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Anju Dodiya born in Mumbai in 1964,
Anju Dodiya received her diploma from the Sir J.J. School of Art in 1986. She has held two solo shows at Gallery Chernould, Mumbai in 1991 and 1996. She has also participated in 'In Small Format' Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 1993, 'Women Artists' Hyderabad 1994, 'Recent Trends in Contemporary Indian Art' Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 1995 and 'Cinemascape An Artists' Tribute to 100 years of Cinema' Lakhereen Gallery, Mumbai, 1996.
Dodiya’s self-images are placed in inffimte, somefimes theatrical situations in an attempt to explore internal and external reality. The technical competence of her paintings is matched by the calm almost detached observations.
Over the years Anju Dodiya has come to be regarded as one of India’s leading female artists. In her works, she is poignant, strong, autobiographical, yet a sharp story teller, weaving together layers of myth and history.
For her first ever site-specific project, Throne of Frost, Dodiya draws on the fables and recorded history of the Lukshmi Villas Palace, situated in the former princely seat of Baroda, where Baroda’s royal descendents continue to live even now. The palace, an architectural marvel, is used as a source that the artist draws upon to create two-sided works of varying scale and using embroidered tapestry, each becoming almost proportionate to an act of heroism.
Also constant are her themes of beauty and violence, power and withdrawal, the maze of life and the cycle of succession, the onrush of motifs from the world and the quest for the magical image that testifies to the self that invents itself while dealing with its own stories and the stories of others. And yet, while the work can be identified as ‘classic Anju Dodiya’, the provenance of the players she portrays, makes the work exceptional.
She lives & works in Mumbai.
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