Dhruva Mistry

River, part of a set of sculptures in Victoria Square, Birmingham

Dhruva Mistry CBE, RA. is a sculptor, born in Kanjari, Gujarat, India, in 1957.

Life

Mistry studied at the M S University of Baroda, from 1974 to 1981, and then, on a British Council Scholarship, at the Royal College of Art in London. His first solo exhibition was held at Art Heritage, New Delhi, touring to the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 1982. He was Artist in Residence at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, with a Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge in 1984-5 and sculptor in residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 1988. He represented Britain at the Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition in Japan in 1990 and was selected for the solo show 'Asian Artists Today — Fukuoka Annual VII', by the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan in 1994. In 1992 he was commissioned by Birmingham City Council to design sculptures for Victoria Square, Birmingham.[1]

Mistry was elected Royal Academician in 1991, Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1993 and was awarded an Honorary CBE in 2001. In 1997 he returned to India to become Professor, Head of Sculpture and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at M S University of Baroda.[1] He resigned from the post in 2002.[2]

Works

Reguarding Guardians of Art, National Museum Cardiff

References and sources

  1. 1 2 "Dhruva Mistry". Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Dhruv Mistry resigns from MSU fine arts". Times of India.
  3. ↑ "Reguarding Guardians of Art". Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Reguarding Guardians of Art". National Museum Wales. Retrieved 29 May 2014.

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