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Natvar Bhavsar    (Indian, 1934)

 Natvar Bhavsar - Arnat (Prints) h: 24.5 x w: 26 in / h: 62.2 x w: 66 cm
Natvar Bhavsar
Arnat
 
 Natvar Bhavsar - Composition #2 (Prints) h: 31 x w: 33 in / h: 78.7 x w: 83.8 cm
Natvar Bhavsar
Composition #2 1967
 
 Natvar Bhavsar - Malawa 1 (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 45 x w: 41.5 in / h: 114.3 x w: 105.4 cm
Natvar Bhavsar
Malawa 1
 
 Natvar Bhavsar - Orange Drawing (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 34.5 x w: 45.5 in / h: 87.6 x w: 115.6 cm
Natvar Bhavsar
Orange Drawing
 
  

Biography
1958 Mumbai State Higher Art Examination, Mumbai, India
1959 Mumbai State Higher Art Examination, Mumbai, India
1960 B.A. Gujarat University, Amdavad, India
1957 - 1962 Seth C.N. School of Fine Arts, Amdavad, Gujarat India - Art Instructor 1954-57
Chanasma High School, Chanasma, Gujarat, India - Art Teacher
1965 M.F.A., Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
1967 - 1969 University of Rhode Island, Kingston - Art Instructor
1975 - 1976 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York 1965-66 John D. Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship, New York
Invited as Participant in Executive's Seminars at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies at Aspen, Colorado
1987 Vishva Gurjari, Gujarat, India
Invited as Participant as Cultural Leader to the World Economic Forums in Davos, Switzerland and New York

Exhibitions
2007 Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Inner Journey (group)
2006 Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Poetics of Color (solo)
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Next Level (group)
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY East/West (group)
2005 Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Small Scale Paintings (solo)
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Galleria Pardo, Milan, Italy (solo)
Time and Material, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York City
2003 - 2004 ACP Viviane Ehrli Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2003 Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York (solo)
Continuous Connection, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York City
Seeing Red, Hunter College TimesSquare Gallery, New York City
Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York City
2002 Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York (solo)
India: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections, Jane Voorhees
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, State Univ. of NJ
Compass Points, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York City
2001 Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York (solo)
The Inner World, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York City
Asian American Art Center, New York City
Art Cologne, International Art Fair, ACP Vivian Ehrli Galerie, Zurich, Cologne, Germany
2000 art-garage, Zug, Switzerland (solo)
Celebration Colors: Three Decades of Painting, Dialectica Gallery, New York (solo)
World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting 2000, Davos, Switzerland (solo)
1998 - 1999 Art Cologne, International Art Fair, ACP Viviane Ehrli Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1998 3 immerzeit 3, ACP Viviane Ehrli Galerie, Zurich; Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt, Germany
1997 ACP Viviane Ehrli Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland - Paintings (solo)
Abstraction INDEX, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York New York
1996 Bose-Pacia Modern Gallery, New York, N. Y. - Pastels and paintings on paper (solo)
1995 La Raccolta D'Arte Contemporanea, Le Nuove Donazioni, Museo Civico, Taverna, Italy
1992 Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor, Fl. Paintings
1991 Nel Piu'Ampio Cerchio, Angolazioni E Prospettive Della Visione Nell' Arte Contemporanea, Centro Museografico, Taverna, Italy
Il Sud Del Mondo, L'Altra Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Civica D'Arte, Pizzo, Italy

Literature
2004 India in New York, January
Brooklyn Rail, 'Natvar Bhavsar, Sundaram Tagore Gallery', February
2003 India Abroad, “Profile:Natvar Bhavsar”, January
Neue Zuger Zeitung, “Zug: artgarage, Ein Langer Prozess”, Switzerland, November
Art in America, “Mutability and Metaphor”, December
News India-Times, “Bhavsar, Known for Grand Paintings will show smaller ones”, December
2002 Magazine of the Corproate World, "Indian at He(art)", June
India Today, "The Global Indian, Society and Trends, Contemporary Art, Rosy Picture", July
News India-Times, “The Sound of Color Exhibition by Bhavsar in N.Y.”, November
2001 "Bhavsar's Color Fest Opens at New Gallery", India Abroad, May
India Abroad, "Soho, So Good", October
Indian Express, "Art Like Music Penetrates the Heart", August
The Pioneer, "Bhavsar's Cosmic Color Field', August
2000 Art Deal, "Natvar Bhavsar's Encounter with Expressive Color", Jan/Feb
Catalogue essay for ACP Vivian Ehrli Gal. Exhibition, "Encounters with Colors", March
Natvar Bhavsar - Kosmos der Farben, " Kunst-Szenen", Neue Zurcher March
Handelszeitung, April
Neue Luzeitung, "Farbe als Aussage und Erlebnis", August
Natvar Bhavsar TheSound of Color, Robert C. Morgan, Mapin Publishing, Amdavad, India
1999 Indian Express, “A View of the World, The United Colours of Natvar Bhavsar", April
1998 Natvar Bhavsar Painting and the Reality of Color, Irving Sandler, publ.Craftsman House, G+B Arts Internat. Sydney 1998
1997 The New India Digest, March-April
"Renaissance Man" March
Malayala Manorama, August
Times of India, "In touch with his Gujarat origins through painting”, August
Deccan Herald, "Colour at Work," Bangalore, August
India Abroad, "Two European Shows for N.Y. Based Artist," October
Schweizer Illustrierte, “Kunst nebenan, Bad Ragaz/Zurich", November
Sarganserlander, "Ein Meister der reinen Farbe", November
Tages-Anzeiger zuritip, "Extreme Stille", November
1996 India Today, "Beyond the Contours of Color", January
Art in Review, June
The Hindu, "Fireworks in a Dark Sky", June
1995 The Earth Times/Art, "BHAVSAR", June30/July14
1994 Indian Artists Find Niche in New York, February
Little India, “Freedom from Past”, March
Asian Art News, “Natvar Bhavsar”, Jan/Feb
Asian Art News, “Reflections of Two Cultures”, May/June
India Abroad, "SoHo's Bhavsar Famed for Pigment", June
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