V. Anamika

She is a recipient of The 55th National exhibition of art Lalit Kala Akademi Award (2014)., Audi Ritz icon Award,Chennai.(2011),Charles Wallace India Trust Award (2010–11). She earned a Visiting scholarship to the UK to learn Enameling art at University of the West of England. She has also received a Visiting Artist Award for printmaking residency(1997) at Edinburgh printmakers studio. Apart from these international accolades she has received many National and State recognitions like 6th All India Fine Arts Exhibition (1995), Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath - Karnataka, Lalit Kala Akademi Scholarship for Young Artist(2001)., All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society Collaborating with Lalit Kala Akademi (1997)., Regional Art Exhibition Chitra Kala Samsed (1996), Machilapatnam, Andhra Pradesh., Arrikamedu Art Academy 4th South Zone Level Art Exhibition Committee, Pondicherry(1996) and the Ovia Nunkalai Kuzhu Award (1995, 1997, 1998).

She started her teaching career as a lecturer of Art for five years for Teacher trainees at the Church Park Teachers Training Institute, Chennai, in 2000-2005. She has been invited as a Visiting faculty at College of Fine Arts, Chennai and Kumbakonam, to teach the Arts Management Course, Dakshinchitra, Chennai.

V. Anamika is a Contemporary Artist born in Neelankarai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, a student of Shri. S. Dhanapal, an eminent artist of India. She received her master's degree in Fine Arts (Painting and Print Making) in 1999 from Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai. To enhance her technical skill she undertook a course on Care of museum objects at Government Museum in 2005. In 2006, she went to Scotland as a visiting artist scholar to learn Japanese wood-block printing at Edinburgh printmaker’s studio.