‘Alluvial Dream & Reality’, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka
2006 : ‘Alluvial Soul & Symbol’, Studio Point B, New York
2006 : ‘Alluvial Image’, Bangladesh Embassy, Washington DC. USA
2006 : ‘Alluvial Pain & Salvation’, La Gallerie, Alliance Française, Dhaka
2002 : Gallery Yamaki, Osaka, Japan
2000 : ‘Sail Art’, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
2000 : Siraj Cultural Center and Kerman Cultural Center, Iran
2000 : Yazd Academy of Fine Art, Iran
1999 : Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1998 : West Bengal Lalit Kala Studio Gallery, Kolkata, India
1998 : Santiniketan Open Art Space (Hiralini), India
1998 : ‘Liberation '71 - Homage to Blue’, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (National Art Gallery), Dhaka
1997 : Multimedia Art Exhibition ‘Soul of an artist and his Land’, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1997 : ‘Pain and Salvation’, Alliance Française Art Gallery, Dhaka
1997 : ‘Love Lyrics Lamentation’,National Museum, Dhaka
1996 : Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1996 : Gallery 4, Los Angeles, USA
1995 : Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1994 : ‘Realisation of soul’,Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1994 : International Island Arts & Music Festival, Enoshima, Japan
1994 : ‘Neo-Image of Holy Symbol’, Washi Paper Art Exhibition National Art Gallery, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1993 : ‘Holy Image-1’, Yamaki Art Gallery ,Osaka, Japan
1993 : Gallery-4, L A, USA
1993 : ‘Reality and Dream’, Alliance Francaise Art Gallery, Dhaka
1992 : ‘Holy Image-2’,Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1992 : ‘Vision of Life’,Gallery JAA, Tokyo, Japan
1991 : Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1991 : Gallery JAA, Tokyo, Japan
1991 : ‘Love and Nature’, La Gallery, , Dhaka
1990 : “Holy Symbol” Yamanashi Museum of Art, Yamanashi Pref. Kofu, Japan
1990 : Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1990 : Contemporary 5 Artist Show, Gallery Memory, Japan
1990 : ‘Harmony in Vision’,Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
1990 : Los Angeles International Art Fair, LA, USA
1989 : Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1989 : Gallery JAA, Tokyo, Japan
1989 : Los Angeles International Art Fair, LA, USA
1989 : ‘Pain and Love’, La Gallery, Dhaka
1988 : Gallery JAA, Tokyo, Japan
1988 : Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1988 : Tokyo National University Art Space, Japan
1988 : Toyamaya Art Gallery, Kobe, Japan
1988 : Gallery Grando, Nagoya, Japan
1987 : Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1987 : Gallery Nagai, Tokyo
1987 : Italian Foreign Ministry Club Art Space, Rome, Italy
1986 : ‘10 years Exhibition 1976-86’, Hotel Sonargaon, Dhaka
1986 : Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1986 : Gallery Blanche, Kyoto, Japan
1985 : ‘First South Asian Solo Art Exhibition’, Working People Cultural Place Gallery, Beijing, China
1985 : Gallery Nabis-Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1985 : Visual Art Gallery, Visual Art Institute, Hong Kong
1984 : Gallery Bernanos, Paris
1983 : IMF Art Society Gallery, Washington DC, USA
1983 : Turkish Center Art Space, sponsored by Bangladesh Permanent Mission in UN, New York, USA
1983 : CIDA Art Space, Ottawa, Canada, sponsored by Bangladesh High Commission, Ottawa
1982 : Cite des Art Gallerie, Paris
1982 : CROUS Gallery, Paris
1981 : Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1980 : First Solo Graphic Art Exhibition in Bangladesh, Gallery Alliance Francaise de Dhaka
1980 : First Solo Drawing Exhibition, Goethe Institute, Dhaka
1980 : Shilpakorn University Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
1980 : University of Malaya Art Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1980 : TIM Art Center, Jakarta Art Council, Indonesia
1980 : ASRI, Academy Seni Rupa Indonesia Art Gallery, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
1980 : Bali Art Center, Denpasar, Indonesia
1979 : Travelling Exhibition, Damascus, Syria/Beirut, sponsored by H.E. Paulo Da Costa Franco, Ambassador of Brazil in Lebanon
1978 : Gallery Nusantra, Warsaw, Poland
1978 : Asia Pacific Museum, Warsaw, Poland
1978 : Gallery Young, Krakow, Poland
1978 : Gallery KMPK, Zakopane, Poland
1977 : Bangladesh Center, London, UK Warsaw KMPK Gallery, Poland
1977 : Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Poland
1976 : Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Gallery, Dhaka
1976 : First Solo Art Exhibition after 1971, sponsored by Bangladesh Embassy, Washington DC, USA
1973 : Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation Festival, Kaptai, Chittagong, Bangladesh
1971 : Transition-7, New Delhi, India
1970 : Missouri Mall, Missouri, India
1969 : Ahmedabad Art Club, Open-air Art Exhibition, India


Group Exhibitions

2008 : KOLKATA-DHAKA art exhibition, organized by Arts Trust and Bengal gallery of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India
2008 : Bangladesh Contemporary Art Week, New York, USA
2008 : Contemporary Bangladesh : Art from a Vibrant Culture, European Commission, Brussels
2008 : Asian Art Biennial, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
2006 : Asian Art Biennial, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
2002 : Asian Art Biennial, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
2000 : First Islamic World Contemporary Art Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
2000 : 9th Asian Art Biennial, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
2000 : ‘Art Exhibition for Victims of the Great Earthquake in Japan’, organized by Yomiuri Newspaper, Japan
2000 : Bangladesh Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka
2000 : Bangladesh Contemporary Mobile Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1999 : International Art Camp, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1999 : ‘Permanent display’, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Show, Fukuoka, Japan
1998 : National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1997 : Asian Art Biennial, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1996 : National Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Dhaka
1994 : 7th Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1992 : National Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Dhaka
1992 : International Los Angeles Art Fair, USA
1991 : 6th Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1991 : International Los Angeles Art Fair, USA
1990 : Bangladesh Contemporary Art Exhibition, Paris, France
1990 : International Los Angeles Art Fair, USA
1989 : Group Art Show, Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1989 : International Los Angeles Art Fair, USA
1988 : Bangladesh Contemporary Art Exhibition at Meguro Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1987 : Graphic Atelier-71, Group Art Exhibition, Rome & Milan, Italy
1986 : 3rd Asian Art Biennial, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1986 : Indian International Triennial, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
1986 : Seoul Contemporary Asian Art Show, Seoul, Korea
1986 : Graphic Atelier-71, Group Art Show, Sheraton Art Space, Dhaka
1985 : Second Asian Art Show, Fukuoka City Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1985 : Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1984 : Cite des Art International Art Exhibition, Paris, France
1983 : Cite des Art International Art Exhibition, Paris, France
1983 : International Art Exhibition, Organized by CROUS, Paris, France
1982 : Group Art display, Atelier-17, Paris, France
1982 : International Art Exhibition, Organized by CROUS, Paris, France
1981 : First Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1981 : The Sixth Festival of Asian Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
1980 : Bangladesh Contemporary Art Exhibition, White Chapel Gallery, London, UK
1979 : Bangladesh First Contemporary Art Exhibition, Warsaw, Krakow, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belgrade, West Germany, GDR, Sweden, Denmark
1978 : Pacific Print Biennial, Australia
1976 : Life in Bangladesh Art Show, Bangladesh Shilpakala Aeademy, Dhaka
1975 : First National Drawing and Print Exhibition, Dhaka
1975 : National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1974 : Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Bangladesh College of Arts & Crafts, Dhaka
1972 : National Art Exhibition, Lalitkala Academy, New Delhi, India
1969 : Annual Art Exhibition, Govt. College of Arts & Crafts,Calcutta, India
1968 : All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi, India
1968 : All Indian youth Art Festival Competition, Kolkata, India


Event Performance & Environment Art

2008 : Homage of Alluvial Soil-2, Kotka beach, Sundarnbans, Bangladesh
2008 : Homage of Alluvial Soil-1, Lumbok beach, Indonesia
2008 : Image of Acid Victim, Painting with music, Garden gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2008 : Image of SIDR, Painting with music, Garden gallery, Dhaka
2006 : Harmony in vision-5, Paint with sitar at Bangladesh Embassy Washington, D.C. USA, For victory
day celebration
2006 : “Harmony in Motion” at Point B Studio, New York, USA
2004 : Mud-Soul-Body Art at Yogyakarta Art Gallery, Indoneshia.
2003 : “Mukti”, Mud and Nature at KEPZ, Chittagong
2000 : “Harmony in Vision -1”, Paint with Traditional Iranian Music, Santor & Daff, Tehran contemporary Museum of Art, Tehran, Iran
2000 : “Harmony in Vision-2”, Paint with Traditional Iranian Music Santor & Daff, Siraj Cultural Center, Siraj, Iran
2000 : “Harmony in Vision-3”, Paint with Traditional Iranian Music Santor & Daff, Kerman Cultural Center, Kerman, Iran
2000 : “Harmony in vision-4”, Paint with Traditional Iranian Music Santor & Daff, Yazd Academy of Fine Art, Yazd, Iran
1999 : “Performance with Fire-Paint-Music”, Meghna River, Dhaka
1998 : “Installation Art with Fire-Paint-Mud”, Hiron Point, Sundharban, Bangladesh
1997 : “Environmental Art with Music & Paint” River Padma, Bangladesh
1996 : “Installation Art with Fire-Paint-wood-and Baul Music”, Dublarchar, Bay of Bengal in Collaboration with guide Tours Ltd., Bangladesh
1996 : “Paint with Mud & Music”, Katka Beach, Sundharban, Bangladesh
1996 : “Environmental Art with Paint-Sand-Song and Puppet”, Sundharban, Bangladesh
1996 : ‘National Watercolour Workshop’, Sundarban, Bangladesh
1994 : Installation and Environmental Art ‘The Cry of the Padma’ in collaboration with Helikon Flim GMBH, Germany, at River Padma, Bangladesh
1993 : Installation Art with Paint, Fire and Tribal Mask, Paro, Bhutan
1992 : Body Art Performance ‘Nude-Nature-Washi & Paint’, with Alfa-Hill Studio, Yamanashi, Japan
1992 : Performance ‘Nude-Nature-Paint’, Samed Island, Thailand
1991 : Body-Art, Los Angeles International Art Fair, USA
1991 : ‘Paint in Action’, Rio-Carnival, Rio, Brazil
1990 : ‘Harmony in Vision-Paint with Music’, Hong Kong, organized by Hong Kong Asia Trust, with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Zakir Hossain and orchestra conducted by Fukumora from Japan
1988 : ‘Paint with Mime-Padma Nadir Majhi’, with Partha Pratim Majumder, Paris, Rouen, Bordeaux, France, to raise funds for flood victims in Bangladesh.


Awards and Honor

2000 : Judge in the ‘First Islamic World Contemporary Art Biennial’, Tehran Contemporary Museum of Art, Iran
1996 : Two Purchase Awards at the International Art Exhibition, Osaka, Japan, organized by Yomiuri Shimbun in the aid of Hanshin earthquake victims
1985 : Two Purchase Awards at the 2nd Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
1984 : Best Award in Graphic Art (Etching) at the International Biennial de L estam Camp Ville de Sarcelles, France
1984 : Best Award in Graphic Art at the International Exhibition in Paris, organized by the French Ministry of Cultural, Academy of Paris and CROUS, France
1978 : Awarded 5 Medals by Asia and Pacific Museum for outstanding artwork, Warsaw, Poland
1969 : Best Exhibition Award in Oil Painting, Govt. College of Arts & Crafts Annual Exhibition, Dhaka
1969 : Silver Medal, Best Group of Graphic Arts, College Annual Exhibition, Dhaka
1968 : Certificate of Merit, Calcutta University Institute Painting Competition, India
1968 : Certificate of Merit, Best Water Color, College Annual Art Exhibition
1968 : Medal in Oil Painting, All India Youth Festival Art Competition, Kolkata
1967 : Silver Medal, Best Graphic Art (Etching)
1966 : Silver Medal, Best Group of Water Color & Basic Design, College Annual Art Exhibition, Dhaka.


Public Collections

Asian Cultural Council, New York. Bangladesh Consulate General, New York; National Art Gallery, Bangladesh; Asia and Pacific Museum, Warsaw, Poland; Seni Asia Museum University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Fukuoka Asian art Museum, Fukuoka City, Japan; Bangladesh National Museum, Dhaka Bangladesh; Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo, Japan; Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan; Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland; Washington Theatre, Arena Stage, Washington D.C., USA; Teharn Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran; Jakarta Art Council, Bali Art Center, ASRI, Indonesia; Shilpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; IMF, World Bank, Washington DC, USA; French Ministry of Culture Crous de Paris, Cite de Arts, Unesco, Paris, France; Chinese Ministry of Culture, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China; Nippon Chistian Academy, Kyoto, Japan; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome, Italy; Nikho Artist Area, Yamanashi, Yamaki Art Gallery, Toda-Sho-Ten, Osaka, Japan; Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka; Youngone Corporation, Seoul, Korea; Youngone Corporation- KEPZ, Bangladesh; Bengal Foundation, Bangladesh; BRAC, Bangladesh; Arab Bangladesh Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Biman, FDC, Bangladesh Tourism Corporation, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Bangladesh Embassy- London, Washington DC, New York, Tehran, Warsaw, Rome, Beijing, Tokyo, Paris.


Private Collections (Selected)

Major works have been collected by Mr. Kihak Sung, Youngone Corporation, Korea and Bangladesh, Mr. Hiroshi Toda, Mr. Takeo Yamaki, Mr. Takashi Kobayashi, Mr. Abul Khair, Chairman, Bengal Foundation, Ambassador Paulo Da Costa Franco, and many other private collectors,at home and abroad.
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Activities

2012

Solo Exhibition

Sumana Akter
Nasima Khan

Group Exhibition

Amity of Our's
Kibria Printmaking
Fair, 2012


Photography

Sayeed Siddiqui Rumi
Babu Ahmed

Seminar and other
Programs


Book Drive


2011

Solo Exhibition

Farhana Islam
Sanjib Datta
Ali Akbar
Dravid Saikot
Mustapha Khalid Palash
Minufar Nasrin

Naimul Bari
Mohammad Eunus
Mohammad Salim
Anwar Hossain

Group Exhibition

Crossover, 2011
Angina
Express Yourself
The Country of Rising Sadness
Group Painting Exhibition
Master and Apprentices
Paintings by Childrens
Rejoice
Jago Antore Momo

Workshop

Rickshaw Painters

Photography

Anwar Hossain
Plays in Light
Globalization: A Bipolar Story
Nafis Ahmed Nadvi

Seminar and other
Programs


Liberation War
Documentary Festival

Speech-Presentation
Bonsai Exhibition
K G Subramanyum

2010

Solo Exhibition

Jamal Ahmed
Monica Jahan Bose
Ferdousi Priyabhashini
Wakilur Rahman
Showpon Choudhury

Group Exhibition

Tree & Roots
Drawing Exhibition

Workshop

101 Art Camp
15 August 2010
Balu Chaya

Performance

Seiji Shimoda

Seminar

 

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