Atul Dodiya is an Indian artist.

Atul began exhibiting and selling his work in the early 1980s following his graduation from Sir J. J. School of Art

Sir J. J. School of Art

The Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art , is the oldest art institution in Mumbai, and is affiliated with the University of Mumbai...

 in Mumbai where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

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 degree. He furthered his academic training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

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 in Paris

Paris

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 from 1991 to 1992 subsequent to a scholarship awarded by the French Government.

Atul has had several solo shows in India and exhibited at 'Reflections and Images' Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and Mumbai, 1993 and 'Trends and Images' CIMA, Calcutta, 1993. Outside India, he has exhibited at Gallery Apunto, Amsterdam in 1993, participated in 'The Richness of the Spirit' Kuwait and Rome in 1986-89, 'India - Contemporary Art' World Trade Center, Amsterdam 1989, 'Exposition Collective' Cite Intemationale Des Arts, Paris 1992. He was given the Sanskriti Award, New Delhi in 1995. A recent painting, an oil and acrylic work on canvas dedicated to former Team India captain Rahul Dravid named "The Wall" fetched Rs 57.6 lakh in auction .

Atul is married to fellow painter Anju Dodiya and lives and works in Mumbai.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2010, Malevich Matters and Other Shutters, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 2008, Pale Ancestors, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
• 2007, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Museum Gallery, Mumbai Chemould Prescott, Mumbai
• 2006, Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore Singapore; Tyler Print Institute, Singapore; Bodhi Art, New Delhi, Mumbai, New York
• 2005, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara; Bose Pacia, New York
• 2004, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara
• 2003, Bose Pacia, New York
• 2002, Walsh Gallery, Chicago; Sakshi Gallery, Bombay; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
• 2001, The Fine Art Resource, Berlin; The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo; Gallery Chemould, Bombay
• 1999, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Gallery Chemould, Bombay
• 1997, Cima Gallery, Calcutta
• 1989, 91, 95,97, Gallery Chemould, Bombay

Awards

• 2008 - Raza Award, Raza Foundation
• 1999 - Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Italy
• 1999 - Sotheby's
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   Prize
• 1995 - Sanskriti Award
• 1982 - Government of Maharashtra
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  Gold Medal

External links

• Atul Dodiya at Gallery Nature Morte
• Works by Atul Dodiya
• Atul Dodiya on Culturebase.net
• Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India (exhibition 2007), National Gallery of Modern Art - includes the triptych Tomb's Day (2001)
• Tryst with mythic structures, The Hindu, Mar 03, 2006