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Dhruva Mistry

Dhruva was born in 1957, Kanjari, Gujarat . Studied MA, Faculty of Fine Arts, M SU, Baroda from 1974-81, then at the Royal College of Art in London from 1981-83 on a British Council Scholarship. 1984-85 artist in residence at Kettle's Yard Gallery with a Fellowship at Churchill College in Cambridge . In 1994, solo show , Asian Artist Today- Fukuoka Annual VII , Japan . Returns to Vadodara in 1997. Dhruva was elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1991 and Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London in 1993.

Selected Awards

1979 - BA with Gold Medal and Distinction, Faculty of Fine Arts, the M.S. University of Baroda
1981 - Atul National Drawing Competition, Lalit Kala Akademi, Ahmedabad (Award) Drawing Competition Chandigarh Museum, Chandigarh (Award)
1981-83 Awarded British Council Scholarship at the Royal College of Art, London
1983 - The Madame Taussaud's Award for Art at the RCA, London
1984-85 Artist in Residence in association with the Arts Council of Britain at Kettle's Yard Gallery with Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge
1988 Sculptor in Residence, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1990 - Represented Britain at the Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, Japan (Award)
1991 - Elected Associate Member and Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Jack Goldhill Award and short listed for Korn/Ferry International Premier Award
1992 -Commissioned Sculptor of the Victoria Square by the City Council of Birmingham
The Civic Trust, Woodhouse and the Renaissance Awards for Victoria Square
1993 - Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London
1994 - Selected for a one man show, Asian Artist Today- Fukuoka Annual VII Exhibition, organized by Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Award for the Design of Humanities Prize Medal, London
1995 - Design and President's Award, Victoria Square Sculptures The Landscape Institute and Marsh Fountain of the Year Award
1998 - Selected for the Millennium Medal Competition, London
1999 - Appointed Professor, Head of Sculpture & Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
2001 - Awarded Honorary CBE (Commander of the most excellent Order of the British Empire) by the Queen Elizabeth, London
1976 - Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi, Ahmedabad (Awards in 1978 and 1982)

Award of Excellence by Gujarat Gaurav Samiti

Lives and works in Vadodara.

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