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G M Sheikh
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"You would never paint a religious picture in the secular and liberal atmosphere of an art school. You would never paint anything that you believed in. Someone should really work on how many themes artists deal with. They will find there are very few fit subjects for art."
Painter, art historian, and writer Gulam Mohammed Sheikh taught art history and painting for nearly three decades at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S....
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"You would never paint a religious picture in the secular and liberal atmosphere of an art school. You would never paint anything that you believed in. Someone should really work on how many themes artists deal with. They will find there are very few fit subjects for art."
Painter, art historian, and writer Gulam Mohammed Sheikh taught art history and painting for nearly three decades at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. He has edited a book on 'Contemporary Art in Baroda' that traces the evolution of Baroda as an important center of contemporary art and art education from the nineteenth century up to the last decade of the twentieth century.
The literary sensibility of Gulam Mohammed Sheikh is as fine as his artistic sensibility, for he is also a distinguished Gujarati poet. Says he, " There is a very meaningful relationship between writing and painting. Our painting tradition has been suffused with it. But now we have developed a purist's mode where we have separated the two. This is like saying that when you see you should shut your ears, while you hear you should shut
your eyes. You don't. You can't. Those who have studied perception will realize the correlation between the senses."
Sheikh paints on formats ranging from hand-held paper to architectural scale, to bring the world he knows, sees and seeks, into his life; to illumine it in its complexities and contradictions, reinventing art history while painting.
"Occasionally, I place an image upon another image to depict a journey of the spirit on the landscape of the face. There is mysticism and, at the same time, the device of reversal is used in an almost surrealist mode, quizzical and explosive," he says. The idea of a dialogue has been a very central one in his work and this idea imparts a dynamic quality to his works.
The impressions, especially of the early years of life, the tales he heard and the myths he grew up with, found expression as images in poetry first, and later, in painting.
But where his paintings are concerned, Kabir (the legendary poet / saint) has always been his source of inspiration, right from his schooldays. As the artist himself says, "Kabir has been a seminal figure from the period in which he lived up to the present day. People live with his thoughts and words ... he was not a preacher and spoke against sects. If people have made a sect out of Kabir, it is not of his making."
Over the years the theme of Kabir kept returning to him and Gulam Mohammed Sheikh created a relationship between his own images and Kabir's words. He has worked on the 'Alphabet Series' based on his relationship with Kabir.
Years ago Sheikh's paintings used to have a labyrinth like spaces. Now all his characters are not so much connected in a dreamscape as inscribed in or mapped on a body. Now he paints to stir people out of their cocoons and his obsession with Kabir remains because he thinks that we on earth need an icon, especially now that violence is so much a part of our daily lives.
It has often been said of him that he has been influenced by other artists' works. He responds to this and explains his repeated reference to Kabir saying, "If you respond to something, if you have liked it or loved it, it's because the space for that is already existent within you, which is waiting to be filled. But when I invoke an artist's painting, it is a different painting that recurs to me. It has to be inscribed by me, in my memory and my subjectivity. And that's what inspires me to create something new."
Born in 1937 in Surendranagar, Saurashtra in Gujarat, this Padma Shree recipient took his Master's degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the MS University in Baroda. Subsequently, he taught art history at the same university and between 1982-1993, he was a professor of painting.
In 1987, he was a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US, and in 2000, writer/artist-in-residence at the South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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Born
February 16, 1937
Surendranagar Saurashtra
Education
1961 Master of Fine Arts (Painting), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1966 A.R.C.A., London
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'City, Kaavad and Other Works',...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'City, Kaavad and Other Works', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2008 'Kaavad: Traveling Shrine: Home', Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
2004 ‘Mappings’, organized by The Guild, Mumbai at The Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2001 ’Palimpsest’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai; Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 ‘Kahat Kabir’, (gouaches) and ‘Tree of Life’, (mural documentation), Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1996 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1996 ‘Tree of Life’, mural at Vidhan Bhavan, Bhopal
1995 ‘A Tree in My Life’, The Village Gallery, New Delhi
1991 'Pathvipath', CMC Art Gallery, New Delhi
1988 Art Heritage, New Delhi
1985 ‘Returning Home’, a Retrospective Selection of Work from 1968 to 1985, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Modeme, Paris
1970-71 Kunika–Chemould Art Gallery, New Delhi
1969 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1963 Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai
1960 Kunika Art Gallery, New Delhi
1960 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Enter-Alt-Space, Exhibition Hall, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara
2018 Futures Present, by The Guild at Gallery White, Vadodara
2017 Designed two Stained Glass Windows for Dattaraj V. Salgaocar, Goa
2018 Hashiya, the Margin, by Anant Art Gallery at Bikaner House, New Delhi
2016 Revisiting Beauty, Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi
2016 Handle with Care, Group show of Studio Glass, Exhibition Hall, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara
2016 Chhaap, Japanese woodblock printing workshop with Katsutoshi Yuasa, Chhaap Baroda Printmaking Workshop, Portfolio
2015 'Remembering Bhupen', Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
2014 ‘Etchings-Photographs-Prints’, by Vadehra Art Gallery at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2013 ‘Touched by Bhupen’, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2013 'Still Life', Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
2011 'Pause: A Collection', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010-11 'A Collection', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Water Ways', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2010 'Earth', Gallery OED (Open Eyed Dreams), Kochi
2009 'Relative Visa', Bodhi Space, Mumbai
2008-09 'Body Chatter: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2008 'Baroda: A Tale of Two Cities', (Part I), Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
2006-07 ‘Inventing / Inverting Traditions’, Indian Art II / III, Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2005-06 'Ritu', organized by Anant Art Gallery at Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
2005 'Visions of Landscape', The Guild, Mumbai
2004 'Looking Back, Looking Forward', Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
2004 'Mappamundi', A Tapestry based on Digital Work, Asialink Building, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
2003-04 ‘A Celebration of Color’, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2003-04 ‘Contemporary Miniatures: India and Pakistan’, Fine Art Resource, Berlin
2003-04 ‘Rain’, organized by Gallerie: A Journey of Ideas at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2003-04 ‘The Making of India, SAHMAT, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2003-04 ‘Interlude in Sri Lanka’, organized by The Guild, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 'Works on Paper', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 'Tiranga: Rights and Responsibilities', Travelling Show
2002 ‘Artscope’, Art Today, New Delhi
2002 ‘Golden Jubilee Exhibition’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 ‘Cinemastill’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 ‘Photo-Transcendent’, Bose-Pacia Modern, New York
2002 ‘Words and Images’, organized by The Guild, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 ‘Glue: An Exhibition about Collage’, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2001 'Windows to Vistas', Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
2001 ‘Palette 2001’, Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2001 ‘Swayam / Against Violence on Women’, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2001 ‘The Aesthetic Experience’ (An experimental workshop in New Media for Contemporary Artists), Art Underground / Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai.
2000 Early Works, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai
2000 ‘Transpositions’, Lakeeren, Mumbai
2000 ‘A Global View: Indian Artists at Home in the World', The Fine Art Resource, at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Chhaap’, Baroda Printmaking Workshop, Portfolios 1,2 at Nazar Art Gallery, Vadodara
1999 ’The Art of Charity, organized by Sir Jamsetjee Parsee Benevolent Institution at Sir JJ School of Applied Art, Mumbai
1999 ‘Art for Spastics’, Taj Coromandel, Chennai
1999 Jehangir Nicholson Collection, Selected Works, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1999 ‘Watermarks’, organized by Fine Art Resource at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
1999 ‘Kalachakra’, A Benefit Event for the Elephanta Project (Auction) by INTACH, Mumbai
1999 'Legatee: The Baroda School of Art', The Fine Art Company, Mumbai
1998 ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery at AI Funoon Gallery, Kuwait.
1997 ‘Colors of Independence’, organized by Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi.
1997 ‘Indian Contemporary Art’, organized Vadehra Art Gallery at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi.
1997 ‘Gift for India’, organized by Sahmat at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
1997 ‘Major Trends in Indian Art’, organized by Lalit Kala Akademi at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
1997 Inaugural Exhibition, Art Indus, New Delhi
1996 ‘Water Colors: A Broader Spectrum III’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1996 ‘Tree of Life’, mural at Vidhan Bhavan, Bhopal
1996 Contemporay Indian Painters Associated with Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1995 ‘Indian Contemporary Paintings’, New Delhi, Mumbai, exhibition and subsequent auction, Christies, London
1995 ‘A Tree in My Life’, The Village Gallery, New Delhi
1993 ‘Reflections and Images’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi.
1993 ‘Still Life’, organized by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1993 'Shraddhanjali', in aid of Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1992 'Journeys Within Landscapes', organized by Sakshi Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1990 Exhibition for Gadyaparva (Gujarati journal devoted to creative prose), Mumbai
1989 'An Exhibition of Self Portraits', The Village Gallery, New Delhi
1988 ‘Contemporary Indian Miniatures and Paintings’, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
1988 ‘Art for Cry’, in aid of child welfare organizations, Mumbai
1987 Auction for Helpage India, by Christie‚s, London in Mumbai
1981 ‘Place for People (6artists)’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
1978 ‘Six Who Declined the Triennale’, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
1978 ‘Pictorial Space’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1977 ‘Indian Painting 1977’, organized by Haryana Tourism and Black Partridge Art Gallery, Chandigarh Museum, Chandigarh
1976 Exhibition, Haryana Tourism and Black Partridge Gallery, Badkhal Lake, Haryana
1975 ‘Six Painters’, Black Partridge Art Gallery, New Delhi
1974 ‘Group Show (10 artists)’, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
1974 ‘Contemporary painting of India’, Belgrade, Warsaw, Sofia, Brussels
1973-75 ‘Graphic Workshops (traveling shows)’, Baroda, New Delhi, Chandigarh, etc
1972 Group Show with Bhupen Khakhar, Nagji Patel and Krishna Chhatpar, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1971 Art Today III, Black Partridge Art Gallery, New Delhi
1971 ‘Loans from Private Collections’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1970 ‘Contemporary Indian Prints’, Smithsonian Printmaking Workshop, New Delhi
1970 ‘Graphics 70’, Group 8, New Delhi
1969-71 ‘Art Today I, III’, Black Partridge Art Gallery, New Delhi
1968 ‘Painters with a Camera’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1963 ‘Group 1890’, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
1957 ’Baroda Group Show’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Joint Exhibitions
2002 With Bhupen Khakhar, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
Participations
2017 India Art Fair, New Delhi
2016 India Art Fair, Vadehra Art Gallery booth, New Delhi
2014 India Art Fair, Vadehra Art Gallery booth, New Delhi
2014 Forms of Activism, curated by Vivan Sundaram and Sasha Altaf for SAHMAT, Lalit Kala Akademi Galleries, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2014 Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, curated by Jitish Kallat, Kochi
2013-14 ‘Re-writing the Landscape: India and China’, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheom, South Korea
2012 'The Calendar Project: Iconography in the 20th Century', part of Project CINEMA CITY: Research Art & Documentary Practices presented by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) and Ministry of Culture, Government of India at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2012 'Art for Humanity', Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai
2012 ‘To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art’, as part of Art Chennai, Edition II at Lalit Kala Regional Centre, Chennai
2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 'Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2011 ‘Manifestations VI', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 '1:3:1- Part II', W+K Exp, New Delhi
2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010 'Place.Time.Play: India-China Contemporary Art', West Heavens Exhibition Project, presented by Shanghai International Culture Association, Institute of Visual Culture (China Academy of Art) at Shanghai Art Museum Lecture Hall, Shanghai
2010 'Art Celebrates 2010: Sports and the City', represented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games
2010 'Contemporary Printmaking In India', presented by Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2009 'ARCOmadrid', Spain presented by curator Bose Krishnamachari for 'Panoroma: India'
2008-09 'Paz Mandala', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2008-09 'Modern India', organized by Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture at Valencia, Spain
2008-09 ‘Expanding Horizons: Contemporary Indian Art’, Traveling Exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai; Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati; Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur; Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad; Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalay’s, Solapur; Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur; PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune; Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2007-08 'From Every day To the Imagined: Modern Indian Art', Singapore Art Museum, Singapore and at Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
2007 ‘Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art’, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2007 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, organized by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) and Asia Society India Centre at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2005 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Asia Society Museum, New York; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
2004 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2003-04 ‘Crossing Generations: diVERGE’, Forty Years of Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
1997 'Tryst with Destiny: Art from Modern India 1947-97', Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
1999 ‘Indian Art through Ages, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, Singapore Indian Fine Art Society, Singapore.
1997 'Samprat Kala: Contemporary Indian Paintings, Graphics and Sculptures', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1995 'Realism as An Attitude', IV Asian Art Show, Fukuoka, Japan
1995 Inaugural Exhibition, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS) Regional Art Centre, Panchkula, Haryana
1995 'A Homage, 125th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi', LTG Gallery, New Delhi
1995 'Postcards for Gandhi', SAHMAT, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad
1994 ‘Drawing 1994’, organized by Espace Gallery, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS) Gallery, New Delhi.
1993 Maharashtra Quake Relief Show, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda
1993 ‘Wounds’, organized by Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata and at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi.
1993 ‘Maharashtra Quake Relief Fund Show ‘, organized by Sahmat, New Delhi
1992 Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1989 ‘Timeless Art’, Exhibition and Auction, The Times of India Sesquicentennial at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai
1989 Artists Alert, Sahmat, New Delhi
1985 ‘East–West Encounter’, Max Muller Bhavan, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1984 15th International Art Exhibition, Tokyo
1982 ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, Royal Academy of Arts, Festival of India, London
1982 ‘Inaugural Show’, Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal
1982 ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
1979 ‘Contemporary Indian Painting’, Iraq and other West Asian Countries
1975 3rd Triennale, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
1972 ‘25 Years of Indian Art’, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
1967 Cinquieme Biennale de Paris, Paris
1963 7th Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo
Honours and Awards
2009 Raja Ravi Varma Puruskaram, Government of Kerala
2002 Kalidas...
2009 Raja Ravi Varma Puruskaram, Government of Kerala
2002 Kalidas Sanman, Madhya Pradesh Government
1998-99 Ravishankar Rawal Award, Gujarat Government
1988 Residency at Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy
1983 Padmashri, Government of India
1970 Group 8, New Delhi
1963-66 Commonwealth Scholarship, Royal College of Art, London
1962 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1961,63 Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1961 Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academi, Ahmedabad
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