Sudhir Patwardhan
Sudhir Patwardhan | |
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Artist Sudhir Patwardhan at Kochi-Muziris Biennial 2014 | |
Born | Maharashtra, India |
Education | Armed Forces Medical College |
Occupation | Artist |
Sudhir Patwardhan is an Indian contemporary painter and a practising radiologist.
Early life
[edit]Patwardhan was born in Pune, Maharashtra in 1949. In 1972 he graduated in Medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. He moved to Mumbai in 1973 and worked as a radiologist in Thane from 1975 to 2005.[1]
Career
[edit]After 2005 he became a full-time artist. The city-scape features prominently in his canvases, and reflect the agonies of the urban middle class and poor.[2] Patwardhan’s works are in the permanent collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai; Roopankar Museum, Bhopal; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts and other prominent private and public collections.
Select Exhibitions (National and International)
[edit]- 'Aspects of Modem Indian Art' Oxford, U.K. 1982
- Contemporary Indian Art, festival of India, London, 1982
- Seven Indian Artists, Hamburg, West Germany, 1982
- Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, New York, 1985
- Festival of India, Center George Pompidou, Paris 1986
- 'Coupe de Coeur' Geneva, 1987
- 'Gadyaparva Exhibition' Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (1990), 'Parallel Perceptions', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (1993)
- 'Contemporary Indian Painting from the Herwitz Family Collection Part I, auction by Sotheby's, New York, USA (1995, 96)
- 'Contemporary Indian Painters 96' Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1996)
- 'Charcoal & Conte' Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai (1997), Icons of the Millennium (Lakeeren Art Gallery), Mumbai
- 'Extreme Gourmet' Indigo, Lakeeren, Mumbai and Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK (2001)
External links
[edit]- "Sudhir Patwardhan - Paintings and Drawings - Main Page". sudhirpatwardhan.com.
- "Sudhir Patwardhan". guildindia.com.
References
[edit]- ^ "Sudhir Patwardhan". Saffronart.
- ^ "ArtAsiaPacific: Where I Work Sudhir Patwardhan". artasiapacific.com.