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Kavitha Balakrishnan is a poet, art critic, and Contemporary art researcher.

Kavitha balakrishnan (born June 1, 1976) is an Art critic

Art critic

An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...

, poet http://www.harithakam.com/ml/Poet.asp?ID=133, Contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

researcher,art painter and Art Curator

Curator

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. She started her teaching career as a lecturer of Art History at College of Fine Arts Trivandrum

College of Fine Arts Trivandrum

The College of Fine Arts Trivandrum is a fine arts college located in Kerala, India.-History:The college was founded in 1888 by Moolam Thirunal Sir Rama Varma, the then Maharaja for the state of Travancore. The college was first known as H. H...

from 1998 to 1999. She later lectured at the R.L.V.College of Music and Fine Arts in Thrippunithura and as a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Fashion Technology

National Institute of Fashion Technology

National Institute of Fashion Technology is a prestigious fashion institute in India. It was set up in 1986 under the aegis of the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India and is a premier institution in design, management and technology, developing professionals leadership positions in the...

(NIFT) in Mumbai. Balakrishnan is currently a lecturer in Art history

Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

and Aesthetics

Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...

at the Govt. College of Fine Arts in Thrissur. Kerala state, India.

Academic career

Balakrishnan received her Master's degree in Fine Art History and Aesthetics in 1998 from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, commonly referred as M. S. University , is a university in the city of Vadodara, in Gujarat state, India...

. Then she produced a research thesis on the practice of literature-oriented illustrations in Malayalam periodicals' for which she was awarded Ph.D in 2009 from Mahatma Gandhi University

Mahatma Gandhi University

Mahatma Gandhi University, also known as M G University, was established on 2 October 1983 in Kottayam. The University Grants Commission of India does not believe that the names of Indian universities should be unique, so another UGC-recognized government-run Mahatma Gandhi University was...

, Kottayam.

Awards

At the age of 13 she received the Soviet Land Nehru Award for Painting while she spent the summer at the Crimean coast of the Black Sea, Ukraine (former Soviet Union) at Artek (camp)

Artek (camp)

Artek is a Young Pioneer camp near Gurzuf, Ukraine. It was established on June 16 1925 on the Black Sea in the town of Gurzuf located on the Crimean peninsula, near Medved Mountain, Ukraine. The camp first hosted only 80 children but then grew rapidly. In 1969 it had an area of 3.2 km²...

's Inter National Young Pioneer Camp.

Her book keralathile chitrakalayude varthamanam won the state award for the best book on art in Malayalam in 2007 from Lalitha kala academy. She has also been awarded the SBT sahitya puraskaram in 2005 and an Ayyappan puraskaram for poetry in 2007.

Poems

Angavaalulla Pakshi (Rainbow Book Publishers Chengannur, 2004)

Njan Hajarundu (DC Books Kottayam,2007).

Art

Keralathile Chitrakalayude Varthamanam, Rainbow Book Publishers, Chengannur 2007. A collection of articles on 20th century art practices in Kerala, serialized by the periodical Madhyamam weekly in 2003

Adhunika Keralathile Chitrakala (The Present of Art in Kerala), Kerala state Language Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, 2007.

ARTEK anubhavangal (on her visit to former U S S R ), Vishwadarshan Publishers, 2003.

Articles on Contemporary Art published in English

'up close n personal'

A series of essays locating the trajectories of significant people in Contemporary art.

The column appears in a major websites for Indian Contemporary art.

Group shows

1.Soviet Information Hall, New Delhi, 1989.

2.Govt. Museum Art Gallery, Chandigarh 1995.

3.Women Artists in Kerala, curated show of women painters, Contemporary Art Gallery, Kochi.

4.‘South by Southwest’, Travencore House, New Delhi, 2007.

5.‘Ophelia’ a show of water colour works, Gallery OED, Kochi, 2007.

6.‘Hide and Seek’ Gallery OED, Kochi, 2008.

7.'L'Mechine' Gallery OED, Kochi, 2009.

External links

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