Nasreen Mohamedi
Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1970’s Nasreen Mohamedi was born in Karachi in 1937, before the state of Pakistan was carved out of British colonial India. From a young age, her life was cosmopolitan as she was born in an elite Tyabji Family. Her father also owned a photographic equipment shop in […]
Nagji Patel
Nagji Patel (1937-2017) Uttarayan Sculpture Camp, Vadodara, 2008 Nagji Patel was born in 1937 in Juni Jithardi, Gujarat and did his diploma in Sculpture from M S University, Baroda. He got used to playing with clay since his childhood days and this also shaped the way he approached art. He was influenced to a very […]
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh (b. 1937) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1973 G M Sheikh was born in 1937 in Saurashtra, Gujarat, and did his masters in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda in 1961. He also studied at the Royal College of Arts, London from 1963-69. Apart from being a […]
Arpita Singh
Arpita Singh (b. 1937) Madhubhan Artist Camp, Anand, 2010 Arpita Singh was born in 1937 in what is now Bangladesh. She attended the School of Art at Delhi Polytechnic in New Delhi from 1954 to 1959. She worked at the Weavers’ Service Centre, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India in New Delhi and experienced the […]
Ratan Parimoo
Ratan Parimoo (b. 1936) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1973 Prof. Ratan Parimoo, born in 1936 in Srinagar, Kashmir, is a trained painter and a highly respected art historian. His father was a general practitioner and their house was on the banks of the Jhelum river. He was an intelligent student and did brilliantly well […]
Raghav Kaneria
Raghav Kaneria (b. 1936) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1974-75 Raghav Kaneria was born in Anida in 1936 and is a sculptor and an experimentalist of the early 1960s. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda and did his masters from London. He also was a faculty at the Walthamstow School of Arts, […]
Sakti Burman
Sakti Burman (b. 1935) At a Wedding function, Vadodara, 2005 Sakti Burman was born in 1935 in Kolkata, though his parents had lived in France for a while. His mother died when he was very young which left an impression on his mind forever. The family later moved to Dibrugarh where his experiences in visual […]
Paramjit Singh
Paramjit Singh (b. 1935) Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, 1982 Paramjit Singh was born in 1935, in Amritsar, Punjab and received his Diploma in Fine Arts from Delhi Polytechnic in 1958 and studied Print making at Atelier Nord, Norway in the 1970’s. He was a Professor of Art and Art Education at Jamia Milia Islamia University and […]
Bhanu Shah
Bhanu Shah (b. 1935) Patang Hotel, Ahmedabad, 2010 Bhanu Shah was born on January 5, 1935, in Ahmedabad and graduated in Fine Arts as well as gained a Post-graduate diploma in Museology from M S University, Baroda. In college, he used to paint beautiful landscapes, which seemingly empowered him by expressing himself strongly. He has […]
Naina Dalal
Naina Dalal (b. 1935) Patang Hotel, Ahmedabad, 2010 Naina Dalal was born in 1935, did her Bachelors and Masters from Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda and went to London Polytechnique and Pratt Institute in New York to learn Lithography and Etching. She has had several solo, group and a retrospective show of graphics to her […]