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Introduction

Zodiac sign
Capricorn
Place of Birth
Kanjari, Gujarat, India
State Country of Birth
Gujarat, India

Exhibitions

  1. 1978

    1. National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

  2. 1979

    1. Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Chennai, India

  3. 1980

    1. Trade Fair, New Delhi, India
    2. Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India
    3. Drawing Exhibition, Chandigarh Museum, Chandigarh, India

  4. 1981

    1. Dhruva Mistry Art Heritage, New Delhi, India

  5. 1982

    2. Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
    3. Fifth Triennale, New Delhi, India
    4. Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar Museum, Bhopal, India
    5. Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy, London, UK

  6. 1983

    1. Dhruva Mistry Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India
    2. Peter Moore's Project 7, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
    3. Portland Clifftop Sculpture Park, Portland, USA

  7. 1984

    1. Festival Sculpture lnternational Garden Festival, Liverpool, UK
    2. From the Figure, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
    3. Home and Abroad, British Council and Arts Council Collections, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

  8. 1985

    1. Sculpture and Drawings Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge, UK
    2. A Journey Through Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
    3. Proud and Prejudiced, Twinning Gallery, New York, USA
    4. Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK

  9. 1986

    1. Artsite Gallery, Bath, UK
    2. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
    3. Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK
    4. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
    5. 14th Biennale Internazionale del Bronzettoe Piccola Scultura, Padua, Italy
    6. Living Art, Ideal Home Exhibition, London, UK
    7. Sculpture at Stoke, National Garden Festival, Stoke on Trent, UK

  10. 1987

    1. Dhruva Mistry Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
    2. Works for Shelves: A System of Support, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge, UK
    3. The Self Portrait, A Contemporary View, Artsite Gallery, Bath, UK

  11. 1988

    1. Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
    2. Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
    3. Gujarati Indian Artists, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
    4. Art in the Garden, Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
    5. Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK
    6. Art 20'90 International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
    7. Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
    8. A Personal Choice, Curated by Jeffery Camp, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK

  12. 1989

    1. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
    2. Contemporary Art Fair, Bath International Festival, Bath, England, UK
    3. Images of Paradise, Terrace Gallery, Harwood House, Yorkshire, UK

  13. 1990

    1. Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
    2. Menagerie, Glasgow print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
    3. Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Japan
    4. Fragments, Frith Street Gallery London, UK

  14. 1991

    1. Coming to Hand, Kibble Palace, Glasgow, Scotland
    2. Recent Acquisitions: Laing Art Gallery, Mayor Gallery, London, UK
    3. Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy London, UK

  15. 1992

    1. Drawing from the Imagination, Morley Gallery, London, UK
    2. Summer Exhibition, Royal academy London, UK
    3. Millfield British 20th Century Sculpture Exhibition, Somerset

  16. 1993

    1. Chelsea Harbour Sculpture '93, London, UK
    2. Contemporary Art Society Market, Smiths Galleries, London, UK
    3. Recent British Sculpture, Arts Council Collection, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, England

  17. 1994

    1. Modern Art Gallery, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
    2. The Atrium Gallery, London, UK
    3. Figure and Fantasy, The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK
    4. Gwyl Geff Harlech Art Biennale, Gwynedd, Wales, UK

  18. 1995

    2. Friends Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
    3. The Peter Greenham Memorial Appeal Exhibition, Christie's, London, UK
    4. Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
    5. ART'95 The London Contemporary Art Fair, Business Design Center, London, UK
    6. Indian Winter, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London, UK

  19. 1996

    1. Recent Sculpture Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, UK
    2. Unmasked, 1996, Meghraj Gallery, London, UK
    3. Mask'96, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
    4. Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
    5. Academical Heads, Royal Academy London, UK

  20. 1997

    1. New Generation of Asian Art, Yonago City Museum of Art, Japan
    2. Sculpture at Goodwood, Goodwood, UK
    3. Major Trends in Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

  21. 1998

    1. Dhruva Mistry: folio of recent prints, Nazar Gallery , Vadodara, India

      11 Dec 1998 to 29 Dec 1998

  22. 1999

    2. Sculpture at Goodwood, Goodwood, UK
    3. Drawing and Models, Hertogenbosch, Noorbrabants Museum, The Netherlands

  23. 2000

    1. Thoughts about Things: leaves from Ire Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland
    2. Embarkations, The Millennium Show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
    3. Bronze, an Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, Holland Park, London, UK

  24. 2001

    1. 26 Feb 2001 to 24 Mar 2001

    2. RCA, Secret, Royal College of Art, London, UK
    3. 10th Triennale-India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

  25. 2002

    1. Thinking Big: 21st Century British Sculpture, Peggey Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
    2. Metamorphing, Curated by Marina Warner and Sarah Bakewell, Science Museum, London, UK

  26. 2003

    1. Affordable Art Show 2003, The Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad, India

  27. 2004

    1. Indian Artists for France, Embassy of France, New Delhi, India
    2. Subtlety-Minimally, curated by Marta Jakimovitz, Sakshi Gallery, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

  28. 2005

    2. Modern Indian Paintings, Grosvenor Gallery, London, U.K.
    3. Osian's Re-visulising India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

  29. 2006

    1. The Art Mill at Berkley Square Gallery, London, U.K.
    2. Nirmiti, a constructed object, Akar Prakar, Kolkata, India
    3. The Human Figure, Curated by Marta Jakimowicz, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi, India

  30. 2007

    1. 29 Nov 2007 to 12 Dec 2007

    2. 03 Dec 2007 to 06 Dec 2007

    3. Steel, Stainless Still, New York (2004-2006 Coimbatore Palace), Bodhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
    4. Table Pieces 2003-2004 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
    5. Faces of Indian Art, Art Alive Gallery at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
    6. 20th Century Sculpture, Grossvenor Gallery, London, UK

  31. 2008

    1. Artist in Focus, Contemporary Works: India 2008, Harmony Show, Harmony Art Foundation, Mumbai, India
    2. Indian Art, at the Swarovaski, Crystal World, Sculpture Park, Wattens, Austria Faces of Indian Art, Book Release, ITC Grand central, Mumbai & Art Books, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
    3. Shifting Terrains, Altered Realities, The Arts House, Singapore

      10 May 2008 to 12 May 2008

    4. Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

  32. 2009

    1. 20th Century Sculpture 2009, Grossvenor Gallery, London, UK

  33. 2010

    1. Recent Work L&P Hatheesing Visual Art Centre, Ahmedabad, India
    2. Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Art Fair, London, UK
    3. At the Edge: British Art 1950 - 2000, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK

      16 Jan 2010 to 16 Mar 2010

  34. 2011

    2. The Intuitive: Logic Revisted, from the Osian's Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland

  35. 2012

    1. Sculptors' Drawings & Works on Paper, Pangolin London, Islington, London, UK

      31 Aug 2012 to 12 Oct 2012

  36. 2013

    1. Modern Masters, Grosvenor Gallery, St. James's, London, UK

      18 May 2013 to 05 Jun 2013

  37. 2014

    1. Indian Divine: Gods & Goddesses in 19th and 20th Century Modern Art, DAG, New Delhi, India

      18 Mar 2014 to 31 May 2014

  38. 2015

    1. Group Show, Sakshi Gallery, Colaba, Mumbai, India

      05 Nov 2015 to 02 Dec 2015

  39. 2016

    1. Dhruva Mistry: The Human Abstract, Grosvenor Gallery, St. James's, London, UK

      01 Apr 2016 to 07 May 2016

    2. Dhruva Mistry, Jhaveri Contemporary, Colaba, Mumbai, India

      01 Apr 2016 to 07 May 2016

  40. 2019

    1. Dhruva Mistry: New Work 1999 - 2019, Akara Contemporary, Colaba, Mumbai , India

      05 Dec 2019 to 31 Dec 2019

  41. 2020

    1. Midnight's Family, Ben Uri Gallery & Museum, St. John's Wood, London, UK

      07 Aug 2020 to 30 Oct 2020

  42. 2021

    1. The Idolized Muses, Akara Contemporary, Colaba, Mumbai, India

      25 Jun 2021 to 31 Jul 2021

  43. 2022

    1. The First Contemporaries, Akara Contemporary, Colaba, Mumbai, India

      28 Jul 2022 to 20 Aug 2022

  44. 2023

    1. Dhruva Mistry: At The Turn Of Form, Akara Contemporary, Colaba, Mumbai, India

      23 Sep 2023 to 23 Oct 2023

    2. Love of Print: International, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK

      03 Feb 2023 to 01 Apr 2023

    3. Let me tell you a story... Part I, Akara Contemporary, Colaba, Mumbai, India

      02 May 2023 to 10 Jun 2023

    4. South Asian Modern Art, Grosvenor Gallery,  St. James's, London, UK

      09 Jun 2023 to 30 Jun 2023

    5. The Patience of Ordinary Things, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India

      29 Aug 2023 to 07 Oct 2023

    6. Dhruva Mistry: At The Turn Of Form, Akara Contemporary, Mumbai, India

      23 Sep 2023 to 23 Oct 2023

    7. Grosvenor Gallery, St. James's, London, UK

      05 Dec 2023 to 22 Dec 2023

  45. 2024

    1. Love of Print: International, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK

      03 Feb 2024 to 01 Apr 2024

    2. Longing Belonging, Akara Modern, Mumbai, India

      12 Sep 2024 to 19 Oct 2024

    3. Moulding Outlines: A Sculptural Survey, Akar Prakar, New Delhi, India

      08 Oct 2024 to 25 Oct 2024

Alkazi, Ebrahim (Editor). Art Heritage, 1981-1982 | Journal
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Chronicled Highlights

9 entries
Dhruva Mistry
Born
Dhruva Mistry
Dhruva Mistry — Kanjari, Gujarat, India.
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Elephant Study, Konark. Black conte on paper, 1975 | Drawing | FineArts | 00600795
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Elephant Study, Konark. Black conte on paper, 1975 | Drawing | FineArts | 00600795
In 2004, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Elephant Study, Konark (1975), offered in the The Masterpieces & Museum Quality Series: Indian Contemporary Art – Books, Paintings & Sculpture by Osian's, which concluded on 15 October 2004 at New Delhi, achieving a sale price of ₹8,62,864 ($18,815). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Elephant. Bronze, Edition 3/5, 1987 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00333191
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Elephant. Bronze, Edition 3/5, 1987 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00333191
In 2015, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Elephant (1987), offered in the The Fine Art Sale: Including Works from the Collection of Roshan Sabavala and Emanuel Schlesinger by Pundole, which concluded on 03 November 2015 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹12,00,000 ($16,643.37). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Woman (Study for River). Bronze; Edition 5/5, 1988-1989 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00335533
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Woman (Study for River). Bronze; Edition 5/5, 1988-1989 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00335533
In 2018, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Woman (Study for River) (1989), offered in the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art by Sotheby's, which concluded on 23 October 2018 at London, achieving a sale price of ₹15,52,798 ($21,045.81). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Tree Spirit II. Bronze, 1989-1990 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00600794
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Tree Spirit II. Bronze, 1989-1990 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00600794
In 2004, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Tree Spirit II (1990), offered in the The Masterpieces & Museum Quality Series: Indian Contemporary Art – Books, Paintings & Sculpture by Osian's, which concluded on 15 October 2004 at New Delhi, achieving a sale price of ₹6,90,291 ($15,052). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Moving Mountain 2. Bronze, Edition 3/5, 1988-1990 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00598856
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Moving Mountain 2. Bronze, Edition 3/5, 1988-1990 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00598856
In 2005, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Moving Mountain 2 (1990), offered in the Indian And Southeast Asian Art: Including Modern And Contemporary Indian Art by Christie's, which concluded on 21 September 2005 at New York, achieving a sale price of ₹9,48,672 ($21,600). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Victoria Square Guardians - II, 1991-93. Bronze; Edition 1/3, c.1991-1993 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00604803
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Victoria Square Guardians - II, 1991-93. Bronze; Edition 1/3, c.1991-1993 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00604803
In 2024, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Victoria Square Guardians - II, 1991-93 (1993), offered in the Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art by Sotheby's, which concluded on 26 September 2024 at London, achieving a sale price of ₹87,12,467.4 ($104,090.49). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Christie's (Auction House). Indian Contemporary Art. 04 June 1997, London | Auction Catalogue | EconomicsArt | 00861851
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Christie's (Auction House). Indian Contemporary Art. 04 June 1997, London | Auction Catalogue | EconomicsArt | 00861851
On 04 June 1997, made their debut in the Indian public auction market when Dialogue-1 was presented as Lot in Indian Contemporary Art, conducted by Christie's in London, UK. This auction marked the artist's first recorded appearance in the public auction market, establishing the earliest chapter of their auction history.
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Spatial Diagram B; Spatial Diagram Female B. Metal on board, 2005-2006 | Painting | 00880988
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Spatial Diagram B; Spatial Diagram Female B. Metal on board, 2005-2006 | Painting | 00880988
In 2006, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Spatial Diagram B; Spatial Diagram Female B (2006), offered in the Contemporary: Autumn Online Auction by Saffronart, which concluded on 07 September 2006 at Online, achieving a sale price of ₹11,36,025 ($24,643). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Reclining Figure. Epoxy paint on stainless steel, 2006 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00362243
Mistry, Dhruva (Artist). Reclining Figure. Epoxy paint on stainless steel, 2006 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00362243
In 2024, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Reclining Figure (2006), offered in the The Sculpture Sale by Pundole, which concluded on 15 February 2024 at Online, achieving a sale price of ₹20,00,000 ($24,092.93). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.

Economics of Art

Public Auction Market (1987–2026) | Select Indicators

  1. Annual Auction Sale Turnover
  2. Average Sale Price Per Lot
  3. Square Inch Rate Trend
Currency

Annual Auction Sale Turnover

This indicator tracks the Total Annual Auction Sales value of Dhruva Mistry’s artworks, beginning in 1987 through to the present.
It aggregates all sales across global auction houses into yearly totals.

Analysis reflected in the chart:
The turnover graph highlights periods of strong growth, moments of market correction, and resilience during downturns. Peaks often align with landmark works coming to public auction, while troughs may indicate reduced supply or weaker demand. Over time, the curve illustrates the overall trajectory of Dhruva Mistry’s public auction market presence.

Average Sale Price Per Lot

This measure calculates the Average Sale Price of all lots by Dhruva Mistry sold each year.
It smooths out fluctuations caused by the quantity of works offered and focuses on the Average Sale Price level per artwork.

Analysis reflected in the chart:
Rising average sale prices indicate growing collector confidence and a stronger willingness to pay higher amounts per work. Assuming the mix of mediums remains relatively stable over time, the proportion of works on paper typically priced lower than works on canvas adds important context to understanding these market movements.

Square Inch Rate Trend

The Square Inch Rate normalizes prices by the size of each artwork, showing the average sale value per square inch over time.
This allows fair comparisons between smaller works and larger canvases.

Analysis reflected in the chart:
The Square Inch Rate shown in the graph combines various medium types such as canvas, paper, board, and others. Historically, works on canvas and board have broadly commanded higher prices compared to works on paper.

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