Ganesh Haloi
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Ganesh Haloi | |
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Born | 1936 Jamalpur |
Nationality | Indian |
Known for | Visual Art |
Ganesh Haloi is an India-based visual artist, curator, and author.[1][2]
Early life[edit]
Ganesh was born in 1936 in Jamalpur village in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh) and spent much of his childhood. His family came to Calcutta, India in 1950 after the India-Pakistan Partition. In India, he started with a job of sketcher with Archaeological Survey of India to make copies of paintings in Ajanta Caves. He later worked at the Government College of Art and Craft as a faculty member.[3][4]
Exhibitions[edit]
- Form and Play (Kolkata and New York)[5][6]
- Documenta 14 (Athens 2016, Kassel 2017)[4]
- Poetics of Abstraction (Kolkata January 2018) [7]
- Art: Bengal Now (Delhi January 2020)[8]
Awards and recognition[edit]
- Manojmohan Basu Smarak Samman for his autobiography Amar Katha[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Ganesh Haloi's work on display at Kolkata's Akar Prakar". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ↑ "An unflinching gaze". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Artist Ganesh Haloi gets state award for autobiography". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Veteran Indian artist represents modern Indian art in a two-city exhibition in Europe". The Indian Express. 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ↑ Pioneer, The. "Memories on canvas". The Pioneer. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ↑ "Form and Play: A new exhibition highlights how Ganesh Haloi's paintings oscillate between the seen and the sensed". Firstpost. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ↑ Das, Soumitra (2018-01-13). "In Ganesh Haloi's expo, geometric forms get a life of their own". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ↑ "Bengali beauties on canvas". The Asian Age. 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2020-03-03.