A graduate of the University of Ceylon, Chandra Malalgoda Bandaranayake
has won several awards for painting and sculpture at the Ceylon
Society of Arts annual exhibitions during the 1960s. She has exhibited
her paintings at the bienniels of Sao Paulo and New Delhi and
has held four solo exhibitions of painting and sculpture. Her
first solo exhibition was in 1966 at the British Council Library
in Kandy while she was following a post graduate course in Education
at the Peradeniya University. In 1967, she held an exhibition
at the Ceylon German Friendship Association, Queens Hotel. Her
third solo exhibition was at the British Council Gallery, Colombo
in 1989. During this period her work was also exhibited at the
Alliance Francaise Gallery in Colombo and Laksala Gallery and
Sales Centre. The Alliance Francaise de Ceylan Gallery was the
venue for another exhibition of her work in 1993. At present,
her work is available at the Sapumal Foundation gallery at Barnes
Place, Colombo and at her home in Nugegoda.
