Awards & Exhibitions timeline

Ira Chaudhuri studied fine arts at Santiniketan, (1949), and intermittently practiced pottery at Baroda’s Faculty of Fine Arts (1951-70). She taught for a year (1963-64) at the Pottery section at the Faculty in Baroda. In 1976, at the Garhi Studios she switched from earthenware to stoneware pottery. She was a guest potter at the Rural Reconstruction Department at Santiniketan in 1978, and taught pottery at University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in 1980-81. She held her first solo exhibition in 1979 and the latest was her retrospective exhibition in 2015. She was awarded best potter of the year in 1995 by all India fine art and craft society. She has exhibitted her pots and ceramics all over the world. She stays and work in Delhi.

Awards

1995	Best Potter of the Year, All India Fine Art and Crafts Society
2006	Honoured by Delhi Blue Pottery Trust for contributions in the field of Studio Pottery
2014	Felicited New Delhi, Municipal Committee on the occasion of their centnary.

Exhibitions

1979	1st Solo exhibition, Mumbai – Jahangir Art Gallery with Sankho
1979	Solo exhibition, New Delhi – A.I.F.A.C Gallery
1982	Triveni Kala Sangam, Group exhibition, New Delhi
1983	A.I.F.A.C – Gallery ‘The porters & their day’
1983	Solo exhibition, New Delhi – Garhi Studios – Saroj Pal Paintings
1984	Joint exhibition with P. Daroz, Vadodara – Urja Art Gallery – Fine Arts Exhibition Hall
1985	Group show sponsored by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Tito- grad, Bonn and Vienna
1986	Group exhibition, New Delhi – Garhi Gallery
1987	Solo exhibition, Kolkata – Chitrakoot Gallery – with Sankho Chaudhuri
1988	Garhi Gallery – All India Fine Arts and Crafts exhibition, London
1989	Jahangir Art Gallery exhibition of Creative Crafts, Mumbai
1984 – 1995	All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society’s All India Potters show
1990	Group exhibition, New Delhi
1991	Group exhibition, New Delhi
1991	Indian section of the British Council’s exhibition, Colours of the Earth
1992	Group exhibition, New Delhi – L.T.G. Art Gallery – Ceramics 6 Studio
1992	Solo exhibition, New Delhi – Triveni Kala Sangam Courtyard
1994	Group exhibition, Pune – Sakshi Gallery – Jyotsna – Ira – Kristine – Amrita
1994	Solo exhibition, Mumbai, Cymroza Art Gallery
1994	Solo exhibition, New Delhi – Triveni Kala Sangam
1996	Solo exhibition, New Delhi – Garhi Studios, Lalit Kala Akademi
1997	Group exhibition, New Delhi
1998	Group exhibition, Mumbai – Cymroza Art Gallery & Delhi Blueddin
1998	Solo exhibition, New Delhi, Garhi Gallery – Garhi Studio
2000	Solo exhibition, Vadodara – Nazar Gallery
2001	Group exhibition, People for Animals, New Delhi
2001	Solo exhibition, Art Heritage, New Delhi – Ira Chaudhuri : Ceramics
2003	Group Show, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi
2005	Resonance, exhibition organized by Lalit Kala Academy on the occasion of the closing ceremony of their Garden Jubilee
2006	Group Show, Ahmedabad
2007	International Biennale, Korea
2007 – 2008	Indo Korean exhibition in Chennai and New Delhi
2007 – 2008	Harmony Foundation exhibition, Mumbai
2008	Group Show, Ahmedabad – Indian Ceramics Today Lemongrasshopper Gallery, Ahmedabad ni gufa
2008	Group Show, New Delhi
2009	Solo exhibition, New Delhi – Garhi Studios Lawn
2009	‘1001 Cups’ exhibition, New Delhi, Swiss Arts Council travelling exhibition to India, China, Korea, France + Switzerland Art & Soul Gallery
2010	Group show of the Ceramic Centre, Vadodara, at Mumbai
2011	Group Show, Art Heritage
2012	Exhibition of International Ceramists, Vadodara
2012	Mati Bhopal
2014	Exhibition at Bhopal Pottery Market at Gauhar Mahal – Jyotsna & Daroz
2015	Ira Chaudhuri : Retrospective – Vadodara, Ceramic Centre + Red Earth
2015	Group show – Vivante Gallery, New Delhi
2016	Group Show of Indian and Korian ceramics, New Delhi