Added Sep 25, 2008
BIO- DATA:
Shefalee Jain
BIRTH: 26.03.1979
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:
M.V.A, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. Baroda, India. 2007
B.V.A, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. Baroda, India 2005
B.A. English Literature, Lady Sriram College, Delhi Univ., New Delhi, India. 2001
SCHOLARSHIPS:
Ila Desai scholarship, B.F.A, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. Baroda, India.
Merit scholarships for the years 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04 Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. Baroda, India.
Bodhi Art Award 2007
EXHIBITIONS AND CAMPS:
• To Japan. From Baroda, a group show, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, India. July 2011
• Portraiture ,a group show, kottayam public library art gallery, kerela, jan. 2011
• Fly Vadodara Fly, a group show at Red Earth Gallery, Vadodara, India. Jan. 2011
• Boxes and bookends, a group show, Strand Art Room, Bombay,Delhi, India . November 2010, Jan. 2011.
• Cutting Chai, a group show, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda, India. Oct. 2009.
• Multitudes, a group show, Artflute in collaboration with Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, India. June 2009.
• Foundering Edges, a show of two artists, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. Baroda, India. April 2009.
• Multitudes, a group show, Zen Art Studio, Durbar Hall, Cochin, India. March 2009
• Discursive Palette, a group show, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, India. Jan. 2009
• Artists camp at Surat, India. April 2008
• Kharaghoda Artists Camp, Gujarat, India. Dec.2007
• After Images, a group show, Faculty of Fine Arts,Baroda, India.Sept. 2007
• Bodhi Art Award show, Bodhi Art Gallery, Bombay, India. June 2007
• A group show, Tangerine Art Space, CKP , Bangalore, India. 2007
• Parivritti, a group show, Kalahita Arts Foundation, Hyderabad, India. September 2006
• Con-Figure, a group show, Hues Art Gallery, Chennai, India. June 2006.
• Sprouts, a group show, Kaleidoscope Art Gallery, Baroda, India. Feb. 2006
OTHER PROJECTS:
Illustrations for Mother, a poem by Kancha Iliah, as part of a project titled Different Tales (conducted by Anveshi, Hyderabad), which involved collecting and illustrating stories dealing with lives of minority groups and written by Dalits and other minorities and introducing them into school syllabi and libraries.
Illustrations for Aditi series (children’s books) and Ten, a counting book for children with Tulika Publishers, Chennai, India.
ON GOING PROJECT: designing and illustrating for a children’s magazine Chakmak published by Eklavya , Bhopal, India called 'Chitron ki Bhasha' or 'The language of Art'. This is a project I envisioned for a children’s magazine 'Chakmak' published by Eklavya , Bhopal, India.I design the double spread of the magazine where I introduce a different work of art(painting/sculpture/photography/installation)every month to the children.I do this by designing reading material and interactive exercises around the image of the chosen work. my effort has been to acquaint children with art not merely at the level of a hobby but as a language and as a history. There is very little going on in India in terms of art education at the school level and as a result a lot of people(outside the field of art) are either uninterested in art or if they are interested, they don't have the necessary tools or education to even know where to begin to enter these works. As a result there is a huge gap between the artist's community and the public here. It has been my effort through this children's magazine to try and bridge this gap to whatever extent I can and to make the viewing of art a more interesting and engaged activity.