Jagannath Panda is an Indian artist, painter and sculptor from

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, India. He has exhibited his paintings many cities across India.

Life

Jagannath Panda was born in Kotilingi, a small town near

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, India in 1970. His father was a temple priest. After completing his Bachelor in Fine Arts at the BK College of Art and Crafts, Bhubaneswar, he moved to

Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, formerly Baroda College, is a public university in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Originally established as a college in 1881, it became a public university on April 30, 1949 and was renamed after ...

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to complete his master's in sculpture. On receiving Japan Foundation scholarship, he joined the

Fukuoka University of Education (UTEF) is a national university in Munakata, Fukuoka, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1876, and it was chartered as a university in 1949. The present name was adopted in 1966. Campus and Location Located in Munakata, a city ...

, Japan as a research fellow, studying there during 1997–1998. In 2002, he graduated MA in Sculpture from the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public university, public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City, London, White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design uni ...

, London. He lives in New Delhi, India.

Style

Panda's work, writes Sundhya Walther, "combines influences from Odissi artistic traditions with images and contexts from his adopted home, Delhi. His pieces are concerned with the daily experiences of modern life in India, but he imbues these representations with a utopian sensibility, expressed through a deliberate beauty that eschews much of the darkness usually associated with contemporary representations of urban life in India, in visual art and in literature."

Selected exhibitions

* Za Moca Foundation Gallery, Tokyo (1998) * Galley Chemould, Mumbai (2000) * Nature Morte at Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, New Delhi (2000) * Hockney Gallery, RCA London (2002) * Nature Morte, New Delhi (2005) * Berkeley Square Gallery, London (2006)

Awards

Panda received the

Lalit Kala Akademi The Lalit Kala Akademi or National Academy of Art (LKA) is India's national academy of fine arts. It is an autonomous organisation, established in New Delhi in 1954 by Government of India to promote and propagate understanding of Indian art, in ...

Award in 1990 and the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society Award in 1996.

References

{{Authority control People from Gurgaon 21st-century Indian sculptors Indian modern sculptors Living people 1970 births Alumni of the Royal College of Art Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda alumni