Avantika Bawa

Education

2008

Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1996

98

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

Solo Exhibitions

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

Group Exhibitions

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

Awards

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