Avantika Bawa
2008
Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1996
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Masters of Fine Art - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1991
95
Bachelor of Fine Art - Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodra, Vadodra, India
2012
Another Documentation - Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India
At Owners Risk - Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
About Framing – Half Dozen Gallery, Portland, OR
2011
SCORE. - Disjecta, Portland, OR
2010
Re:Re:Re - The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
yesterday. Yellow. - Mile Post 5, Portland, OR
HAlf - Doppler Gallery, Portland
2009
Mathesis, dub, dub, dub - Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India
Aspartame – Carlos Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
2008
Perfect Distortions - Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007
Denied Readymades (spaces, gaps and stacks) - Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
Sit, Stack - Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Straight curves - The Fine and Performing Art Center at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
Big Stories, Little India - Audiovisual installations in collaboration with sound art group [murmur] and SAVAC, Gerrard st. east neighborhood, Toronto, Canada
2006
(Raw) space - The Philip M. Meyers, Jr. Memorial Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Summer solo\\\'s - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Cut corners - Tilt Gallery and Project space, Portland, OR
2005
Tilt - Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004
Navigating Space/s - Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2003
Untitled Corners - Saltworks gallery, Site-specific installation, Atlanta, GA
Unfiltered - Recent works, Aquaspace, Savannah, GA
1999
Another Installation - ARC Raw space, solo show, Chicago, IL
1996
The City and Popular Culture - India International center, New Delhi, India
2012
Preternatural - St Brigids Center for the Arts, Curator Celina Jeffery, Ottawa, Canada
2011
Art Papers Invitational - Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Faculty Biennial - Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, Pullman, WA
Art Pods - Space 4Art, Pod Installation for the Art Fair, San Diego, CA
2010
Vantage – Washington College, Curator Blake Shell, Vancouver, WA
Place – Pioneer Place Mall, Portland, OR
2009
Movers and Shakers – Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
Play – Spruill Center, Atlanta, GA
2008
A (New) Genre Landscape - A city of Atlanta Project, Curator, Stuart Keeler, Atlanta, GA
Comfort, Burn - Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Adventure in Mysticisms - ATHICA, Curator, Mike Calway Fagen, Athens, GA
Re-reorder – Marietta College, OH
SouthxEast Biennial: Contemporary Southeastern Art - Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2007
Blank - Exploring Nothing - Tilt Gallery and Project Space, Portland, OR
The Velocity of Gesture, or How to Build an Empire - Agnes Scott College, Curator, Lisa Alembik, Decatur, GA -protectingflatsurfacesfrom - Gallery 1600, Atlanta, GA
2006
I can\\\'t quite place it - Smack Mellon, Curator, Elizabeth Grady
Light - The MAGA festival, Macon, GA
2005
Wall to wall, summer selections - The Drawing Center, NY, NY
The Syncretic show – Curator, Dr. Celina Jeffery, Savannah, GA
Semiconductors – Curator, Craig Drennen, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angels, CA
Reorder - The Savannah Gallery, Atlanta, GA and Gallery Red, Savannah, GA
2004
Singular Identities – Curator, Dr. Alka Pande, Habitat Center, New Delhi, India
Dis_solve - Aquaspace, Savannah, GA
Motion Stills - Gallery Red, Savannah, GA
Erasing Borders – Curators, Sundaram Tagore and Aroon Shivdasani, -The Gallery, NY, NY
Quiet - Aquaspace, Savannah, GA
2003
Momenta Arts - White Columns and Momenta Arts, Brooklyn, NYC
2002
Current Circuits - A multi media group show, Espace Lhomond, Paris, France
Borderless Terrain – Curator, Dr. Alka Pande, Habitat Center, New Delhi, India
Vapour - A show of experimental time based media, aquaspace, Savannah, GA
Rebirth of Space - Avantika Bawa, Astra Howard, Cyrus Irani, 64 Steps Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001
Draw\\\'l bridge - Drawing based group show, aquaspace, Savannah, GA
2000
Liberal propaganda - Installation based group show, Curator, Marcus Kenney, Starland Galleries, Savannah, GA
Aqua - Multi media group show, aquaspace, Savannah, GA
Flower - Wall based work, Savannah, GA
1999
This is only a test - Broughton street storefront, Savannah, GA
Room service, Inn of Chicago - A Hotel Room group show, Chicago, IL
Lindenberg gallery - Chelsea, New York
\\"Du jour\\" - The Butcher shop, Chicago, IL
Abstract schematic - Five-person Show, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
1998
New Artists in Chicago - Terra museum of American Art, Juried Group show, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis show - Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1997
Salon de refuse - Lounge gallery Group show, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1996
Nippon Steel USA - Juried Exhibition, Chicago, IL
1995
The Art of Paper making – Curator, J.Babcock, Fine Arts gallery, Baroda, India
BFA exhibition - Fine arts gallery, Baroda, India
1994
Shrishti art gallery - Three-person show, Baroda, India
Artist Critic Nexus - Juried Group Exhibition, Fine arts gallery, Baroda, India
1993
Line, Variety and Variations - Five-person show, Fine arts gallery, Baroda, India
2011
Washington State University, Vancouver, Internal Research Mini Grant - Vancouver, WA
Regional Arts and Culture Council – Portland, OR
2009
Joan Mitchell Foundation Full fellowship award - 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
1999
The Arc Art Award - ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
Jay County arts council - Studio and teaching grant, Jay, Adam\\\'s and Mercer County, IN
1997
Second year international graduate student grant - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1996
98
Student Leadership Award - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Nippon Steel USA grant - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995
Orissa travel grant of M.S.University - Baroda, India