Ratan Parimoo is an Indian art historian from Kashmir, who has worked as an art educator, pedagogue, artist and former director of the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum, Ahmedabad. Ratan Parimoo was one of the founder members of Baroda Group. He publishes on the arts of Ajanta, Ellora, Jain, Rajasthani, Pahari and Mughal paintings and drawings. He authored Art of Three Tagores- From Revival to Modernity.

Books

Books Authored

Books Edited

Felicitations Published in His Honour

Published Articles (in English)

Journals

Art Exhibitions

Artists’ Camp

Participated in Artists’ Camps:

Awards

Collections

Hermitage, Lenningrad; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Punjab University, Chandigarh; Air India, Bombay; Shyamal Builders, Baroda; Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi Sahitya Kala Parishad, Madhavan Nair Foundation, Cochin, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai; Welcome Hotel, Vadodara. & Private Collections.

Major Lecture Series

1980 – Radhakamal Mukherji Memorial Lecture, U.P. State Lalit Kala Akademi, Lucknow. 1983 – UGC National Lectures at Chandigarh, Santiniketan & Madurai. 1989 – Hindi Sahitya Parishad, Ahmedabad. 1990 – Somashekhar Memorial Lecture, Dept. of Archaeology, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. 1999 – Abanindranath Memorial Lecture, Calcutta. 2005 – Raja Ravi Varma Death Centenary Lecture, Cochin.

Foreign Travels

1960-61 – Commonwealth Fellowship to study in London University. 1967 – One month's traveling in USSR under Indo-Soviet Cultural Programme. 1974 – JDR Rockefeller IIIrd Fund, New York, USA. 1978 – Invited to participate in the world Congress of International Society for Education Through Art, Adelaide, Australia. 1993 – Travelled to London, Paris, Berlin.

Membership(s) of Societies/ Associates being held

1981-1984 – Member, Executive Board, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi. 1982 – Member, UGC Panel Art History / Museology. 1982-1988 – Executive Secretary, Indian Association of Art Historians. 1985 – Member, UGC Pay Scale Revision committee. 1987 – Member, Central Advisory Board of Museums, Govt. of India. 1993-1995 – Member, History of Science Panel, Indian National Science Akademi, New Delhi. 1994-1997 – Member, UGC Panel for Art History / Fine Arts. 1998-2000 – Art Purchase Committee, NGMA, Delhi. 2003-2005 – Programme Advisory Committee, NGMA, Mumbai. 2003- 2005 – Board of Studies, Jawahar Nehru University, New Delhi. Board of Studies, National Council of Educational Research and Teaching, New Delhi. 2011 – Authentication Committee appointed by Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi, to access the exhibition of 20 fake paintings of Rabindranath Tagore held at College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata. 2012-2014 – Member, Board of Studies, School of Art and Aesthetics, JNU. 2014-2016 – Member, Acquisition Committee, NGMA, New Delhi. 2015-2020 – Chief Advisor, Textbooks in Fine Arts for class XI and Class XII, National Council of Educational Research and Training.