Name - Sudarsan Pattnaik
Date of Birth - 15/04/1977
Native Place - Puri, Odisha, India
Profession - Indian Sand Artist
International Performances -
- Exhibited during the world travel market, Early Court, London, United Kingdom (1998)
- Exhibited during the world cup cricket 99, United Kingdom (1999)
- World sand sculpturing championship, France (2000)
- International sand sculpturing championship, China (2000)
- Participated in Sentosa Sandstation, "Splendors of Golden Asia", Singapore (2001)
- International sand sculpturing festival, Denmark (2001)
- 3rd prize in World's master sand sculpturing championship, Italy (2001)
- Singles International sand sculpturing competition, Scheveningen, Netherlands (2002)
- Champions medal in 29th International snow statue contest 2002, Sapporo Japan (2002)
- Sand sculpture festival, Blankenberge, Belgium (2002)
- The Dutch sand sculpture festival thorn 2002-03, Holland, Netherlands
- The first China Ningxia sand lake International sand sculpture event, China (2002)
- The 3rd Luilang colour sand festival demonstration prize, China (2003)
- 2nd prize in International sand sculpture championship, Valadoli, Spain (2003)
- 3rd prize in Berlin International sand sculpture championship, Germany (2003)
- 4th prize, China International sand sculpture competition (2003)
- Sand sculpture demonstration, Muscat festival, Oman (2004)
- Participated at sand World festival, Travemunda, Germany (2004)
- Public Prize at 2nd Berlin sand station competition, Germany (2004)
- Participated at sand sculpturing contest, Melbourne, Australia (2004)
- Participated in Houston International festival, Houston Texas, USA (2005)
- 1st prize at 3rd Berlin International sand sculpture competition, Germany (2005)
- Representing India on Tournament of World championship of sand sculpture, Canada (2006)
- Demonstrating on 15th Asian Game Doha, Qatar (2006)
- Represented India at 34th Sapporo snow sculpture festival, Japan (2007)
- Demonstrating sand sculpture at International student conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2007)
- Representing India in 1st International sand sculpture festival, Malaysia (2007)
- Representing India in 1st International sand sculpture festival, Turkey (2007)
- 5th public prize at Berlin International sand sculpture festival (2007)
- RUHR 1st Audience prize at representing India in 1st International sand sculpture festival (2007)
- Represented India in Tottori sand museum, Japan (2008)
- Won people choice prize at 1st International sand sculpture festival, Moscow, Russia (2008)
- Won 1st prize at USF World championship, Berlin (2008)
- Participated in World sand art festival, Japan (2009)
- Won special prize at World sand sculpture championship by Russia Govt, Moscow (2009)
- Korea sand sculptor award at 4th Haeundae sand festival at Busan, South Korea (2009)
- People choice prize at 2nd USF World Championship, Berlin, Germany (2009)
- People choice prize at 2nd Moscow World sand sculpture championship, Russia (2010)
- 1st place in People choice at 8th International Berlin Sand Sculpture championship, Berlin (2010)
- People's Choice prize at CNE International sand sculpture championship, Canada (2010)
- Won 3 medals in North American solo sand sculpture championship, USA (2010)
- Gold medal for People's choice at 3rd Moscow World sand sculpture championship, Russia (2011)
- Won 1st prize at COpenhagen International sand sculpture championship, Denmark (2011)
- Won double gold medals at solo International sand art contest, Spain (2012)
- Won Public prize at Copenhagen International sand sculpture championship, Denmark (2012)
- Won Moscow Museum prize at Moscow World sand art championship, Russia (2013)
- Won the Danish grand prize at 2nd Copenhagen International sand sculptor Championship, Denmark (2013)
- Exhibited sand sculpture at Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France (2014)
- Won the People's choice prize for his work "Save Tree, Save the Future" at the world cup of sand sculpturing, Atlantic City, USA (2014)
Awards & Achievements -
- Padma Shri by Government of India (2014)
- Doctorate in LLD by Berhampur University, Odisha (2012)
- Godavari Award, Nasik, Maharashtra (2012)
- Felicitated and awarded by the Honorable President of India Smt. Pratibha Devi Patil.
- Young Indian Leadership award (2010)
- People of the year 2009 award
- Sarala award by the Odisha Govt (2008)
- 5 times Limca Book of Word Records.
- National Tourism award 2005-06 by the ministry of Tourism, Govt of India.
- Excellency award 2006.
- National Youth award 2004-05.
- Bharat Jyoti award 2001 at Kolkata, West Bengal.
- 'Award of excellence' by State Bank of India, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Website - http://www.sandindia.com/home.html
