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{{short description|Indian Abstract painter (born 1958)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2025}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Sujata Bajaj
| image = File:Sujata_Bajaj.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| birth_date = 1958
| birth_place = [[Jaipur]], India
| death_date =
| death_place =
| field = [[Visual Arts]], [[Drawing]], [[Abstract painting]]
| training = The [[Macrobert Arts Centre]]
| movement =
| works =
| patrons =
| awards = French Government Scholarship, 1988-1989
| website = http://sujata-bajaj.com/
}}

'''Sujata Bajaj''' (born 1958, in [[Jaipur]]) is an Indian painter, best known for her work in [[Tribal art|Indian tribal art]]. A graduate of the [[Beaux-Arts de Paris]], her work has been displayed at the [[Lalit Kala Akademi]], the [[Triveni Kala Sangam]], the [[Jehangir Art Gallery]], the [[:no:Kunsthall Stavanger|Kunsthall Stavanger]], the [[Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris|Casa de Noruega]], and the [[Macrobert Arts Centre]] between 1978 and 2001.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waldberg |first1=Michel |title=Sujata Bajaj |date=2009 |publisher=Différence |isbn=978-2-7291-1855-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ASrcQgAACAAJ |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Tata |first1=Huzan |title=Seeking Ganesha with Sujata Bajaj |url=https://www.vervemagazine.in/arts-and-culture/sujata-bajaj-artist-ganesha-jehangir-art-gallery-art-soul-mumbai |access-date=21 June 2023 |work=Verve Magazine |date=10 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Play of forms |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/play-of-forms/cid/1385189 |access-date=21 June 2023 |work=Telegraph India |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Chatterji |first1=Shoma A |title='I like to remain free from any labelling' |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/exclusive-interviews/like-remain-free-labelling-1502607723.html |access-date=21 June 2023 |work=The Statesman |date=24 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sujata Bajaj |url=https://thecurators.art/products/suba-sujata-bajaj |website=The Curators Art |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Houques |first1=Véronique |last2=Houques |first2=Claude |title=Histoire de la Société des artistes indépendants normands 1938-2005 |date=2006 |location=Rouen |page=451 |language=fr}}</ref>

== Life ==
Sujata Bajaj is the daughter of Anasuyaji and Radhakrishnaji Bajaj and was close to [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and [[Vinoba Bhave]]. She was raised in [[Jaipur]] and attended graduate school in [[Pune]]. She has a degree in fine arts in Indian tribal art and graduated from the [[École des Beaux-Arts de Paris|École des beaux-arts de Paris]]. She has been living in Paris since 1988.

She is married to Rune Jul Larsen and has a daughter, Helena Bajaj-Larsen.

== Exhibitions ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+Solo Exhibitions in India
!Year!!Location
|-
|1978
|Bal Gandharva Art Gallery, [[Pune]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1979
|[[Jehangir Art Gallery]], [[Mumbai]]
|-
|Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, [[Mumbai]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1980
|Bal Gandharva Art Gallery, [[Pune]]
|-
|[[Jehangir Art Gallery]], [[Mumbai]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1982
|[[Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta|Academy of Fine Arts]], [[Kolkata]]
|-
|Bal Gandharva Art Gallery, [[Pune]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1984
|Bal Gandharva Art Gallery, [[Pune]]
|-
|[[Jehangir Art Gallery]], [[Mumbai]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1985
|Bal Gandharva Art Gallery, [[Pune]]
|-
|[[Triveni Kala Sangam]], [[New Delhi]]
|-
|1986
|Taj Art Gallery, [[Mumbai]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1987
|Bal Gandharva Art Gallery, [[Pune]]
|-
|Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, [[Mumbai]]
|-
|[[Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath|Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishath]], [[Bangalore]]
|-
|1988
|Sarala's Art Centre, [[Chennai]]
|-
|1989
|[[Jehangir Art Gallery]], [[Mumbai]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1991
|Birla Academy, [[Kolkata]]
|-
|The Gallery, [[Chennai]]
|-
|1992
|[[Jehangir Art Gallery]], [[Mumbai]]
|-
|1993
|The Gallery, [[Chennai]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1995
|The Gallery, [[Chennai]]
|-
|[[Triveni Kala Sangam]], [[New Delhi]]
|-
|1996
|[[Jehangir Art Gallery]], [[Mumbai]]
|-
|2000
|[[Jehangir Art Gallery]], [[Mumbai]]
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Other Exhibitions in India
!Year
!Location
!Title
|-
|1989
|Lalit Kala Galleries, [[New Delhi]]
|Indian Eclectics
|-
|1993
|Lalit Kala Galleries, [[New Delhi]]
|Souvenirs from France
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Solo Exhibitions Worldwide
!Year
!Location
|-
|rowspan=3|1988
|Commonwealth Art Gallery, [[Edinburgh, UK|Edinburgh, U.K]]
|-
|[[Macrobert Arts Centre|Macrobert Art Centre]], [[University of Stirling]], U.K
|-
|American Cultural Society, [[Washington (state)|Washington, U.S.A]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1989
|Centre for Near Eastern Students, [[Paris, France]]
|-
|Jean Louis Voisin Gallery, Pourville-sur-Mer, France
|-
|Bernanos Gallery, [[Ministry of National Education (France)|Ministry of National Education]], [[Paris, France]]
|-
|1991
|Christine Marquet de Vasselot Gallery, [[Paris, France]]
|-
|1992
|Art & Data Gallery, [[Frankfurt, Germany]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1993
|Norway House, [[Paris, France]]
|-
|Art & Data Gallery, [[Frankfurt, Germany]]
|-
|Gallery Nordstrand, [[Oslo, Norway]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1994
|Clay Gallery, [[Brussels, Belgium]]
|-
|Christine Marquet de Vasselot Gallery, [[Paris, France]]
|-
|1995
|Art & Data Gallery, [[Frankfurt, Germany]]
|-
|1997
|Gallery Nordstrand, [[Oslo, Norway]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1998
|Mohanjeet Gallery, [[Paris, France]]
|-
|Gallery Akern, [[Kongsberg, Norway]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1999
|Stavanger Art Association, [[Norway]]
|-
|Atlantic Gallery, [[New York City|New York, USA]]
|-
|rowspan=2|2000
|Gallery Nordstrand, [[Oslo, Norway]]
|-
|Galleri & Atelier Varatun Gård, [[Sandnes, Norway]]
|-
|2001
|Gallery Tendenes
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Other Exhibitions Worldwide
!Year
!Location
!Title
|-
|1988
|Tarbes, France
|The Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Painting
|-
|rowspan=6|1989
|École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
|Gallery of the House of Fine Arts
|-
|Galerie du Cygne, Paris
|Indian Artists in Paris
|-
|Neufchâtel-en-Bray, France
|Art en Bray Fair
|-
|Galerie Bernanos, Paris
|The Egalitarian Plural Society
|-
|C.I.U.P, Paris
|Nine Artists of the Cité Universitaire
|-
|Grand Palais, Paris
|May Salon
|-
|1990
|Neufchâtel-en-Bray, France
|Salon Art en Bray
|-
|rowspan=3|1991
|Neufchâtel-en-Bray, France
|Salon Art en Bray
|-
|USA
|New York Art Fair
|-
|Rouen, France
|Normandy Independent Fair
|-
|rowspan=4|1992
|Galleri Bryggen, Bergen, Norway
|
|-
|Christine Marquet de Vasselot Gallery, Paris
|
|-
|University of Frankfurt, Germany
|
|-
|Grand Palais, Paris
|Discovery Lounge
|-
|1993
|Grand Palais, Paris
|Contemporary
|-
|1994
|Frankfurt, Germany
|Ausstellung Indische Kunst
|-
|1995
|Paris
|UNESCO
|-
|1996
|Within the Frame Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1998
|Hong Kong
|50 Years of Independence
|-
|Hong Kong
|Indian Spring
|}

== References ==
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[[Category:20th-century Indian painters]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian painters]]
[[Category:Tribal art]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women painters]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian women painters]]

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