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| Yusuf Arakkal was born in 1945 in Kerala, India. He obtained a diploma in painting from the Chitrakala Parishath College of Art in Bangalore in 1973 and in 1980 specialised in graphic print making at the National Academy community studios in Garhi, Delhi. Yusuf Arakkal has had multiple solo and group shows of prints, oils and watercolours in India and abroad. |
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| Since 1975, Yusuf has had over thirty eight solo shows in India. Works exhibited include mediums like oils, watercolors, graphics, collages and sculptures – in bronze, wood, terracotta, granite, steel, paper and fiberglass. |
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| Group shows in India have included most major juried shows, state and all India level shows, National exhibitions and exhibitions organized by private galleries and other groups.His solo shows abroad include the Art Forum Gallery in Singapore in 1994; Wallace Gallery, Chelsea, New York in 1996 and the Air Gallery, Dower Street, London in 1996. Other International shows include exhibitions in Russia, Cuba, Mexico and Japan. |
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| Yusuf Arakkal was nominated to the Indian National Academy of Art as an eminent artist in 1984 and to the Karnataka Latkala Academy in 1988. In 1987 he was nominated as the Indian commissioner for the 19th Sao Paolo International Biennale. |
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| He was commissioned to create the first contemporary mural in granite in India for the large corporate complex of Brooke Bonde in Bangalore in 1986 and has done other large murals since then including an out door granite mural for the Satellite Centre of the Indian Space organization in 1992 and a steel and granite mural for the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research at Bangalore in 1995. He has received several awards, including the Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy Award for 1979 and 1981. |
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