Rajny Krishnan - A Profile

SCULPTOR   PAINTER 

Personal

Date of Birth       : 28 MAY 1966.
Place of Birth       : Pune, India

Address for Communication :

KRUTHI, PLOT 9, SECOND STREET,
SRI DEVI NAGAR, ALAPAKKAM,
CHENNAI 600116.

TELEPHONE: +91 44 2476 6568.

Email :

Academics :

1997 to 1999 - Master's degree in Fine Arts from Stella Maris College, Madras. Gold medallist and rank holder.

July 2000 - Qualified in Eligibility for Lectureship through National Educational Test by University Grants Commission, India.

1986 to 1989 - Diploma course in Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at Kalakshetra College of Fine Arts, Chennai, under the tutelage of Painter K.Sreenivasulu and Sculptor Kalasagaram Rajagopal .

1986 to 1987 - Apprentice to Sculptor Kalasagaram Rajagopal.

Professional Experience

Assisted Sculptor Kalasagaram Rajagopal in over a dozen commissioned Portrait Sculptures (From 1987 to 1995)

Received and accomplished several Commissions for Sculptures (Portraits and thematic) and Murals in Bronze, Fibreglass reinforced Resin, Plaster and Terracotta.

Lectured in the Fine Arts Department of Stella Maris College intermittently from October 1999 to March 2004.

Founded Krishna Nupur Cultural Trust in Madras, a registered non-profit foundation to encourage art, art therapy, craft and culture among children and challenged people (since May 1995).

Participated in several Group and Solo exhibitions. Designed and executed Landscaping of gardens for private residences (since 1995).

Exhibition History

Solo Shows

  • 1994    February          Neil Rossner Bungalow, Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu.
    Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings

  • 2000    January            Ramana Nagar, Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu.
    Paintings and Bronze Sculpture.

  •  2000   April                  Vinyasa Art Gallery, Madras.
    Bronze and Terracotta Sculpture and Drawings

  • 2002    September       Manasthala, Madras.
    Terracotta Sculpture

Group Shows

  • 1987    April                 Kalakshetra Students’ Show, Alliance Francaise de Madras.
    Painting and Sculpture

  • 1997    February          Amarantos’97, Values Art Foundation, Madras.
    Sculpture

  • 1997    August              50 Years of Independence show, Lalit Kala Academy, Madras.
    Sculpture

  • 1998    August              Annual Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Madras.
    Sculpture

  • 1999    August              Annual Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Madras.
    Sculpture
       
  • 2000    March               Kavithai Ovia Kankatchi, Centenary Museum hall.
    Painting 
  • 2000    April                  Affordable Art show, Vinyasa Art Gallery, Madras.
    Painting,     Sculpture

  • 2000    June                  Affordable Art show, Lakshana Art Gallery, Hyderabad.
    Drawing, Sculpture

  • 2000    August              Annual Art exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Madras.
    Sculpture

  • 2001    August              Lalit Kala Mela, Lalit Kala Academy, Madras,
    Sculpture     

  • 2002    Jan-Feb            Preview show to Lyon’s SLBA, The Russian Cultural Centre,  Madras,
    Sculpture

  • 2002    June                  Charity Show, Amethyst, Madras.
    Painting

  • 2002    April                  Le Salon De Printemps, La Societe Lyonnaise des Beaux Arts, Lyon, France,
    Sculpture

  • 2004    August              Charity Show, Amethyst, Madras.
    Painting

Commissions for Sculpture

  • 1995    August       
    One and half times Life size Bronze Statue of a seated meditating young woman for a Health Farm, Bangalore.

  • 1999     December   
    Life size Bronze Bust of Dr. Prof. Sc. Dieter Beck of Germany,for Anna University, Madras.

  • 2000     November   
    Life size Fibreglass Resin Bust of Miss. Kira Plaetz, Germany.

  • 2001     June           
    Bas relief Terracotta Mural for Reception Hall,The Hindu Welfare Centre, Madras.

  • 2002     December   
    Life size Bust of (Late) Swami Omkarananda, Rishikesh. 

  • 2003     April            
    Life size Bronze Bust of Dr. Prof.C.R.Rao, Eminent Statistician, Retired from Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.

  • 2004     December   
    Life size bronze Bust of (Late) Mr. Mammen Mappillai, Founder, Ex-Chairman, MRF Limited, Madras.