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'''Avinash Chandra''' (28 August 1931 – 15 September 1991) was an Indian painter, who lived and worked in the United Kingdom.<ref name="WHBA">{{Cite episode |title=Whoever Heard of a Black Artist? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bcy4kd |access-date=4 August 2018 |network= BBC |date=30 July 2018 }}</ref>

He was born on 28 August 1931 in [[Shimla]], India,<ref name="LeDelarge">{{cite web |title=Chandra, Avinash |url=https://www.ledelarge.fr/1263_artiste_CHANDRA_Avinash |publisher=Le Delarge |access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref> and was brought up there and in [[Delhi]]. His father was the manager of the Cecil hotel in Delhi. He attended, and later taught at, [[Delhi Polytechnic]].<ref name="DiasporaArtists">{{cite web |title=Diaspora-artists: View details |url=http://new.diaspora-artists.net/display_item.php?id=38&table=artists |publisher=Diaspora Artists |access-date=4 August 2018 |language=en-UK}}</ref> His students include [[Paramjit Singh (artist)|Paramjit Singh]], [[Arpita Singh]] and [[Gopi Gajwani]].<ref>[http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/voices/avinash-chandra-the-disappearing-artist Avinash Chandra: The Disappearing Artist, Somak Ghoshal, Open Magazine, 22 April 2016 ]</ref> His 1955 "Snow in Pahalgam" sold for INR 4,375,000.

He moved, with his wife, to [[Golders Green]], London, in 1956.<ref name="DiasporaArtists" /><ref name="Tate">{{cite web |title=Avinash Chandra 1931-1991 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/avinash-chandra-886 |publisher=[[Tate]] |access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref>

In 1962 he was featured in a BBC ''[[Monitor (UK TV series)|Monitor]]'' documentary, presented by [[W.G. Archer]],<ref name="Tate" /><ref name="TNA">{{cite web |title= Correspondence about the making of the BBC Monitor film on Avinash Chandra |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/6e2c5723-12a6-4615-b001-819a567ba4fd |publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]] |access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref> and in 2018 in the BBC documentary ''Whoever Heard of a Black Artist?''.<ref name="WHBA" />

He died in London on 15 September 1991.<ref name="LeDelarge" />

== Awards and recognition ==

Chandra won first prize at the First National Art Exhibition of Art, in [[New Delhi]], in 1954.<ref name="Tate" /> and the gold medal {{lang|fr|[[Prix Européen]]}} in 1962.<ref name="Tate" />

A solo exhibition was held at the [[Hamilton Galleries]] in London in 1965.<ref name="DiasporaArtists" /> His work was also exhibited as part of ''[[The Other Story (exhibition)|The Other Story: Afro-Asian artists in post-war Britain]]'' at the [[Hayward Gallery]] in 1989;<ref name="DiasporaArtists" /> and is in collections including those of the [[Arts Council of Great Britain]], [[Ashmolean Museum]], [[Kettle's Yard]], [[Durham University]], [[Leicestershire County Council]], {{lang|fr|[[Musée National d'Art Moderne]]}}, Museum of Modern Art (Berlin), Museum of Modern Art (Haifa), [[National Gallery of Modern Art]], the [[National Trust for England]], [[New York University]], [[Punjab Museum]], [[Tate]], and the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].<ref name="Tate" /><ref name="Christies">{{cite web |title=Avinash Chandra |url=http://artist.christies.com/Avinash-Chandra-15527-bio.aspx |publisher=[[Christie's]] |access-date=4 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="ArtUK">{{cite web |title=Avinash Chandra (1931–1991) |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/chandra-avinash-19311991 |publisher=Art UK |language=en}}</ref>

== Solo exhibitions==
1987 ''Avinash Chandra'', Horizon Gallery, London.<ref name="Keen 1996">{{Cite book|title=Recordings : a select bibliography of contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British art|last=Keen|first=Melanie|date=1996|publisher=Institute of International Visual Arts and Chelsea College of Art and Design|others=Ward, Elizabeth|isbn=1-899846-06-9|location=London|oclc=36076932}}</ref>

== Group exhibitions ==
1987 ''The Other Story,'' Hayward Gallery, London.<ref name="DiasporaArtists" />

== Reviews, articles, texts, etc.==
<ref name="Keen 1996"/>

- Rasheed Araeen, 'Conversation with Avinash Chandra', Third Text, no.3/4, (Spring - Summer 1988), 69–95.

- 'Avinash Chandra', Third Text, no.16/17, (Autumn - Winter), 3–4.

- James Burr, 'Obituary', Apollo, no.135, (January 1992), 54.

== References ==
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=== Further reading ===

* {{cite journal |title=Avinash Chandra: painter from India |journal=[[The Studio (magazine)|The Studio]] |last1=Archer |first1=W.G. |author-link=W.G. Archer |date=January 1961 |volume=161 |issue=813 |pages=4–7}}
* {{Cite book |title = Avinash Chandra |last1=Archer |first1=W.G. |author-link=W.G. Archer |publisher=Hamilton Galleries |year=1965}}
* {{Cite journal| doi = 10.1080/09528828808576190| issn = 0952-8822| volume = 2| issue = 3–4| pages = 69–95| last = Araeen| first = Rasheed| title = Conversation with Avinash Chandra| journal = Third Text |date = 1988-03-01}}

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[[Category:1931 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century Indian painters]]
[[Category:People from Shimla]]
[[Category:20th-century British painters]]
[[Category:People from Golders Green]]
[[Category:Delhi Technological University alumni]]
[[Category:Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom]]

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