- contemporary Indian artist

Anjolie Ela Menon is one amongst India's most respected artists and intellectuals of the art world. Born in 1940, Anjolie studied English Literature at Delhi University after which she went to the JJ School of Art, Mumbai. Thereafter, in 1961, she went on to work and study in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts on a French Government scholarship.

Anjolie has lived and worked in England, the United States, Germany and the former USSR. She has had over forty solo shows in India and abroad to date. In addition to paintings in private and corporate art collections, her works have been acquired by museums in India and abroad.

Menon has also represented India at several Biennales. She has been invited by the British Council, the US State Department and the French Ministry of Culture to confer with leading artists of these countries. She has served on the Advisory Committee and the Art Purchase Committee of the National Gallery for Modern Art, New Delhi and co-curated with Henri Claude Cousseau, a major exhibition of French contemporary art.

A trustee of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Menon is considered one of the foremost Indian artists of our times in recognition of which she has been awarded the Padmashree.

A retrospective exhibition of her work was held at Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and New Delhi earlier in the year.

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