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Born in 1940
Exhibitions
- 2008
- "Gateway Bombay", a group show, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
- 2007
- "Eklavya/Daphne", Bronze & Terracotta Sculptures, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2006
- Gieve Patel & Sudhir Patwardhan, Bose Pacia, New York
- 2004
- Gieve Patel -- Paintings, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi
- 2003
- Gieve Patel -- Paintings, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
Crossing Generations: Diverge 40 years of Gallery Chemould -- curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani
- 2000
- Gieve Patel -- Paintings 1997-2000, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
- 1996
- "Looking into a Well", Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
'Contemporary Indian Painting from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection', Part II, Sotheby's Auction, New York
- 1995
- 'Contemporary Indian paintings from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection' Part I, Sotheby's Auction, New York
Indian Contemporary Paintings', Christie's Auction, London
- 1989
- 'The Times of India Auction of Timeless Art' by Sotheby's, Mumbai
- 1987
- 'Coups de Coeur', at Halle de I'lle, Geneva
- 1985-86
- 'Contemporary Indian Art', Grey Art Gallery and Study Centre, New York University
'Contemporary Art of India: The Herwitz Collection', Worcester, Massachusetts
- 1985
- 'Thirty Indian Artists in the Collection of Richardson Hindustan' –Jehangir Art Gallery
- 1982
- 'India: Myth and Reality -- Aspects of Modern Indian Art', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
'Contemporary Indian Art', Royal Academy of Art, London
- 1981
- Inaugural Exhibition: Roopankar Museum of Fine Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
- 1979-80
- Art Heritage, New Delh
- 1979
- Focus: 4 Painters 4 Directions, Gallery Chemould (Artists included: Bhupen Khakhar, Tyeb Mehta, Akbar Padamsee, Gieve Patel; curated by Geeta Kapur
- 1978
- 'Six who Declined to show at the Trienalle', Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
'New Contemporaries', curated by Gulammohamed Sheikh for 'Marg', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1977
- 'Pictorial Space' (curator: Geeta Kapur), Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
- 1976
- Menton Biennale, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France
- 1975
- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
- 1973
- Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
- 1972
- Group Travelling Exhibition to Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Belgium, Italy
Pun dole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1967
- Sridharani Gallery, New Delhi
- 1966
- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Fellowships and Awards
- 2003
- C. R. Parekh Writer in Residence, Nirman Foundation Grant, University of Pennsylvania
- 1992
- Rockefeller Fellowship, University of Chicago
- 1984
- Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, the Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Gieve Patel has published three books of verse. He has written three plays which have been performed in Mumbai.