K S R A D H A K R ISH N A N

Radhakrishnan with parents, 1983

1956

Born on 7th February, the third of four

children of P.N. Sreeman Unni and K.

Savithrikutty in Kuzhimattom, Kottayam,

Kerala, India.

1970

Took to painting inspired of uncle P.N.

Narayanan Kutty and worked till 1973.

Completed SSLC and leaves NSS High

School, Chigavanam, Kottayam.

1971-73

Studied pre-degree course at St. Berchmans

College, Changanacherry, Kottayam.

1973-74

Studied degree course at NSS College,

Changanacherry.

Joined Kala Bhavan Vishwabharati

University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.

1978

Awarded National Scholarship offered from

Government of India.

1979

Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) from

Vishwabharati University, Santiniketan, West

Bengal.

Participated in an exhibition titled ‘Transition’

featuring young artists at Academy of Fine

Arts, Kolkata, India.

P N Narayanan Kutty, 2000

Radhakrishnan with Sarbari Roychoudhury,Hirabai Barodekar (seated), Yunus Hussain Khanand others, Santiniketan, 1979

With students of Kalabhavan, sculptureworkshop, Kashmir, 1978

With Ramkinkar Baij, 1979

With friends at Kalo’s Tea stall, Santiniketan, 1978 With one of the sculptures at Kalabhavan, Santiniketan, 1979 Mimi, 1978 With portrait of Ramkinkar Baij, 2004

Apu, 1979 Study of a nude, 1978

Buddhist Monk, 1979 Nairji, 1978Musui, 1977

Radhakrishnan with R. Siva Kumar, Santiniketan, 1978

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1980

Invited to participate in Miniature Sculpture

Show in connection with the Silver Jubilee

Exhibition organised by Lalit Kala Akademi,

New Delhi.

Participated in National Exhibition organised

by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.

Awarded for the Best Sculpture from Annual

Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art and

Culture, Kolkata, India.

1981

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) from

Vishwabharati University, Santiniketan, West

Bengal, India.

Awarded the research grant from Lalit Kala

Akademi, New Delhi to work at Garhi

Studios, New Delhi.

1982

Participated in National Exhibition, Lalit Kala

Akademi, New Delhi.

1983

Married to Suchismitha Chakravarty (Mimi).

Solo exhibition at Jahangir Art Gallery,

Mimbai.

1984-85

Worked on a sculpture for Orthodox Centre,

New Delhi.

Worked at Lalit Kala Studios at Garhi, New

Delhi.

1986

Attended a sculpture workshop in Banaras

Hindu University, Varanasi.

Installed sculpture at Tel Bhawan, Dehradun.

Executed two open air sculptures at Bikner,

Rajasthan.

Son-Trinanjan was born.

1987

Solo exhibition at Jahangir

Art Gallery, Mumbai.

Family, 1986

Radhakrishnan receiving Birla Academy Award fromwell known Bengali writer Aahpurna Devi, 1980

Performing Forms-I,1980

Married to Suchismitha (Mimi), 1983

Stage Figure 1, 1984 Stage Figure 2, 1984 Stage Figure 3, 1984 Stage Figure 4, 1984 Stage Figure 5, 1984

Stage Figure 6, 1984 Stage Figure 7, 1984 Woman on the Step,1986

Evocation, 1985 Mother and Child,1987

Woman on the Step,1983

With Sarbari Roy Choudhury,1983

Mithun, 1981 Performing Forms-II,1980

Movement andEvocations, 1978

With Siva Kumar and Sarbari Roy Choudhury,1978

Radhakrishnan, 1987Characters from famous Bengali writer Sukumar Ray’s rhymes, 1987

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1988

Installed sculpture at India House, London.

Executed monumental sculpture at

Raebareilly, Uttar Pradesh.

1989

Travel to London and Paris sponsored by

Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India.

1990

Sculpture workshop at Kanoria Centre for

Arts, Ahmedabad.

Shifted the studio to Khirkee Village, New

Delhi.

1991

Worked at Studio Obsonvile, France.

Participated in Triennale, organised Lalit

Kala Akademi, New Delhi.

1992

Worked on Method and Wisdom, Women

with the Bird at Khirkee studio.

1993

Solo exhibition at Centre des Bords de

Marne, LePerreux-Bry sur-Marne, Paris,

France.

Shifted the studio to Chattarpur Hills, New

Delhi.

At Obsonville, France, 1991 At the opening of the show in Paris, 1993

Durga, 1988

Whirlwind, 1989

Woman with a Bird,1989

Self-portrait, 1990

Woman on the Rock 2, 1993

Demon, 1992 At Khirkee studio, 1993 With ‘Woman with the Bird’, 1994

Carving ‘Woman and the Owl’, 1992

Italian ambassador and Ramu Katakam at opening of exhibition, studio, Khirkee, 1992

Hanuman, 1991 The Pull, 1991 Woman and the Bow,1992

Woman with Cactus, 1992 Worshiping Ganga, 1992

Shri. R. Venkataraman, President of India, honouring K.S. Radhakrishnan, 1990

With friends, sculpture workshop, Ahmedabad,1989

Margaret Thatcher with bust of Indira Gandhi,India House, London, 1989

On the Split Base, 1990 On the Solid Base, 1990 Falling Woman, 1990

Portal, 1989 Woman on the Rock, 1989 Chandela Rider, 1990

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1994

Solo exhibition at Khirkee Gallery, New Delhi.

Exhibition organised by Salon International,

de la Sculpture Contemporaine, at Nouveav

Forum des Halles, Paris.

Hippodrome de Longchamp, Paris.

Espace Michel Simon-Noisy le grant, France.

1995

Installed sculpture at TMI (Time Manager

Internationsl) campus, Cotignac, France.

1996

Worked on the large bronzes for TMI,

Denmark.

1997

Solo Exhibition at Hotel Park Royal, New

Delhi.

‘Porta’ - Apeejay Lawns, Kolkata, sponsored

by Apeejay Surendra Group, Kolkata.

1998

‘Song of the Road’ - sponsored by

International Travel House, ITC, New Delhi.

Travel to U.S.A. and installed sculptures in

Chicago.

1999

Participated in an international workshop on

Art & Architecture at Khajuraho, sponsored

by Orient Express, New Delhi.

Installed open air sculptures at the TMI

campus, south of France.

Method and Wisdom, 1994 At Chattarpur studio, 1994

Nehru, 1994

With son Trinanjan, London, 1995 With wife Suchismitha (Mimi), 1997

The Pull at TMI, France, 1995

Impish FigureFrance, 1997

at TMI, Impish FigureFrance, 1997

at TMI,

Woman on the Rock at TMI,France, 1995

Woman Playing Violin at TMI,France, 1994

Impish Figure 1, 1997

Impish Figures, 1997

Song of the Road, 1997 Musui as Rat Catcher,1998

Human Box 2, 1998 Portal Show, Kolkata, 1997Human Box 1, 1998

Impish Figure 2, 1997 Impish Figure 3, 1997

Detail of ‘Cosmic Wave’, 1995

Musui Maiya, 1999

Cosmic Wave, 1994

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Evening Star, 1994

2000

Participated in a group show titled

‘Contemporary Women’ at Hongkong Visual

Arts Centre, Hongkong.

Solo exhibition titled ‘Musui Maiya’ at

Shridharani Art Gallery and Vadehra Art

Gallery sponsored by Vadehra Art Gallery,

New Delhi.

2001

Participated in an artists workshop at

Cocopalms, Puri, Orissa.

2002

Travel to Thailand to attend the artists

workshop at Pataya.

Installed sculptures at TMI, France.

2003

Travel to Cairo and other cities in Egypt to

attend an artists workshop.

Installed ‘Heritage Column’ at Garden of

Five Senses, New Delhi.

Participated in an exhibition titled ‘Can’

curated by JohnyML.

Exhibition ‘Only Connect’ at India Habitat

Centre, New Delhi.

Exhibition ‘Nayika’ by Ganesha Art Gallery,

New Delhi.

Exhibition at Bayer Art Gallery, Baroda.

2004

Travel to Mauritius at attend artists

workshop.

Solo exhibition ‘The Ramp’ at Shridharani

Art Gallery organised by Art Alive Gallery,

New Delhi.

‘The Ramp’ at Bayer ABS Limited Gallery,

Vadodara.

The Ramp, 2004 The Ramp, 2004 Detail ‘The Ramp’, 2004 With President K R Narayanan, 2001

Detail of Musui Maiya, 2000

Human Box, 2000 Offering Vessel, 2002 With R Siva Kumar, 2004

Musui Maiya Series, 2000

Installing Heritage Column, 2002

In Egypt, 2003 Human Pyramid, 2003 Migrating into Stone,Bhubaneshwar, 2004

With Heritage Column, 2002 Maiya as Selkit, 2003

With Bidhan Karmakar, S P Sharma and Molay Dey at studio, 2001

With Adoor Gopalakrishnan at the opening of the show‘Musui Maiya’, New Delhi, 2000

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Musui as Tortoise, ABS Gallery, Baroda, 2005 Arts India, New York, 2006The Ramp,2004 The Ramp,2004

Opening ‘Freehold’, Museum Gallery, Mumbai, 2006 Freehold, Museum Gallery, Mumbai, 2006

Freehold, Art Alive, New Delhi, 2007Darpan, 2007 Imp on the Twig, 2008Imp and the SingleLeaf, 2008

Prof. KG Subramanyan viewing Liminal Figures - LiminalSpace, Birla Academy, Kolkata, 2008

Liminal Figures - Liminal Space, LKA, New Delhi, 2009

Maiya as Selkit, Indian Art Summit, New Delhi, 2009With Sarbari Roy Chaudhury at the site of Terrafly, Kalabhavan, Santiniketan, 2006

APJ Abdul Kalam, 2008 With the President APJ Abdul Kalam, 2007

2005

Travel to Istanbul, Turkey to attend artists

workshop.

Travel to China (Silk Route) sponsored by

Uttarayan, Baroda.

Travel to South Africa organised by Gallery

Navya, New Delhi.

‘The Ramp’ at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.

‘Unbearable Lightness of being’ at India

International Centre, New Delhi.

2006

Travel to U.S.A., sponsored by Arts India,

New York.

Travel to Russia, sponsored by Art

Resource Trust, Mumbai.

Travel to Morocco, sponsored by Popular

Prakashan, Mumbai.

‘Freehold’ at Museum Gallery, Mumbai.

2007

‘Darpan’ an exhibition sponsored by Nvya

Gallery, New Delhi.

Travel to Moscow and St. Petersburg,

Russia - sponsored by Nvya Gallery.

‘Freehold’ at Artalive Gallery, New Delhi.

2008

Travel to Greece, sponsored by Popular

Prakashan, Mumbai.

‘Impudence of Musui’ Karma Gallery,

Ahmedbad.

‘Liminal Figures, Liminal Space’ Birla

Academy, Kolkata.

2009

Installed sculpture at TMI campus, France.

Indian Art Summit, New Delhi.

‘Liminal Figures, Liminal Space’ Lalitkala

Akademi, New Delhi.

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2010

‘Liminal Figures, Liminal Space’ Jehangir Art

Gallery, Mumbai.

‘Liminal Figures, Liminal Space’

Kanakakkunnu Palace,

Thiruvananthapuram, sponsored by

Government of Kerala.

Worked on a large open-air sculpture in

Goa, sponsored by Government of Goa.

‘Freedom to March’ Lalitkala Akademi, New

Delhi.

International Sculpture Symposium at

Uttarayan Art Foundation, Baroda.

2011

Installed an open-air sculpture at Uttarayan,

Santiniketan.

Nominated to be a Member of Executive

Council (Karma Samiti), Viswabharati

University, Santiniketan.

Installed sculpture ‘Maiya is Both Arrow and

Bow’ at Uttarayan complex, Santiniketan

and unveiled by Smt. Pratibha Patil,

President of India.

Liminal Figures - Liminal Space, Kanakakkunnu Palace, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, 2010

Ascending Fugures, Focus Art Gallery, Chennai, 2012

Ramkinkar Baij - A Retrospective at National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi - Curated by KS Radhakrishnan, 2012

Ascending Fugures, Focus Art Gallery, Chennai, 2012

Ascending Fugures, Focus Art Gallery, Chennai, 2012The Ramp Revisited at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 2012

Liminal Figures - Liminal Space, Kanakakkunnu Palace, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, 2010

International Sculpture Symposium, Uttarayan Art Foundation, Baroda Maiya as WriterUttarayan Art Foundatio

Terrafly on the Portal, Goa,2010

Freedom to March, Lalitkala Akademi,New Delhi, 2010

2012

Curated

‘Ramkinkar Baij’ at National Gallery of

Modern Art, New Delhi.

‘Ascending Figures’ at Focus Art Gallery,

Chennai.

‘The Ramp Revisited’ at Visual Arts Gallery,

India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

a Retrospective Exhibition

Maiya as Both Arrow and Bow, Uttarayan, Santiniketan, 2011

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2000

� ‘Musui Maiya’ by Prof. R. Siva Kumar,

published by Vadehra Art Gallery, New

Delhi.

2004

� ‘K.S. Radhakrishnan’ by Prof. R. Siva

Kumar, published by TMI Foundation,

France.

� ‘The Ramp’ by Prof. R. Siva Kumar,

published by Art Alive, New Delhi; Tao

Gallery, Mumbai and ABS Gallery,

Baroda.

2006

� ‘Freehold’ by Dr. Geeti Sen, published by

Art Alive, New Delhi.

� ‘Freehold’ by Ranjit Hoskote, published by

Art Musings, Mumbai.

2008

� ‘Liminal Figures Liminal Space’ by Raimi

Gbadamosi and Prof. R. Siva Kumar,

published by Birla Academy of Art and

Culture, Kolkata.

2009

� ‘Liminal Figures Liminal Space’ by

Prof. R. Siva Kumar, published by Art

Musings, Mumbai.

2010

� ‘K.S. Radhakrishnan’ a book in Malayalam

language by JohnyML, published by

Kerala Tourism, Government of Kerala.

2012

�Worked on the book ‘Ramkinkar Baij’

authored by Prf. R. Siva Kumar, released

on the occasion of Retrospective

Exhibition of Ramkinkar Baij, curated by

me at NGMA, New Delhi.

�Ramkinkar’s Yaksha Yakshi by

K S Radhakrishnan.

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