Born in Junagadh, Gujarat, in 1942, Vrindavan Solanki completed his Diploma in Painting and Post Diploma in Graphics at M.S. University, Baroda, in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He was a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (1982-87) and member of the Lalit Kala Academy (1987-90). Solanki portrays the men and women of Gujarat…
Born in 1969 in Kalikapur village of Orissa, Sudhanshu Sutar graduated in Fine Arts from Utkal University, Orissa, 1993. He has held various exhibitions including “Fact beyond Fact” at Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi 1999 and also has shown at the Sizoka Art Gallery in Japan in 1996. Sudhanshu Sutar evokes imagery replete with nostalgia that…
Sohan Qadri, born in 1932, received his MFA from Government College of Art in Shimla. Qadri has had over a hundred solo and group exhibitions in India and abroad, including the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Austria, and Poland. His works have been included in collections of the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; the…
Paresh Maity, born in Tamluk, a suburban town near the Bay of Bengal, has made a mark in the Indian art scene in a short career span. His solo shows include exhibitions at Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai, Gallerie Ganesha in New Delhi and Gallery Katayun in Kolkata. He received the National Scholarship from the…
Born in 1932 in Bawal, Haryana, Om Prakash Sharma is a modernist painter. He completed his Masters in Fine Arts from Columbia University in 1966. Sharma is known for his abstract paintings having experimented with the Neo-Tantric art movement of the 1960s. Sharma has participated in several solo exhibitions across India. He received a national award…
Born 1964 in Patna, Neeraj Goswami received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Fine Arts from the Delhi School of Art. He has participated in several prestigious art camps, groups shows and solo exhibitions in India, and also in Paris, London and New York. He was awarded the Bharat Bhavan Award at the Second Biennial of…
Born in 1971, in France, Maya Burman, is an architect by training but turned to painting as she found the former too restrictive. The daughter of famous Indian painter, Sakti Burman, Maya works mainly in pen and ink and watercolour. Her paintings are delicate and marked by a distinct element of fantasy. She received the…
Born in 1934 in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, Jyoti Bhatt studied painting and printmaking at M. S. University in Baroda and then went on to study further at the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Academia di Belle Arti in Naples, Italy, and the Pratt Institute in New York. His work is in numerous international collections, including the Museum…
Born in Karnataka (India) Gurudas Shenoy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda. He has had several solo shoes and participated in numerous art exhibitions in India and abroad. Gurudas Shenoy is a leading muralist in the country and has over a 100 murals to his credit. A member of the South Kanara…
Born in Bengal in 1917, Bimal Dasgupta joined Calcutta’s College of Arts and Crafts but has to give up his studied midway on account of the war. After the war, he worked at Dhoomimal Art Gallery in New Delhi before going on to teach at the College of Art, New Delhi, for fourteen years. A scholarship…