Akash Bhatt

1991–92  Loughborough College of Art – Foundation Studies
1993–96  University of Westminster
1996–98  Central St. Martins School of Art – Postgraduate Diploma

Awards
2015
1st Prize- The Sunday Times Watercolour Artist of the Year Competition

2010
London Lives 1st Prize Network Rail/Cass Arts/Bankside Gallery, London
Penguin Prize, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition

2008
Elected Member of the Royal Society of British Artists

2007
Purchase Prize Discerning Eye Mall Galleries
Winsor & Newton Painting Award RBA Mall Galleries

2005
Regional Award – Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries

2004
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Purchase Prize

2002
The Villiers David Prize

2002
Third Prize, Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition

1999
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award
BP Portrait Award Finalist, Commended

1997
BP Travel Award

Selected Exhibitions
2020
London Art Fair Islington, Beaux Arts Bath -stand G20

2019
‘Where Light Chases Shadow’ Landscape Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
London Art Fair, Islington London with Beaux Arts Bath

2018
‘Artists of Fame and Promise’ Summer Show, Beaux Arts Bath
‘The Sunday Times Watercolour Artist of the Year’ (Shortlisted) – Mall Galleries, London
London Art Fair, Islington London with Beaux Arts Bath

2017
Solo Exhibition ‘Madhu’ – New Paintings, Beaux Arts Bath
‘Artists of Fame and Promise’ Summer Show, Beaux Arts Bath
London Art Fair, Islington London – Beaux Arts Bath
AAF Battersea, London- Beaux Arts Bath

2016
‘Artists of Fame and Promise’ Summer Show, Beaux Arts Bath
London Art Fair, Islington London – Beaux Arts Bath
LAPADA Fair, Mayfair London – Beaux Arts Bath
AAF Battersea, London- Beaux Arts Bath
RBA Mall Galleries, London

2015
Solo Exhibition ‘New Paintings’, Beaux Arts Bath
20/21 British Art Fair, RCA Kensington London- Beaux Arts Bath
London Art Fair, Islington, London- Beaux Arts Bath

2013
Solo Exhibition ‘New Paintings’, Beaux Arts Bath

2012–15
Sunday Times Watercolour Prize, Mall Galleries, London

2011
Solo Exhibition ‘New Paintings’, Beaux Arts Bath
RI Mall Galleries, London
RBA Mall Galleries, London

2010
Solo Exhibition ‘Street Life Drawing’, Beaux Arts Bath
Lynn Painter Stainers, Livery Hall, London
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London
RBA Mall Galleries, London

2009
Solo Exhibition ‘Just Walk’, Beaux Arts Bath
RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour, Bankside Gallery, London
Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
RBA Mall Galleries, London

2008
Lynn Painters & Stainers, Livery Hall, London
RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour, Bankside Gallery, London
Crossing Over, Beaux Arts Bath
RBA Mall Galleries, London

2007
Solo Exhibition – New Paintings, Beaux Arts Bath
The Discerning Eye, Mall. Galleries, London
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London

2006
Solo Exhibition ‘New Paintings’, Beaux Arts Bath
Solo Exhibition ‘Made in Cuba’, Rebecca Hossack Gallery
The Discerning Eye, Mall. Galleries, London
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London

2005
Beaux Arts Bath, Summer Show
RBA Mall Galleries, London
Royal Watercolour Society. Annual Exhibition, Bankside, London
The Discerning Eye, Mall. Galleries, London
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London

2004
The Discerning Eye, Mall. Galleries, London
21st Century Watercolour, Bankside Gallery, London
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour, Mall Galleries

2003
Solo Exhibition PNG: The Big Payback, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London
The Garrick/Milne Prize, Christie’s, London
The Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London

2002
New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour, Mall Galleries
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London

2001
Solo Exhibition ‘Indi-gestion’, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2000
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London

1999
Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
Map, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
Contemporary Figurative Art, Beatrice Royal Art Gallery Eastleigh, Hampshire

1998
Solo Exhibition Out of Fiji, BP Travel Award (Touring Exhibition) National Portrait Gallery, London/Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
Contemporary Figurative Art, Beatrice Royal Art Gallery Eastleigh, Hampshire

1997
Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London

1996
Mercury Music Prize Art, London
Singer Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

1995
Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London