About This Exhibition ART PILGRIM, in collaboration with the Society of Contemporary Artists – Kolkata, brings together a collection of paintings and sculptures which is nothing short of cultural poetry. Formed in 1960, SCA, Kolkata counts among its members stalwarts such as Shyamal Dutta Ray, Somnath Hore, Sunil Das, Suhas Roy, Ganesh Haloi, Ganesh Pyne,…
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 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 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…
Born in Bengal, in 1924, ARUP DAS, graduated from the Government College of Arts and Crafts Calcutta, in the 1940s. In the 1960s, he became a member of All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi. Das was a figurative painter and muralist. had several shows in India and abroad. He won the national…
T. Vaikuntam was born in Andhra Pradesh in 1942. He completed a Diploma in Painting at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad in 1970, followed by another Painting and Printmaking degree from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, in 1972. It was only, however, later that he developed his own distinct style under the guidance…
Tutu Patnaik breathes life into stone that can only be called magnificent. A random rock may just be another piece to many but not Tutu Patnaik. Having completed his Bachelors of Fine Art from Banaras University, Patnaik did his Masters from Delhi College of Art. He has been a part of large symposiums in many countries…