Dhruva Mistry studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, The M S University of Baroda, India from 1974 to 1981, and gained a British Council Scholarship to the Royal College of Art, London where he studied from 1981 to 1983.
His oeuvre ranges from small-scale domestic pieces to monumental public commissions. Drawing inspiration from ancient and modern civilizations, he uses a variety of materials and genres to explore cultural tensions.
His first solo exhibition was held at Art Heritage, New Delhi, touring to the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 1982. He was Artist in Residence at Kettle’s Yard, with a Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge (1984-5) and since then he has shown regularly throughout the UK and abroad. He was Sculptor in Residence at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (1988), represented Britain at the Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, Japan (1990) and was selected for the solo show Asian Artists Today — Fukuoka Annual VII, by the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan (1994). In 1992 he was commissioned by Birmingham City Council to design sculptures for Victoria Square, Birmingham, for which he received several awards, and in 1998 he was selected for the Millennium Medal Competition, London. His work has also been included in group shows in India and abroad since 1976.
Dhruva Mistry was elected Royal Academician in 1991, Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London in 1993 and was awarded an Honorary CBE in 2001. He returned to India in 1997 to take up his appointment as Professor, Head of Sculpture and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University of Baroda.
Born: 1957 in Kanjari, India
Nationality: Indian
Elected ARA: 29 May 1991
Elected RA: 26 June 1991
Gender: Male
Preferred media: Sculpture
2011 Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2010 Hatheesing Centre, Ahmedabad
2008 Dhruva Mistry, Artist in Focus, Contemporary Works: India 2008
Harmony Art Foundation, Mumbai
2007 Coimbatore Palace, Bodhi Art, New Delhi
Art Pilgrim, New Delhi
2003-2004 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Lalit Kala Gallery, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2001 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Dhruva Mistry, Work 1997-2001, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai and tour
Queen’s Gallery, The British Council, New Delhi
Arts Council, London
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
Contemporary Art Society, London
Department of Fine Arts, Punjab university, Chandigarh
Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Roopankar Museum of Fine Art, Bhopal
Royal College of Art, London
Tate Gallery, London
The British Council, London
The British Museum, London
The British Library, London
The Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
West Zone Culture Centre, Udaipur
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton
2001 Shortlisted for Monument to Motherhood, sponsored by Shacolas Group, Cyprus
1993 Quaglino’s, London
International Classical Music Awards, London
1992 Victoria Square, The City Council, Birmingham
1990 Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
1989 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow
British Art Medal Society, London
1987 Nitchiman Corporation, Japan
1985 Churchill College, Cambridge