Sakti Burman was born in Kolkata in the year 1935.

Sakti Burman's paintings evoke the look of a weathered fresco, depicting figures in hues that the viewer feels were once vivid, but are now faded. They transport one into their dream-like worlds, where the perspective and composition is often that of medieval icons. Burman has mastered both pointillism and the marbling effect, achieved by blending oils with acrylics, which enhance the fresco-like, enthralling appearances of his works on paper and canvas.
Education
- 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris
Exibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2015 'A Private Universe;, presented by Art Alive Gallery at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 2012 'Linear Extensions', Akar Prakar, Kolkata
- 2012 'The Wonder of it All', Retrospective Exhibition presented by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai and Apparao Galleries, Chennai at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata; Dakshina Chitra, Chennai
- 2011 'Yesterday Once Again', Apparao Galleries, Chennai
- 2011 'Pages From a Sketch Book', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2010 Exhibition of Serigraphs, organized by the Serigraph Studio at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi; Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai; Apparao Galleries, Chennai; Sumukha Art Gallery, Bangalore
- 2009 'Archetype', Aicon Gallery, London
- 2009 'Encaptured Gaze', Aicon Gallery, New York
- 2009 'Encaptured Gaze', Jehangir Art Gallery; Art Musings, Mumbai in association with Aicon Gallery
- 2008 'Encaptured Gaze', Art Alive, New Delhi
- 2008 'Now and Then', Maison de l'Unesco, organized by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at Salles Miro, Paris
- 2007 Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 2006 Organized by organized by Pundole Art Gallery and Apparao Galleries in Chennai and at Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 2006 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2005 ‘Retrospective’, organized by Apparao Galleries at Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 2002 Organized by Art Today, New Delhi and Pudole Art Gallery, Mumbai at Art Today, New Delhi
- 2001 Organized by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai and Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
- 2001 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1999 Organized by Apparao Galleries at Atlantic Gallery, New York
- 1998 Salon d’ Automne, Paris, Espace Eiffel Branly
- 1997 Organized by The Town Hall at Cloitre de la Dame Blanche, La Rochelle
- 1997 Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris in Tokushima, Myazaki and Osaka
- 1996 Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris at Wakayama and Sapporo
- 1996 Organized by Apparao Galleries at Visual Art Center, Hong Kong
- 1995 The Gallery (Apparao Galleries), Chennai
- 1993 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1993 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 1992 Centre of Contemporary Art, New Delhi
- 1992 ‘Hommage a Beaudelaire’, Galerie d’Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris
- 1990 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1989 Semaine Culturelle Indienne, Eaubonne, Val d’Oise
- 1989 Fondation Firmin Bauby, Perpignan
- 1989 XX eme Salon Du Grenier a Sel, Orleans
- 1988 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1988 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 1988 Sista Art Gallery, Bangalore
- 1988 'Hommage a Rabindranath Tagore', Galerie d’ Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris
- 1988 Galerie Presences, Bruxelles
- 1986 Galerie Das Kunstabinett, Gogh, Allemagne
- 1986 Hotel de ville de Clermont –Ferrand, France
- 1986 Centre Culturel de la Ville d’ Agen
- 1985 Galerie Schemes, Lille Centre Cultural de Saint Denis Maison de Van Gogh, Auvets-sur-Oise Galerie Untenburg, Zurich
- 1984 Musee Denon, Chalon-sur-Saone, Galerie d’Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris
- 1984 Kunsthandlung Osper, Cologne
- 1983 Galerie Sagar, Zurich
- 1982 'Contes et Legendes', Galerie d’Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris
- 1982 Galleria Cecchini, Perugia
- 1982 Galleria Lame, Bologna
- 1981 Galerie de la Rue Ancienne, Geneva
- 1980 Galerie de Bernardi, Aachen, Musee de Blois, Musee de Villeneuve-sur-Lot
- 1979 Galerie Gerard Sauret, Libos
- 1978 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
- 1978 Chanakya Art Gallery, New Delhi
- 1977 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1977 Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
- 1975 Galerie de l’Hotel Meridien, Nice
- 1974 Galerie Arts et Beaux-Arts de France, Paris
- 1973 Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Genoa
- 1971 Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan
- 1970 Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris
- 1970 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1967 Piccadilly Gallery, London
- 1967 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1965 Kunika Chemould, New Delhi
- 1964 Scott and Faure Gallery, La Jolla, California
- 1963 Galerie Saint Placide, Paris
- 1962 Ashoka Gallery, Kolkata
- 1962 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
- 1961 Piccadilly Gallery, London
- 1958 Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
- 1956 Ecole des Beaux- Arts, France
- 1954 Art and Industry, Kolkata
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2011-12 'Reprise 2011', Aicon Gallery, New York
- 2011 'Aureus 2011', Gallerie Nvya, New Delhi
- 2010 '10 x 10', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
- 2010 'Dali's Elephant', Aicon Gallery, London
- 2010 'Besides Paris', Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
- 2010 'The Living Insignia', Gallery Ensign, New Delhi
- 2010 'Modern Folk: The Folk Art Roots of the Modernist Avant-Garde', Aicon Gallery, New York
- 2009 'Think Small', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
- 2007 'Faces of Indian Art', organized by Art Alive at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 2007 ‘Understanding Oneness in Diversity’, Kitab Mahal, Mumbai
- 2014 'Rituals and Reasons: Invoking the Sensual in Art', Apprao Galleries, Chennai
- 2007 ‘An Evening in Paris …Rome…London’, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
- 2007 'Mirror', Gallery Nvya, New Delhi
- 2007 'Resonance', organized by Art Musings at Museum Gallery, Mumbai
- 2006 'Shadanga', organized by Gallerie Ganesha at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 2006 ‘Sensuality, Perception and the Self’, Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 2006 'Making of Divinity', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
- 2006 'Two 2 Tango', organized by Gallerie Nvya at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
- 2006 'The New Space', Art Space, Dubai
- 2004 ‘Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings’ by Sakti Burman, Jayasri Burman, Maya Burman, Maite Delteil and Paresh Maity, organized by Visual Arts, London at Gallery 27, London
- 2004 ‘Confluence 2004’, AICON Gallery, New York
- 2004 'A Vision: Looking Back/ Looking Forward', Apparao Galleries, Chennai
- 2004 'Indian Artist for France', organized by French Embassy at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
- 2003 'Works on Paper', organized by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 2003 ‘Mappings, Exciting New Links Between the Ancient Cultures of India and Egypt’, organized by Uttarayan, Baroda at Visual Art Gallery, India habitat Centre, New Delhi and Bayer ABS Limited Gallery, Vadodara
- 2003 ‘Portraits of a Decade’, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
- 2003 ‘Celebration of Color’, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery and The Times of India, Mumbai, New Delhi
- 2003 ‘The Said and the Unsaid’, organized by The Committee of the Jehangir Art Gallery and Apparao Gallery, Mumbai
- 2003 ‘Shanti Path’, Tao Gallery, Mumbai
- 2003 'Master Strokes', Art Musings, Mumbai
- 2003 'Fair and Furious', organized by Art Alive at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 2003 'The Celebration of Color', Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi and Times of India, Mumbai
- 2002 ‘Aspects of Modern Indian Painting’, New York organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2002 ‘Return to Eden’, Art Musings, Mumbai
- 2001 ‘Three Burman’, Sakti, Maite and Maya, Art Today, New Delhi
- 2001 ‘Art of Bengal, Past and Present 1850-2000’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai and Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
- 2001 ‘Burman’, Sakti, Maite, Maya’, Mediatheque du Lamentin, La Martinique
- 2001 ‘Indian Contemporary Art’, organized by Saffronart, Hongkong
- 2001 ‘Indian Contemporary Fine Art’, organized by Saffronart in collaboration with Apparao Galleries, Los Angeles
- 2001 ‘A Treasure Trove’, Paintings from B.K. Birla Family Collection, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
- 2000 Sigmund Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’, organized by University Art Museum, Birghamton, New York
- 2000 Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna
- 2000 ‘Indian Art Through The Ages, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, organized by Indian Fine Arts Society, Singapore
- 2000 ‘The World Is Round And Time Is Cyclical’, Art Today, New Delhi
- 2000 ‘Paradise Revisited’, Art Musings, Mumbai
- 2000 ‘Shatabdi – Reflection on a Century Past’, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
- 2000 Festival des Cinemas d’Asie, Salle des Ursulines, Vesoul
- 2000 ‘Paper’, an exhibition of works on paper, The Terrace Garden, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
- 2000 ‘The Family 3’, Sakti Burman, Maya Burman and Jayasri Burman, Apparao Galleries, Chennai
- 1998 Christie’s Auction, Indian Contemporary Paintings, London
- 1998 ‘Multimedia, Art of the 1900’s’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
- 1998 ‘Within The Fame’, Apparao Galleries, Hongkong
- 1998 ‘The Art of Charity’, Mumbai
- 1997 Displayed along with works of Picasso, Chagall and Miro at Tokushima, Myazaki and Osaka, Japan
- 1997 ‘Chamatkar: The Indian Metaphor’, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata at Whitley’s Art Gallery, London
- 1995 Christie’s Auction, Indian Contemporary paintings, London
- 1995 ‘Autumn Exhibition’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata at All Indian Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
- 1994 ‘Drawing 94’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
- 1993 ‘Helpage India’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1983 L’Art Fantastique, Musee de Belfort, France
- 1981 Figuration Actuelle, Chateau des Hayes, France
- 1980 Galerie Jean Marbach, Mulhouse
- 1980 Galerie Schemes, Lille, France
- 1980 Musee de Villeneuve – Sur- Lot, France
- 1980 Musee de Blois, France
- 1975 The Hermitage, Leningrad
- 1975 Pouchkine Museum, Moscow
- 1964 Chemould, Kolkata
Participations
- 2013 'The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
- 2011 'Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art', from the Collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin at Museum Oglethorpe, Atlanta
- 2011 'Resonance', Art Musings, Mumbai
- 2011 'Celebrations 2011', Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
- 2010 'Art Celebrates 2010', represented by Gallerie Ganesha at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games
- 2010 'Summer Show 2010', Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
- 2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2010 'Celebration 2010', Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi
- 2007 'Art Paris', Abu Dhabi
- 2007 'India Art 2007', organized by International Institute of Fine Arts at House of Lords, London
- 2007 Invited as 'Artist in Focus', at Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
- 2007 ‘17th Anniversary Show’, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
- 2006 ‘17th Anniversary Group Show’, organized by Gallerie Ganesha at Gallerie Ganesha and The Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 2006 'Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai
- 2005 'Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai
- 2005 'Spirit Set Free', Golden Jubilee Show, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
- 2003 Anniversary Exhibition, Art Musings, Mumbai
- 2002 'Palette 2002', Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 1998 ‘Harmony Show’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
- 1984 International Graphic Art Exhibition, New Delhi
- 1982 V Internatinal Triennale, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
- Medaille d’argent au Salon de Montmorency
- 1956 Prix des Etrangers, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
- Prix de la ville de l’Isle-Adam Medaille d’or, Salon des Artistes Francais, Grand Palais, Paris
- Medaille arts, Science et Letters
- Medaille au Salon de Juvisy
- Invite d ’honneur, Colombes
- Invite d’honneur, Douai Invite d’honneur, sainte-Maxime
- Invite d’honneur, English Les Bains
- Invite d ’honneur, Delle
Sakti Burman lives and works in New Delhi.