KALPANA SHAH
Born in Mumbai, Kalpana is a self-taught artist, collector and curator. Being a passionate connoisseur with a keen eye for contemporary art, she had already amassed a considerable private collection when she set up the prestigious Tao Art Gallery in the heart of Mumbai in the year 2000. The gallery showcases Indian Contemporary Art and has played host to the solo shows of Indian Masters along with promoting the more young, upcoming artists. Kalpana has also personally curated numerous shows of renowned artists in India as well as internationally in New York, London, Tokyo and Singapore. In January 2007 she went on to start the Tao Art Foundation, an organisation that actively donates funds to the cause of art, culture and humanity.
Kalpana in her pursuit for creativity has been painting for the past several years with the year 2008 marking her breakthrough as an artist with the creation of her own signature style of knife-work acrylic art on canvas. Since then, she has had multiple solo and group shows in London, Singapore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata. She exhibited her works in India Art Summit, New Delhi and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th edition of India Art Festival, Mumbai. M.F. Hussain was one of the first to recognise and appreciate her style and was also one of her first buyers. Now over a decade as a recognised artist she has expanded into newer mediums, exploring large-scale installation art with metallic plates covered in intricate beadwork in a variety of colours and textures.
