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Vanita Gupta (b.1972) completed her G.D. in fine arts from L.S.Raheja School of Art, Mumbai in 1992. She has held several solo shows in Mumbai on a regular basis since 1994, at the Jehangir Art Gallery and Pundole Art Gallery, as well as at the gallery at Red Church Street, London (2007) and the Singapore Art Fair (2006). She has participated in many group exhibitions in India and abroad, some of which are as follows: Annual Show at Gallery Art Motif (New Delhi, 2010); Raza Foundation Awardees Art Exhibition (Delhi, 2009); “Mapping Memories 2” (New Delhi, 2008); “The Eye Within” (New Delhi, 2007); at the Berkley Square Gallery (London, 2006); “Edge of Abstraction” (New Delhi (2005); “Ideas and Images” a group-show by women artists (NGMA, Mumbai, 2004); National Exhibition of Art, (Lalit Kala Akademi, Kerala,2004); “Shakti” (Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai,2002); West Zone Exhibition (Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2001); Kala Ghoda Festival (NGMA, Mumbai, 2001); “Ideas & Images” (NGMA, Mumbai, 2000); “50 years of Art in Bombay” (NGMA, Mumbai, 1997); Miniature Format Show (Mumbai, 1996-2000); Annual Show (Art Society of India, Mumbai, 1993); and “Citi Art Utsav” (Citi Bank, Mumbai, 1991), amongst others. She has also participated in fairs, festivals and auctions such as the Singapore Art Fair (2006) and the “Art for Hearts Sake” auction conducted by Bowring’s in 2003. Ms. Gupta has received Certificates of Merit for her Self-Portrait by the Bombay Art Society (1992), and for On-the-spot pictorial composition, by Camlin India (1990). In 2007 she was awarded the Raza Foundation Award for Art. Vanita Gupta lives and works in Mumbai.