- Member:
- Association of International Critics of Art, British Section
Society of Authors
- Reference:
- WHO’S WHO IN ART
DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS IN GREAT BRITAIN SINCE 1945
TRAVELLER’S LITERARY COMPANION TO THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT
THE MODERN LIBRARY – THE 200 BEST NOVEL IN ENGLISH SINCE 1950 by Carmen Callil and Colm Toibin , Piccador
NEW SPIRIT, NEW SCULPTURE, NEW MONEY – ART IN THE I980s by Richard Cork, Yale University Press 2003
NATIONAL LIFE STORIES, The British Library, 2006-7;
DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY 2009
Balraj Khanna
Chronology
- 1962
- MA Punjab University, Chandigarh , India Moved to England
- 1965-70
- Lived and worked in England and France
- 1971-72
- Worked as a Foreign Correspondent during India-Pakistan War leading to the liberation of Bangladesh. Painted BIRTH OF A NATION – BANGLADESH now with National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
- 1975-79
- Executed Mosaic Mural for a private swimming pool in London
- 1981
- Lectured on Indian art and personal development at Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester Universities, The Royal College, St Martin`s, the South Bank Centre, The Institute of Education, SOAS, MOMA – Oxford, the Hayward Gallery, the Serpentine Gallery, the V& A, the Bradford Museum, the Brighton Museum and other Venues
- 1981-82
- Executed Painting Mural for Elven Precision Ltd Crawley, Sussex
- 1984
- Awarded Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize by the Royal Society of Literature for first novel NATION OF FOOLS (Michael Joseph & Penguin)
- 1985
- Awarded Mahatma Gandhi Prize for Literature by the GLC for Partition, a novel set in India in1947
- 1986
- Represented India at Illkley Literature Festival
Represented India at Commonwealth Writers Conference, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh
- 1983-88
- Chairman, Indian Arts Council in the UK
- 1986
- Founded the Horizon Gallery, London
- 1985-86
- Co-author with Richard Cork and Shirley Read of Art on the South Bank, an independent report commissioned by the GLC, published in 1986
- 1986-87
- Member, Exhibitions Committee, Arts Council of Great Britain
- 1987-90
- Member, Visual Art Panel, South Bank Centre and Hayward Gallery
- 1987-92
- Commissioned by St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, to make five large paintings
- 1994-95
- Member of Projects Committee, Arts Council of England
- 1993-94
- Curated KALIGHAT PAINTINGS-1930, Popular Indian Art, an Hayward Gallery touring exhibition from the collections of the British Museum, the V&A and others, at the Leicester Museum; the City Art Centre; Edinburgh; the Bradford Museum; MOMA, Oxford and at the V&A, London
- 1997-1998
- Curated KRISHNA – THE DIVINE LOVER, an Hayward Gallery touring exhibition of 16th-19th century Indian miniature from the V&A, the British Museum the British Library and other public collections.: the Whitechapel Gallery, London, followed by shows as Huddersfield Art Gallery; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield; Brighton Museum
- 1997-99
- Mosaic Mural Commission, Museum of Modern Art Wales, the Tabernacle, Machynlleth, Wales
- 1997-98
- Painting Commission for the Conquest Hospital, Hastings
- 1999
- NATION OF FOOLS adjudged as one of the 200 Best Novels in English
- 2000-01
- 01 Curated HUMAN AND DIVINE 2000YEARS OF INDIAN SCULPTURE an Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition at the new Walsall Art Gallery; Sainsbury`s Art Centre, Norwich; Southampton City Art Gallery
- 2001
- Commissioned to paint the Safety Curtain, Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham, one of the Largest work of Public Art in the UK
- 2006
- HOW TO IMPROVE THE WORLD – 60 Years of British Art 1945-2006 Hayward Gallery, London
- 2013
- A MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE at MOMA, Wales
- 2015
- NATIONAL LIVES, The British Library
- 2016
- INDIA ARTNET
- 2017
- ARTIST & EMPIRE, Tate Britain