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'''Kavitha Balakrishnan''' ({{lang-ml|കവിത ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ}}; born 1 June 1976) is an [[art critic]], poet,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harithakam.com/ml/Poet.asp?ID=133|title=ഹരിതകം - മലയാള കവിതാ ജാലിക|website=Harithakam.com|access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref> [[contemporary art]] researcher, painter and art [[curator]]. She started her teaching career as a lecturer of Art History at [[College of Fine Arts Trivandrum]] from 1998 to 1999. She later lectured at the R.L.V. College of Music and Fine Arts in Thrippunithura and as a visiting faculty at the [[National Institute of Fashion Technology]] (NIFT) in Mumbai. Balakrishnan is currently a lecturer<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110721161433/http://kshec.kerala.gov.in/edusearch/scripts/Inst_Results.php?txtLink=1042GTCU08]</ref> in [[Art history]] and [[Aesthetics]] at the Govt. College of Fine Arts in Thrissur. Kerala State, India.

==Academic career==
Balakrishnan received her master's degree in Fine Art History and Aesthetics in 1998 from [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]]. Then she produced a research thesis on the practice of literature-oriented illustrations in Malayalam periodicals' for which she was awarded Ph.D in 2009 by [[Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala|Mahatma Gandhi University]], Kottayam.

==Awards==
At the age of 13 she received ''[[the Soviet Land Nehru Award for Painting]]'' while she spent the summer at the Crimean coast of the Black Sea, Ukraine (former Soviet Union) at [[Artek (camp)]]'s Inter National Young Pioneer Camp.

Her book ''keralathile chitrakalayude varthamanam'' won the state award <ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/Lalithakala-Akademi-awards-announced/article14764606.ece | title=Lalithakala Akademi awards announced | date=17 May 2007 | newspaper=[[The Hindu]] | access-date=25 April 2018 }}</ref> for the best book on art in Malayalam in 2007 from Lalitha kala academy.

==Publications==
===Poems===
* Angavaalulla Pakshi (Rainbow Book Publishers Chengannur, 2004)
* Njan Hajarundu<ref>[http://books.indulekha.com/2008/01/14/njan-hajarundu/her]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }},</ref> (DC Books Kottayam, 2007).
* Kavithayude Kavithakal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indulekha.com/kavithayude-kavithakal-poetry-kavitha-balakrishnan|title=Kavithayude Kavithakal @ indulekha.com|website=Indulekha.com|access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref> (INDULEKHA, 2017).

===Art===
* ''Keralathile Chitrakalayude Varthamanam'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-bookreview/Contemporary-art/article15410760.ece|title=Contemporary art|date=22 July 2008|access-date=4 August 2018|website=Thehindu.com}}</ref> Rainbow Book Publishers, Chengannur 2007. A collection of articles on 20th-century art practices in Kerala, serialized by the periodical Madhyamam weekly in 2003<ref>[http://www.dcbookshop.net/bookview.asp] {{dead link|date=August 2018}}</ref>

*'up close n personal'<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artconcerns.com/html/upclose.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019173353/http://www.artconcerns.com/html/upclose.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 October 2008|title=Artconcerns.com|date=19 October 2008|access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref> A series of essays locating the trajectories of significant people in Contemporary art. The column appears in a major websites for Indian Contemporary art.

==Exhibitions of paintings==
===Group shows===
*‘Hide and Seek’ <ref>{{cite web|url=http://artconcerns.net/2008august/html/review4_John+Xaviers.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922184000/http://artconcerns.net/2008august/html/review4_John%20Xaviers.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 September 2010|date=22 September 2010|access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref> Gallery OED, Kochi, 2008.
*'L'Mechine' Gallery OED, Kochi, 2009.
*Trikana Matilakam Porulukal: Contemporary Art Project, Mathilakam 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpfTx9qP1U|title=Vilson Koozhoor and Kavitha Balakrishnan as guests in Morning Show|last=MediaoneTV Live|date=2 October 2015|access-date=4 August 2018|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>

===Solo shows===
1.Contemporary Art gallery, show sponsored by Kerala Lalith kala Academy.1997.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://kavithakal.podbean.com/2009/08/27/kavitha-balakrishnan/ a poem]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110713030801/http://books.indulekha.com/2008/01/14/njan-hajarundu/ njaan haajarundu]
*[http://kshec.kerala.gov.in/edusearch/scripts/Inst_Results.php?txtLink=1042GTCU08 Designation]

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