Binod Shrestha

EDUCATION

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine (Nine Weeks Residency Fellowship)

MFA Degree, Drawing / Installation
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Post-Baccalaureate Degree, Drawing / Installation
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

MFA Degree, Painting / Art History
Bangalore University, India

BA Degree, Literature
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

BFA Degree, Painting / Art History
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2007  I-Park Artist Enclave, Artist Residency, Connecticut

2007  Summer Development Grant, The University of Tulsa

2006  Fellowship, The Center for Emerging Visual Artist, Philadelphia

2005  Skowhegan Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine

2004  MFA Fellowship Nominee, Dedalus Foundation, New York

2004  Samuel T Freeman Memorial Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the          Fine Arts

2003  MFA Merit Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

1999  Shri Sharada Charan Das Memorial Scholarship, Bangalore University, India

SOLO SHOWS

2008   1078 Gallery, Chico, California

2007  Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia

2006  Binod Shrestha @ Freeman’s, Philadelphia

1998  Espresso Gallery, Bangalore, India

TWO PERSON SHOWS

2007  Cross Road, Felicity R. Bebe Benoliel Gallery, Philadelphia

2006  Simultaneous Realities
         Olin Fine Arts Center, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
         Curator Ron Sherhofer

2000  Confluence
         Nepal Art Council, Nepal
         Curator Preeti Joseph

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2007  23 Degrees, The Ice Box, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia

2007  Fever Pitch, Delaware Museum of Art, Delaware

2006  Good Things… Small Packages
         The Center for Emerging Visual Artist, Philadelphia

2006  Art Wallah (South Asian Art Festival), JACC, Los Angeles

2006  Introduction ’06, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia

2005  Faculty Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2005  MFA Thesis Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
         Curator: Richard Torchia, Director, Arcadia University Art Gallery

2004  5 into 1, Moore College of Art
         Curator Paul Hubbard, Chair, Sculpture Department, Moore College of Art
         & Lucartha Kohler, University of the Arts, Philadelphia

2003, '04, '05 
          MFA Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

1999  MFA Thesis Exhibition, Chitrakala Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore,          India

1998  Exposition, CIAS, Bangalore, India

1997 & '98  
        
National Exhibition, Kathmandu, Nepal

1996  Vision 51, Nepal Art Council, Kathmandu, Nepal

1995  Group 37, Nepal Art Council, Kathmandu, Nepal

1994  Paper Mandala, Siddhartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal

1993  Old Masters Technique,Workshop & Exhibition
         with Wolfgang Maria Woolhouser at Goethe Institute, Kathmandu,          Nepal

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

03/2007  Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia

01/2007  Delaware Online, The News Journal

08/2000  Nepali Times, Kathmandu, Nepal

08/2000  Radio Sagarmatha, Kathmandu, Nepal

09/2000  The Sunday Post, Kathmandu, Nepal

10/1998  Times of India, Bangalore, India

10/1998  Deccan Herald, Bangalore, India

1997       ENHVER BY ER FORSKELLIG. SAMTALER I KATHMANDU OM KUN
              OG PLAN, Hans Helge Madsen, ROSINANTE, Denmark

SLIDE TALKS / LECTURES

2005  Slide Talk, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

2001  Visiting Artist, Ravi Varma College of Fine art, Kerala, India

1999  Slide Lecture, Chitrakala Institute of Advance Studies, Bangalore, India

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Philadelphia Sculptors, www.philasculptors.org

College Art Association, www.collegeart.org

International Sculpture Center, www.sculpture.org

The Center for Emerging Visual Artist, www.cfeva.org

Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, www.ovac-ok.org


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