A contemporary Indian painter and sculptor, Jagannath Panda creates intricate art that becomes fascinating point of synthesis between the mythological and the technological. The mythological undergoes a sort of an avant garde transformation in his work as he fuses the mythological with elements from contemporary pop culture to create stunning and compelling works that are truly contemporary in their sensibilities.
Born in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa in 1970, Jagannath Panda completed his Bachelor’s degree in sculpture at the B. K. College of Arts and Crafts there in 1991,and his Master’s degree in the same at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University, Baroda in 1994. He served as a visiting researcher at the Fukuoka University of Education, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1997, and also completed another master’s degree in fine sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London, 2002.
In his detailed mixed media paintings, drawings and sculptures, Panda mixes motifs from traditional Indian art with images from western and Indian contemporary culture. These hybrid works often investigate the effects of globalisation and the resultant impact of the mainstream model of development that a country follows. So, even though the imagery and the style might seem fantastic and somewhat surreal, the works are very much rooted in reality as they try to convey the tensions inherent in the country’s socio-economic transformation and its foray into a globalised and a modern universe, so to say. He often humanises animals to become part of this seemingly ambiguous universe that he creates.
Jagannath Panda has had numerous solo shows in India as well as in world cities like London, Tokyo, San Fransisco, etc. He has also participated in group exhibition across the country as well as abroad. 1990 he won the Lalit Kala Akademi Award, and was also honoured with the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society Award, New Delhi, in 1996.
The artist lives and works in New Delhi.
Education
2002 Master of Arts, Fine Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
1997 Visiting Research Fellow, Fukuoka University of Education, Japan
1994 Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Faculty of Fine Arts, Mahraja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1991 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture), B.K College of Art and Crafts, Bhubaneshwar
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 'The Trance Narratives', Halcyon Gallery, London
2012 'Opaque', Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
2012 'Cults of Serendipity', Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco
2011 'Metropolis of Mirage', Nature Morte, New Delhi and Berlin
2009 'The Action of Nowhere', Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi; Alexia Goethe Gallery, London
2007 ‘Nothing Is Solid’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2006 Berkley Square Gallery, London
2005 Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi
2000 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2000 Nature Morte at the Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, New Delhi
1998 Za moca Foundation Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 'Zameen', Art District 13, New Delhi
2013 'The SKODA Prize Show', National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Ministry of Culture, Government of India in collaboration with The Skoda Prize at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
2013 'Peak Shift Effect', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'WAR ZONE: Indian Contemporary Art', ARTEMONS CONTEMPORARY, Das Kunstmuseum, Austria
2012 '2012: A Further Global Encounter', Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2012 'Terrestial Bodies', 1 x 1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2012 'Slipping Through The Cracks', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2011 'Regards Croisés: A Selection of Asian Contemporary Art', Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon
2011 'Tolstoy Farm: Archive of Utopia', presented by Seven Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2011 'Indian Rainbow', Luce Gallery, Torino
2011 'Iconoclasts & Iconodules', Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Inside India', Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin
2010 'Freedom to March: Rediscovering Gandhi through Dandi', presented by Ojas Art at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2010 'At The Edge', Gallery Maya, London
2010 'Looking Glass: The Existence of Difference', Twenty Indian Contemporary Artists presented by Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi in collaboration with American Centre; British Council; Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
2010 'Midnight's Children', Studio La Citta, Italy
2010 'Who Has Seen Gandhi?', presented by Tangerine Art Space at Raj Bhavan; KynKyny Art Gallery and Tangerine Art Space, Bangalore
2010 'Indian (Sub)Way', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2010 'Dialogues: A Selection of International Contemporary Artists', Bartha & Senarclens Partners, Singapore
2010 'Eye of India: A Selection of Contemporary Indian Artists', Bartha & Senarclens Partners, Singapore, in collaboration with Nature Morte, New Delhi
2010 'Third Dimension', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Nature Revisited', Aakriti Gallery, Kolkata
2010 'Singularities', RL Fine Arts, New York
2009 'Astonishment of Being', Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2009 'Vistaar II', presented by Seven Arts Limited at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'In The Mood For Paper', F2 Gallery, Beijing
2009 'The Human Animal', jointly presented by Gallery Threshold and Arts I (Religare Arts Initiative) at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2009 'Bapu', presented by Saffronart in association with Berkeley Square Gallery, London
2008-09 'Where In The World', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2008 'Nature Of The City', Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2008 'Urgent Conversations', Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre and Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Indian Art at Swarovski ‘Crystal World’ Show, 2nd Exhibition, Tirol – Österreich, Austria
2008 'Portrait of a Place', Rob Dean Art Gallery, London
2007 'Hear and Now: Young Voices from India', Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery, London 2007 ‘Frame / Grid / Room / Cell’, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2007 ‘Private / Corporate IV’, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
2006 'Drawing Show an Act of Art II', Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 ‘Shadow Lines’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Paths of Progression’, Bodhi Art, New Delhi and Saffronart, Mumbai (travels)
2005 Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi
2005 ‘Negotiating Matter’, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Are We Like This Only?’, Vadhera Gallery at Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
2004 Galleri 27 Oslo, Norway
2004 ‘Generation-1’, Saffronart and The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi
2003 ‘Dots and Pixels’, Gallery Espace. New Delhi
2002 Graduate Show, Royal College of Art, London
2002 Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2002 Dali Universe, London
2001 Royal College of Art, London
2000 Khoj International Exhibition, The British Council, New Delhi
2000 Lalit Kala Akademy, Bhubaneshwar
1999 ‘Edge of the Century’. Art Inc. Gallery, New Delhi
1997 The Sight of Asia, Fukuoka, Japan.
1996 Manifestation of Visual and Verbal. New Delhi
1996 Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh
1995 ‘Beyond the Shores’, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
1994 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Bal Bhawan, Daman
1990 Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
1989 Museum of Fine Arts, Chandigarh
Joint Exhibitions
2014 'Avatar', with Dashi Namdakov at Halycon Gallery, London
Participations
2017 'Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection', Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2014 'Ode to Monumental: Celebration, Visuality, Ideology', presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2012 'Indian Highway VI', organized in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway at The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2012 'Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past', Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2012 Art Dubai, Dubai
2011-12 'Indian Highway', in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
2011 'Homespun', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2011 'Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Indian Highway IV', Travelling Exhibition at Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2010 'Finding India: Art for the New century', presented by Sakshi Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
2010 ‘Tokyo Art Meeting: Transformation’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2009 'Lo Real Maravilloso: Marvelous Reality', 20 Years Celebration of Gallery Espace at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2009 'Expressions at Tihar', Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi
2009 'Beyond Globalization', Beyond Art Space, Beijing
2009 'India Xianzai: Contemporary Indian Art', Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2009 'Contemporary Art from India', Palais Benedictine, Fecamp, France supported by Gallerie 88, Kolkata
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2008 Presented by Chemould Prescott Road at Art Basel Miami, Basel
2008 'SHContemporary 2008', represented by Bodhi Art
2008 'Art Basel', represented by Bose Pacia, New York and Nature Morte, New Delhi
2008 ‘The Armory Show’, represented by Nature Morte, New Delhi
2008 'Harvest 2008', organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2007 SHContemporary, Shanghai represented by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Honours and Awards
2002 Centre Prize, C.I.I.C London
1996 All India Fine Art and Crafts Society Award. New Delhi
1995 National Academe Award from Central Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1995 All India Drawing Award from Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi. Chandigarh
1994 India Award from South Cultural Centre. Nagpur
1991 Summer Show State Award by Working Artist Association, Orissa
1991 Alice Boner Memorial Award
1990 Orissa State Lalit Kala Akademi Award
1990 Silver Medal from A.I.U.A, Banaras
1990 All India Award from South Cultural Centre, Nagpur
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