• Sudhir patwardhan

    Sudhir patwardhan was born in Pune, India in the year 1949.

    Sudhir Patwardhan considers himself a painter of people. His works centres around one poetically monumental panorama of an urban and natural environment. The recent exhibition (2002) of his works at the Sakshi Gallery centred around one poetically monumental panorama of an urban and natural environment. The mostly charcoal drawings on paper were like instant notations from what happens among working-class people on city streets, otherwise more or less sketchy studies done from photographs.

  • Education

    • Self -Taught
    • 1967-72 Graduated in Medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune

  • Exibitions

    Selected Solo Exhibitions

    • 2012 'Route Maps', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2011 'Family Fiction', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2007-08 ‘Citing The City’, Traveling Exhibition at Sakshi Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Gallerie 88, Kolkata; Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi and Red Earth Gallery, Vadodara
    • 2004 India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
    • 2004 ABC Gallery, Vadodara
    • 2004 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2002 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2002 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2001 Sakshi Gallery, Bengaluru
    • 1999 Design Centre, Thane, Maharashtra
    • 1999 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1999 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
    • 1995 Gallery Chemould, Kolkata
    • 1994 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
    • 1994 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1992 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1990 Art Heritage, New Delhi
    • 1989 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1988 Pokharan, Thane, Maharashtra
    • 1984 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1979 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1979 Art Heritage, New Delhi

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    • 2014 'Sacred / Scared', Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi
    • 2013 'Still Life', Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
    • 2013 'ZONES OF CONTACT: Propositions on the Museum', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
    • 2012 'Social Fabric', presented by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) at Rivington Place; Londs Konsthall, London
    • 2012 'On Line', Gallery Le Sutra, Mumbai
    • 2012 'Small is Beautiful', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2011 'Rekhavishkar 1 & 2' (The Art of Drawing), The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2011 'Narrations, Quotations & Commentaries', Grosvenor Gallery, London
    • 2010-11 'Figure/Landscape: Part Two', Aicon Gallery, London
    • 2010 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2010 'Figure/Landscape: Part One', Aicon Gallery, New York
    • 2010 'Freedom to March: Rediscovering Gandhi through Dandi', presented by Ojas Art at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
    • 2010 'Earth', Gallery OED (Open Eyed Dreams), Kochi
    • 2010-11 'Writing Visuals', The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata; W + K Exp, New Delhi
    • 2010 'Black and White', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
    • 2009 'Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin', Emile Lowe Gallery, Hempstead
    • 2009 'Tracing Time', Bodhi Art, Mumbai
    • 2008 'Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture', in association with Bodhi Art, and supported by the British Council, Kunststiftung NRW and the Provence of Antwerp at Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MuKHA), Belgium
    • 2008 'Multiple Modernities: India, 1905-2005', Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
    • 2007 ‘Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art’, Kusntmuseum Bern, Switzerland
    • 2007 ‘Faces of Indian Art’, Art Alive Gallery at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
    • 2007 Inaugural show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2007 ‘Art on the Wing’ Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
    • 2007 ‘Celebration’ Project 88, Mumbai
    • 2007 ‘Greenscape’ BNHS Auction, Mumbai
    • 2007 ‘Art Fusion Show’ Nehru Center, Mumbai
    • 2007 ‘Gateway Bombay’, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass, USA
    • 2007 ‘Yuva Parivartan’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2006-07 ‘Indian Art - Inventing / Inverting Traditions’, Grosvenor Vadehra, London
    • 2006 ‘Shadow Lines’ Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
    • 2006 ‘Art for Conservation’, Mall Galleries, London
    • 2006 ‘A work of Art, a work on paper’ Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2006 ‘Modern Indian works on Paper’ Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey
    • 2006 ‘Art for Concern’, Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai, Bangalore
    • 2006 ‘El Filo del Deseo - Arte Reciente en India’, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Mexico
    • 2005 ‘Joie de Vivre’ Art Konsult, New Delhi
    • 2005 ‘Bhupen among Friends’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
    • 2005 ‘Still-Life’, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
    • 2005 ‘Grey’, Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata
    • 2005 ‘New Paradigma II’, Gallery Threshold, Kolkata
    • 2005 ‘Bicentenary Celebrations Auction’, Asiatic Society, Mumbai
    • 2005 ‘Ardhanarishvara’, Tao Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2004 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Asia Society, New York
    • 2004 ‘Visions of Landscape’, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2004 ‘Selected works from the Jehangir Nicholson Collection’, Mumbai
    • 2004 ‘Paintings from the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Mumbai’, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
    • 2004 ‘The World of Serigraphs’ Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
    • 2003 ‘Diverge, Forty years of Gallery Chemould’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
    • 2003 Exhibition organized by Parkinson’s Disease Foundation of India, Mumbai
    • 2003 ‘Tiranga’, Jindal Foundation for Performing and Creative Arts, Indian Habitat Center, New Delhi
    • 2003’Works on Paper’, Gallery Threshold , India Habitat Center, New Delhi
    • 2003 ‘Men Against Violence and Abuse’, Artists’ Centre, Mumbai
    • 2003 Exhibition organized by Gandhara Art Gallery at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
    • 2003 ‘A Celebration of Color’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2003 ‘Said & Unsaid’, Apparao Galleries, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2002 ‘Post-Independence Indian Art from Sunanda and Umesh Gaur Collection’, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S.A
    • 2002 ‘Icons and Symbols in Indian Art’, Center of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
    • 2002 ‘Indian Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections’, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S.A.
    • 2001 ‘The Human Factor’, The Guild, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2001 ‘Ideas and Images’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
    • 2001 ‘In Conversation’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
    • 2001 ‘Figures in My Mind’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
    • 2001 ‘Osian's The Passionate Detachment' auction’, Mumbai
    • 2001 ‘Century City’, Tate Modern, London
    • 2000 ‘Human Figure’, Gallery 42, New Delhi
    • 2000 ‘Millennium Show’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
    • 2000 Chitram Art Gallery, Kochi
    • 2000 ‘Extreme Gourmet, Indigo’, Lakeeren, Mumbai
    • 2000 ‘Their Story’, VAHI Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
    • 2000 ‘Early Works’, Fine Art Company, Mumbai
    • 1999 ‘The Art of Charity’ ,Sir J.J Parsee Benevolent Institute, J.J School of Art, Mumbai
    • 1999 ‘Ideas and Images’, Critics Choice, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
    • 1999’ Elephanta Project’, INTACH, Mumbai
    • 1999 ‘The World Is Round And Time Is Cyclical, Art Today, New Delhi
    • 1999 ‘Icons of the Millennium’, Lakeeran Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1999 Vadehra Art Gallery and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1998 Anniversary Exhibition, Chitram Art Gallery, Kochi
    • 1998 ‘Indian Contemporary Art’, Vadehra Art Gallery and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1998 ‘Artists for Sustainable Development’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
    • 1997 ‘Charcoal and Conte’, Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1997 ‘Epic Reality’, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
    • 1997 ‘The intuitive Logic II’, Exhibition and Auction, Mumbai
    • 1997 ‘The Intuitive Logic’ , A Festival of Contemporary Painting, Mumbai
    • 1997 ‘Indian Contemporary Art- Post-Independence’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
    • 1997 ‘Ashraya’, Bangalore
    • 1997 ‘Image Beyond Image’, Glenberra Art Museum, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai
    • 1996 ‘Contemporary Indian Painters 96’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1996 ‘Urban Signals, Shifting Images’, Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai; Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
    • 1996 ‘Exhibition Felicitating Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1996 ‘Contemporary Indian Painting from the Herwitz Family Collection Part II’, auction by Sotheby's, New York
    • 1996 ‘A Tree In My Life’, The Village Art Gallery, New Delhi
    • 1995 ‘Art India Now’, Bose Pacia, New York
    • 1995 ‘Mumbai RPG’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1995 ‘Art for CRY’ , Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
    • 1995 ‘Postcards for Gandhi Sahamat’, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and New Delhi
    • 1995 Contemporary Indian Painting from the Herwitz Family Collection Part I, auction by Sotheby's, New York
    • 1994 ‘Drawing 94’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
    • 1993 ‘Trends and Images’, Center of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
    • 1993 ‘Shraddha Samarpan’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1993 ‘Parallel Perceptions’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1992 ‘Journeys within Landscapes’, Sakshi Gallery , Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1990 ‘An Artistic Riot’, Sophia Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1990 ‘Gadyaparva Exhibition’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
    • 1989 ‘Artists Alert’, exhibition for Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, New Delhi
    • 1989 ‘Timeless Art’, exhibition and auction by Sotheby's, Mumbai
    • 1989 ‘The Richness of Spirit’, Egyptian Academy, Rome
    • 1988 ‘The Richness of Spirit ‘, National Museum, Kuwait
    • 1988 ‘Art for CRY’, Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi and Bangalore
    • 1986 Group exhibition organized ,by Altaf, New Habib High School, Mumbai
    • 1985 ‘2nd Conference’, All India League for Revolutionary Culture, Dhanbad
    • 1985 ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, Festival of India , New York
    • 1985 ‘Thirty Artists in the Collection of Richardson Hindustan’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 1984 ‘Ten Artists’, Gallery 7, Mumbai
    • 1982 ‘Seven Indian Artists’, Worpswede, Hanover, Hamburg, Bayreuth, Braunsweig, Germany
    • 1982 ‘Inaugural Exhibition’, Roopankar, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
    • 1981 ‘Place for People’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Ravindra Bhavan, New Delhi
    • 1979 ‘Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad’, Bhopal

    Joint Exhibitions

    • 2005-06 With Gieve Patel at Museum Gallery, Mumbai and Bose Pacia, New York
    • 2000 ‘Objective and Subjective’, Sudhir Patwardhan and Ajay Desai, Gallery 7, Mumbai

    Participations

    • 2013 'Aesthetic Bind: Subject of Death', Celebrating 50 Years of Contemporary Art, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
    • 2012-13 'Radical Terrain: Modernist Art from India', Rubin Museum of Art, New York
    • 2012 Diamond Jubilee Celebrations, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 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, 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
    • 2011-12 'Modernist Art from India: The Body Unbound', Rubin Museum of Art, New York
    • 2011 'Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2011 '1:3:1- Part III', W+K Exp, New Delhi
    • 2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
    • 2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
    • 2010 'Roots', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at The Park, Chennai
    • 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
    • 2007 ‘1st Anniversary Exhibition’ Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
    • 2001 ‘10th Anniversary Show’, Sakshi Gallery, Bengaluru
    • 2000 ‘The Harmony Show’, Nehru Center, Mumbai
    • 1999 ‘Anniversary Exhibition’ , Chitram Art Gallery, Kochi
    • 1992 ‘Silver Jubilee exhibition’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
    • 1987 ‘Coupe de Coeur’, Geneva, Switzerland
    • 1986’Festival of India’ , Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, France
    • 1976,75,74 Bombay Art Society, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

    Sudhir patwardhan lives and works in Mumbai.