NIKHIL RANJAN PAL: Completed his BFA (Painting) from the Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan, in 1983. A lecturer at the College of Fine Arts, CKP, Bangalore, he is a recipient of the West Bengal State Academy Award, All India Fine Arts Exhibition Award, and Cultural Scholorship by the Ministry of Human Recourse Development , Government of India. Besides solo exhibitions at Apparao Gallery, Mumbai and Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi, he has participated in group shows at Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Japan, Seoul, London and New York.