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Born in Keerambur Village in Tiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu in 1938. K. M. Adimoolam graduated with a Diploma in Advanced Painting from the Govt. College of Arts and Craft, Chennai in 1966. He held his first one-man show of his Drawings in 1966 in his home town, Chennai. In 1969, to mark the birth centenary of Mahatma Gandhi he did a show titled ‘100 drawings on Mahatma Gandhi’. His series of black and white drawings of Mahatma Gandhi captured the essence of the Mahatma. Since that time there was no looking back. Adimoolam exhibited regularly. In the earlier part of his career he exhibited both his oil paintings on canvas as well as his drawings at Sarla Art Centre in Chennai and at Kritika and Kala Yatra in Bangalore. Later he regularly held his solo shows at Crimson in Bangalore, Sakshi and Values Art Foundation in Chennai and Dhoomimal in New Delhi. Wanting to show his work to a wider audience, Adimoolam regularly exhibited at the public Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai and at the British Council in Chennai. The winner of many awards, notably the National Award in 1979, he has a number of individual and group shows to his credit. Between 1964 and 1985, he was invited to participate in the National Exhibitions of Art, New Delhi. The Lalit Kala Academi acquired his work from those early shows. He has participated in the 6th Trinnale in 1986 in New Delhi; 19th Sao Paulo International Biennale in 1987; Rimbaud ’91’ in France, and has shown in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. Adimoolam served as the Indian Commissioner for the III Ankara Biennale in Turkey and was a Single Jury for the National Exhibition. Adimoolam passed way in Chennai in 2008.