Monsoon Canvas- Artist Biography
C.F John (1960)
Education :
Initiations in Art under Jyothi Sahi at Silvepura, Bangalore
Disciple of Anthony Devasy of Kalakendra, Thrissur
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2005 ‘Landscape Parables’, Malabar House, Kochi
1997 Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
1997 Mainz and Saarbrucken, Germany
1991 Alliance Francaise, Bangalore
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009 'Think Small', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'The Still Point in a Turning World', Galerie Métanoïa, Paris
2009 'The Root of Everything', Gallery Memento, Bangalore
2008 'Deeper Than Skin', DAIRA Centre for Arts and Culture, Hyderabad
2008 'Metropolis and the Self', Art Alive, New Delhi
2008 'In Small Format', Gallery Kolkata, Kolkata
2008 'Young Contemporary India', Gallery Kolkata, Kolkata
2007 ‘Colors of Art’, An Exhibition of Indian Contemporary Art, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘Emerging India’, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2007 ‘Four Artists’, Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
2007 ‘In the Fore’, Noble Sage Art Gallery, London
2006 'A Compensation for What Has Been Lost', Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi
2006 ‘Titled – Untitled’, ARTrium, Singapore, organized by National Arts Council, Singapore and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2006 ‘Indian Contemporary Art’, Indes Media, Paris
2006 ‘14 Bangalore Artists’, Hues Art Gallery, Chennai
2005-06 Vinnyasa Premier Art Gallery, Chennai
2005-06 ‘Mapping the South’, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai
2005-06 ‘Metrospective: Visual Representations of Metro Sexuality’, Mumbai, New Delhi
2005 ‘100 contemporary Indian Artists’, Gallery Art Resource Trust, Mumbai
2005 ‘Open Eyed Dreams’, Durbar Hall, Kochi
2005 ‘Landscape Parables’, Three Man Show, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 Inaugural show, Gallery Sara Arakkal, Bangalore
2003 ‘The Art on Paper Fair’, Stand 32, The Royal College of Art, London
2002 ‘The Dance of the Indian Brush’, Leboye Gallery, Kemang, Jakarta
2000 ‘Fragile Memories’, Bangalore
2000 ‘Eye of the South’, Mumbai and Bangalore
2000 ‘The Eternal Embrace’, Dubai
2000 ‘Temples of the Mind’, Three Man Show, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
1999 Kashi Art Café, Kochi
Joint Exhibitions:
2008 'Still.Silent', with T M Azis at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
2003 ‘Water lines’, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2002 ‘Temples of the Mind – II’, Arpana’s Gallery, New Delhi, Bangalore
Participations
2004 Annual Show, Gallery Sara Arakkal, Bangalore
2002 10th Asian Art Biennale, Bangaladesh Shilpakala Academy
2002 8th European Patch Work Meeting, France
2001 10th Triennale International, National Academy of Art, India
1999,98 'Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai
Collaborative Works:
2003 ‘Quilted’, Prop Specific Installation, Dance and Photography, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2003 ‘Walls of Memories’, An art event of Unresolved Edges’, Site Specific Installations, Dance and Photography in and around an open well
1999 'Paper Trails', Exhibition on Paper as Material, Bangalore
1998 'Celebrating Mangroves', Earth Works and Installations at the Sea Shore, Trivandrum
1998 ‘Territory - An Art Event’, Out Door Installations and Performance, Bangalore
1996 ‘A Quest for Celebration and Question on Waste’, Exhibition of Outdoor Installations and Earth Works, Thiruvalla
1995 ‘Silence of Furies and Sorrows’, Art Event with Installations and Performance, Venkatappa Gallery, Bangalore
1993 ‘From the Nether, The Ceaseless Dance’, Collective Works, Kochi, Kozhikode and Kannur
1993 ‘Celebrating Cultural Pluralities’, Exhibition of Spiral Painting, Ravindra Kalakshetra, Bangalore
Honours and Awards:
2005 Arad International Biennale of Art, Romania
2002 Honorable Mention, 10th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh
2000 Honorable Mention, 42nd National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi