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1957
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Born Kanjari (Gujarat) India
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1974-81
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MA
Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, the M.S.
University of Baroda
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1981-83
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MA Sculpture, Royal College
of Art, London
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1983-97
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Freelance artist in London
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1997
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Returns to Vadodara
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Selected
Awards/ Residencies/ Fellowships/ Honours/ Appointments
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1976
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Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi, Ahmedabad
(Awards in 1978 and 1982)
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1979
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BA with Gold Medal and Distinction, Faculty of Fine Arts, the M.S. University
of Baroda
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1981
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Atul
National Drawing Competition, Lalit Kala Akademi, Ahmedabad (Award)
Drawing Competition
Chandigarh Museum,
Chandigarh
(Award)
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1981-83
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Awarded British Council Scholarship at the Royal College
of Art, London
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1983
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The Madame Taussaud's Award for Art at the RCA, London
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1984-85
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Artist in Residence in association with the Arts Council of
Britain at Kettle's Yard Gallery with Fellowship at Churchill
College, Cambridge
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1988
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Sculptor in Residence, Victoria & Albert
Museum, London
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1990
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Represented
Britain at the Third
Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, Japan (Award)
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1991
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Elected
Associate Member and Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Jack Goldhill Award and short listed for Korn/Ferry International Premier
Award
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1992
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Commissioned Sculptor
of the Victoria Square
by the City Council of Birmingham
The Civic Trust, Woodhouse and the Renaissance Awards for Victoria Square
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1993
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Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London
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1994
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Selected for a one man
show, Asian Artist Today- Fukuoka Annual VII Exhibition, organized by Fukuoka Asian
Art Museum, Fukuoka,
Japan
Award for the Design of Humanities Prize Medal, London
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1995
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Design and President's
Award, Victoria Square
Sculptures
The Landscape Institute and Marsh Fountain of the Year Award
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1998
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Selected
for the Millennium Medal Competition, London
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1999
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Appointed
Professor, Head of Sculpture & Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, the
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
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2001
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Awarded
Honorary CBE (Commander of the most excellent Order of the British Empire)
by the Queen Elizabeth, London
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2002
2006
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Quits the M.S. University of Baroda
Award of Excellence by Gujarat
Gaurav Samiti
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Lives and works in
Vadodara.
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