Avantika Bawa

Biography: Lives and works in Portland, OR
Education: 2008; Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; 1998; MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 1995; BFA, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodra, Vadodra, India
Solo Exhibitions: 2014; Emigrant Lake, revisited – Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; Aqua Mapping, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA; 2013; Aqua Mapping(Kochi) – Pepper House, Kochi, India; 2012; Suyama Space, Blue (OIL), Seattle, WA; Another Documentation - Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India; About Framing – Half Dozen Gallery, Portland, OR; 2011; Disjecta, SCORE, Portland, OR; 2010; The Columbus Museum of Art, Re:Re:Re, Columbus, GA Mile Post 5, yesterday. Yellow., Portland, OR Doppler Gallery, HAlf, Portland, OR; 2009; Gallery Maskara, Mathesis: dub, dub, dub, Mumbai, India Carlos Gallery, Aspartame, University of the South, Sewanee, TN; 2008; SALTWORKS, Perfect Distortions, Atlanta, GA; 2007; Lalit Kala Academy, Denied Readymades (spaces, gaps and stacks), New Delhi, India; 2006; The Philip M. Meyers, Jr. Memorial Gallery, (Raw) space, Cincinnati, OH Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Summer solo's, Atlanta, GA Tilt Gallery and Project Space, Cut corners, Portland, OR; 2005; SALTWORKS, Tilt, Atlanta, GA; 2004; Nature Morte, Navigating Space/s, New Delhi, India; 2003; SALTWORKS, Untitled Corners, Site-specific installation, Atlanta, GA; 1999; ARC Raw space, Another Installation, Chicago, IL; 1996; India International center, The City and Popular Culture, New Delhi, India
Selected Group Exhibitions: 2014; Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru – Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada; 2013; Diver-Cities - Latitude 28, Curator Bhavna Kakar, New Delhi, India; 011+91/ 011+92 - Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada; Drawers Drawing - Julius Caesar and Peregrine Program, Curators Eric Lebobsky and Carrie Gundesdorf, Chicago, IL; 2012; Preternatural - St Brigids Center for the Arts (solo installation), Curator Celina Jeffery, Ottawa, Canada; Cocktail #ff0080 - A solo installation for the ‘Art in Rural Storefronts’ project, Curator Hester Coucke, Philomath, OR; 2011; Mason Murer Gallery, Art Papers Invitational, Atlanta, GA; 2010; Clark College, Vantage, Vancouver, WA; 2009; Museum of Contemporary Art, Movers and Shakers, Atlanta, GA; 2008; A City of Atlanta Project, A (New) Genre Landscape, Atlanta, GA; 2007; Tilt Gallery and Project Space, Blank - Exploring Nothing, Portland, OR; 2006; Smack Mellon, I can't quite place it, Brooklyn, NY; 2005; The Drawing Center, Wall to Wall, summer selections, NY, NY; 2004; India Habitat Center, Singular Identities, New Delhi, India Gallery Red, Motion Stills, Savannah, GA; 2003; White Columns and Momenta Arts, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NYC
Selected Bibliography: Priyadershini, S. “The Dot That Connects”, The Hindu, Kochi, December, 2013; Paterson, David. “Art Gallery Phone Home”, Mississauga News, July, 2013; Sorabjee, Deepika. "Pipe Dreams and Drawings", Art Slant India, August, 2012; Johnston, Susan. "Avantika Bawa at St. Brigids", Friday Special, CKCU.FM, 93.1 Ottawa, Canada, Jan 13, 2012; Mashi, Niha. "Hold On", The Sunday Guardian, June, 2011; Kilachand, Nayantara. "Hold On at Gallery Maskara", Wallpaper, June, 2011; Fritzgerald, Shannon. "Re:Re:Re", Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, January, 2011; Malone, Micah. "Critics pick", Artforum.com, February 2010; McClintock, Diana. "Perfect Distortion", Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, April, 2009; Byrd, Cathy. "A (New) Genre Landscape", Sculpture, April 2009; Richmond, Susan. "Perfect Distortion", Art Lies, Houston, TX, March 2009; Audio broadcast. "New Genre Landscape", NPR-WABE, Atlanta, GA, April 2008; Hicks, Cinque. "Speakeasy with Avantika Bawa", Creative Loafing, Atlanta, GA, December 2008; Tumbas, Jasmina, Tilt and deStructures, Drain - Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture (www.drainmag.com), April 2006; Cotter Holland, Where Drawing is what counts, The New York Times, NYC, June 2005; Mullarkey, Maureen, No Asset to Ground Zero - Drawing Center culture at the Ground Zero memorial, The New York Sun, NYC, June 2005; Howard, Christopher, Wall –to- Wall Drawings: Selections Summer 2005, The Brooklyn Rail, NYC, June 2005; Husband Bertha, Quiet Connect Savannah, Savannah, GA, May 2004; Fox Cathy, Carry on Drawing, Atlanta Art Journal, Atlanta, GA, January 2004; Drennen Craig, Vapour, Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, July 2002; Lebergott Karen, Suite on Art, The Reader, Karen Lebergott, Chicago, Illinois, May 1999; Grabner Michelle, New Artist in Chicago, The New Art Examiner, Chicago, Illinois, June 1998
Awards: 2013; Oregon Arts Commission – Joan Shipley Award, Salem, OR; Washington State University – Junior Faculty Seed Grant , WA; Oregon Arts Commission – Individual Artist Grant. Salem, OR; Regional Arts and Culture Council – Professional Development Award, Portland, OR; 2012; Oregon Arts Commission – Career Opportunity Grant, Salem, OR; Special Projects Award - Washington State University Vancouver - Vancouver, WA; 2011; Regional Arts and Culture Council – Portland, OR; 2009; VSC fellowship supported by the Joan Mitchell Foundation - Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; 2008; Lila Wallace Readers Digest Award - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; 2003; The Presidential Fellowship - Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Selected Collections: The Columbus Museum – Columbus, GA; White Columns – Curated Slide registry, New York, NY; Nature Morte - New Delhi, India; Maharaja Fatehsingh Museum of Vadodra - Baroda, India; Indian Harvest - Naperville, Illinois; India International Center - New Delhi, India; World Wildlife Fund - New Delhi, India

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