Education:

1950-1954: B.A Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Art, MSU

Teaching period- 1957-86: Professor at Santiniketan and BHU,

1972-1982 HoD at Faculty of Fine Art, Dean Faculty of Fine Art, MSU

HISTORY:

Like many other artists of his period, Mahendra Pandya studied every technical and linguistic aspect of sculpture, but unlike the majority of his peers, he did not always adhere to the predetermined technical or aesthetic order. His painting is unrelated to the tradition, despite the fact that he recalls studying under inspirational veterans like Sankho Choudhuri and N.S. Bendre and Pradosh Das Gupta. In hindsight, his art shows a persistent search for a better system than the one we currently have, a search that was not merely aesthetic but also social and ethical. Because he never tries to change the present, it is not the skepticism of a nihilist or the rebelliousness of a nonconformist. He is an advocate of having multiple orders coexist.

He participated in National and International exhibitions such as 1971 1st Triennale, 1978 3rd Trienalle, Venice Biennale and Paris Biennale. Received Bombay Art Society prize, Tamrapatra HAS certificate, British council scholarship to tour England.