Inlaks Fine Arts Award 2016

1. The applicant for this award should be a young emerging artist under the age of 30 (by 31st December in the year of application).
2. The applicant may be a recent graduate/post-graduate or a final year student from a leading Indian institute for visual arts in India. No student of a first year masters programme will be considered.
3. The recipient should not be holding a similar/ government scholarship or award during the same tenure.
4. If the candidate has applied for the award earlier, he/she must submit a new body of work if they reapply.
5. In the case of an applicant not having a formal degree in the visual arts, it is desirable that he/she would have participated in organized art exhibitions.
6. The applicant for this award must be an Indian Citizen, currently resident in India.

Application can be done by post only.

[Note: All written material should be clearly legible and preferably type-written.]

• An application on plain paper may be sent with details of name, educational qualifications, contact address, permanent address, email id, mobile phone number, landline number and evidence of date of birth.
• A brief essay giving details of present occupation and achievements to date (Not more than 300 words).
• Your special need for the award and what do you propose to do with the award money. Also, if you have a project in mind, which will be supported by the award, give details regarding the project. (Not more than 500 words).
• Please include details of all gallery shows you have been part of or are scheduled to be part of.
• Maximum 10 samples of your work on a CD / DVD only. For Video artists, you must send 5 copies of the DVD with the application. You can also send a hard copy of your works in case the disc does not open properly.The images must only be in jpeg format, not tiff format.
• The application will be disqualified if more than 10 images are submitted with the application.
• The disc must contain your CV with (date of birth, complete contact address, email id, and phone number), essay and need for the award and a comprehensive list of works.

The applications may be sent to the following address:

Inlaks India Foundation
86/87 Atlanta,
Nariman Point,
Mumbai 400 021.