A study of Hebbar and his contemporaries
Head of Department of Art History College of Fine Arts Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore
This award was given to me when a student in MS University Baroda. It was timely and helped me to be more articulate by using photographs, travelling to Mumbai to meet the late K K Hebbar. My document was the first critical assessment of the artist and was published in Bangalore (where I was then Lecturer at Chritakala Parishath, in the local language Kannada.
I published 4 articles on Hebbar by 2000, have been invited to write and chair many sessions about the contemporary art movement in India and abroad, as well as curating, publishing more broadly on contemporary art and establishing myself as a visual artist.