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Feroz Khan
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Born in 1978 in Delhi, Feroz Khan has been working as an artist since his graduation. He has not undergone any formal training in art, but has gained experience and exposure first through his father, Ibrahim, a banner painter, and subsequently through the renowned artist Manjit Bawa, whom he trained under for fourteen years.
Armed with a brush and with the zeal to fill blank canvasses with the colours of life, Khan spent his...
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Born in 1978 in Delhi, Feroz Khan has been working as an artist since his graduation. He has not undergone any formal training in art, but has gained experience and exposure first through his father, Ibrahim, a banner painter, and subsequently through the renowned artist Manjit Bawa, whom he trained under for fourteen years.
Armed with a brush and with the zeal to fill blank canvasses with the colours of life, Khan spent his time under Bawa’s tutelage trying his hand at various mediums, genres and processes. Similarly, he tried a range of subjects, from studies of European masters to the layered and textured works popular amongst his contemporaries. Finally finding comfort in oils, the artist began turned his attention to the subjects he saw around him every day. Drawing inspiration from real life and pouring his soul into each canvas, he painted images of old men and women, rickshaw pullers, beggars, children and various street vendors – denizens of the city’s poorest quarters.
Speaking of Bawa’s influence on his style, Khan notes, “Deferential to my master’s academic style of figuration, I soon convinced my guru of deft brushmanship and ability to create naturalistic human and animal forms, avoiding explicit linear delineation, while projecting solid masses. Also, I took a cue from my Sufi-inspired guru to envisage the serene ambience around such scenes as a young mahout seated atop my contemplative, unhurried elephant, or, as in another simple but lively oil painting, the endearing relationship between a small boy and his pet lamb…All such figurative works are evocative of perfect harmony and easy poise. Deep down, one thus discovers a kind of spiritual togetherness between man and animals (as also inanimate appurtenances that are used for making a living, but treated with love and care).”
The first solo exhibition of Khan’s work was held at the Krishna Collection Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2004, and he has since shown his work at the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, in 2006; Galerie Romain Roland, New Delhi, and Epicentre, Gurgaon, in 2008; and Galerie Waterton and HK Fine Art Gallery, Singapore, in 2009. In addition he has participated in several group exhibitions in India and abroad. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.
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Born
1978
New Delhi
Education
Self Taught Artist
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Galerie Waterton, Singapore...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Galerie Waterton, Singapore in collaboration with HKFineart Gallery
2008 ‘The Incredible Everyday-ness of Being’, Epicentre, Gurgaon; Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise New Delhi
2006 ‘Tales of Ordinary People’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2004 Krishna Collection Art Gallery, New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Galerie Waterton, Singapore
2009 The Faraway Tree, Chennai
2007 Heritage School, Gurgaon
2009 Heritage School, Gurgaon
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