Prashant Panjiar

Born in March 30, 1957 - Kolkata

Education

Self-Taught Photographer
1981 Master of Arts, Political Science from Pune University

Selected solo shows

2009 'Pan India: A Shared Habitat', Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2007 ‘King, Commoner, Citizen’, Siri Fort Educational Gallery, New Delhi and Konica Minolta Gallery, Tokyo
2003 ‘The Wall’, Oxford Book Store, Mumbai
2000 ‘King and Commoners’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Piramal Gallery, Mumbai; Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata; Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore; Bal Gandharva, Pune
1984 ‘Kampuchea Lives Again’, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi; Gorky Sadan, Kolkata

Selected Group Shows

2010 'Wide Angle 2010', The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2008 ‘Click! Contemporary Photography from India’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery, London
2002 ‘India- a Celebration of Independence’, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Royal Festival Hall, London; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Knoxville Museum of Art; National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai and New Delhi; Victoria Memorial Museum, Kolkata; Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai.
2002 ‘Ways of Resisting’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
1996 ‘India 24 Hours’, Mumbai
1994-95 ‘Punjab 1994’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, Chandigarh and Mumbai
1991 ‘Rajiv Gandhi’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
1989 ‘Artist Alert’ organized by Sahmat at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
1987 ‘Das Endlose Rad- Photographie in Indien’ at Berne, Köln, Lausanne, Zurich and Munich

Joint Shows

2008 ‘Tirtha’, with Dinesh Khanna at Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi

Participations

2010 'Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh', Whitechapel Gallery, London; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich
2009-10 'The Self & the Other: Portraiture in Contemporary Indian photography', Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona; Artium - Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Honours and Awards

2005 Served on the Jury of the China International Press Photo Competition organized by Xinhua, the national news agency of China.
2004-06, 08 Served on the Jury of the Ramnath Goenka Press Photo Awards
2002 He has been on the Panel of Judges of the Annual SOPA (Society of Publishers in Asia) Awards for Editorial Excellence
2002 Served on the Jury of the World Press Photo Awards in Amsterdam