Transcending Borders

Born in Junagadh, in 1942. He is an alumnus of The most prestigious, MS University, Vadodara. He has 136, group shows, 47 Charity shows and 49 solo shows to his credit. He has been awarded many prestigious awards.

It is believed that with loss that a new life begins. As a young artist in the city, G. Subramanian was carving a niche for himself as a decorative painter, when his only daughter was diagnosed with cancer. Her passing away shattered all possibilities and his life came to a standstill. He went on a spiritual journey in search of answers, yet his life seemed distant and blurry. His reverie was broken when he won a gold medal in an art competition, which led him to take weekend art classes for children. He visited the Sistine Chapel in Italy, and while facing Michelangelo’s master piece, he found his path and a whole new meaning to his life.

Shri Gurudas Shenoy is a well-known artist based in Bangalore, who has been practicing for more than two decades. He studied painting from the Faculty of Fine arts, M.S. University, Baroda in the year 1988. He has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group shows at leading art galleries in India, including several at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.

Over the years, drawings, paintings, installations and murals have been a part of Shenoy’s art practice. Several of his murals form prominent landmarks in various centers of the corporate world and his paintings and installations are located at corporate and private institutions and residences in India and abroad. A well-known personality, Shenoy has made significant contributions to the national and international art scene and the cultural ethos of Bangalore.

An economist turned painter and a brilliant colourist with a strong individualism in her work ,Nayanaa Kanodia can be considered to be the pioneer of the genre of L’Art Naif in India. She has held innumerable shows in India and abroad.
Her paintings are in the collection of major art collectors and corporate houses all over theworld.Musee International D’Naif Art in Paris permanently displays her paintings. She has exhibited and demonstrated her painting techniques in Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has been featured in an international publication Women in Art by Reinhard Fuchs, a rare honour for any Indian artist. She was chosen from all the artists of The Commonwealth Countries to have a solo show in their newly renovated complex in London .Impressed with the social messages being conveyed in her paintings, a consortium of schools in Los Altos, U.S.A. is using her work as a medium of instruction to their students.

Born in 1955, Maharashtra. He is an Alumnus of the prestigious Sir JJ School of Arts. He has participated in more than 41, group shows, 12 Art camps and has 13 solo shows to his credit, worldwide.
His artworks are in proud possession of many private and corporate Art lovers.Prakash Ghadge has been working in the medium of pen and ink on canvas for over forty years, wherein he has majorly depicted landscapes or conceptual works inspired from nature. He creates monumental works in a medium which very painstakingly develops, to depict the power of lines and dots. Consistently building on the tones, he evokes the presence of light in each and every work, bringing a lot of positive energy.

BORN 1961 HOWRAH (WEST BENGAL) Graduated from Rabindra Bharati University(cal) with Firstclass second in B.V.A 1986.
Masters from same university with FIRST class FIRST IN M.V.A

Solo Exhibition; Gallery Sundaram (cal)1990. alliance Francaise De Delhi 1995. Bajaj Art Gallery(Mumbai) 1995. Jharokha Art Gallery(Delhi)1995 Suksiti (Cal)1996 Art Konsult(Delhi) 2000
Crimson Art Gallery(Bangalore)2002 Chemould Art Gallery(Cal)2003 Krishna Collector Center(Delhi)2004 Names and Art(Cal)2006 Right Lines Gallery(Bangalore)2008 Japon Chitra Gallery(Cal)2007

Also known as AMIT KUMAR BHAR (Vice President of UNIVART & IAA/AIAP – INDIA, offical partner of UNESCO)

Amit was born in Hooghly Chinsurah (West Bengal) in 1973. Even as a child his first love was art. It was the primary objective of his life. His notebooks at school were invariably filled with sketches and paintings. The scintillating, pristine, rustic beauty of rural Bengal inspired him to take the brush at a very tender age.

The clear blue skies, fallen autumn leaves, grazing cattle and the daily life of the village, nestled on the banks of the river Hoogly inspired him.

He is one of the finest sculptors of India and has won the Presidents National Award. He hails from Midnapore in West Bengal but now lives in Mumbai. He has held many shows both in India and abroad. Jehangir art gallery Mumbai.(Journey with Bull) 2013 Tao art gallery Mumbai.(The Eternal Icon) 2016

Nawal Kishore did his education in B.F.A. in 2000 & M.F.A. in 2004 in painting from Lucknow College of Arts & Crafts, Lucknow, (U.P.) & Art Appreciation course from State Museum, Lucknow (1999)
He worked on the Research Grant of Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi in Garhi art studio, New Delhi 2001-02
He has done 25 solo shows in India and abroad.
His works have been exhibited in a number of group shows at State Lalit Kala Academi, Lucknow, Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi, Gurgaon (Haryana), Noida, Allahabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Mumbai, Singapore, Dubai, America (U.S.A.) & in PRESIDENT HOUSE-NEW DELHI. His paintings were also a part of Auction at Art Bangalore (2012) org. by Christel House, Bangalore (AP) in 2012.

Well known artist Ajay Samir’s works in a black and white pallet, have glimpses of shadow and light, highlighted with poignant textures and colours on expressive facets of human experiences in iconic figuration.
Blending tradition with modern realities allowing hues to naturally adapt patterns, it oscillates around detailing textures, decorativeness of idioms, and linear motifs, symbolizing sensitivity of women, along with conjuring dream like memories of nature.
Man’s ability to conceptualize and express thoughts is seen in art, with elements of lines, colours, suggestive harmony, rhythmic movements, cultivating instinct and institution. These elements come to the fore in Ajay Kumar Samir’s exceptional art. One finds stylistic conceptual themes in lyrical narratives of human drama in his works.

Padmanabh Bendre acquired bachelors and masters degree in architecture and town planning from M. S. University of Baroda and Pune University respectively. Participated in short term courses in life drawing and monoprints from Phoenix Arizona U.S.A., being a self taught artist. Padmanabh Bendre had sixteen solo shows and six group shows from 1992 to 2015 in India and abroad. He had participated in the Sothbey’s auction in Newyork in 2007 and many exhibitions in Hongkong , Sanfrancisco, Phoenix, Toronto and Dubai. He is a trustee of Bendre Foundation and organized many artist camps in Mumbai. He was also jury for children’s international painting competition for Lions club Mumbai, Kalavart Nyas international art camp Ujjain and Gulbarga art college annual day art exhibition.

Born.Bishnupur,West Bengal. Graduated..B.Fine.from Santiniketan,1992
Post Graduation from Santiniketan,1994.
Freelance Artist.
Live in Tumkur Karnataka

1965 Born In Hooghly, West Bengal.
1989 Graduation in Painting from Govt.College of Art & Craft,Kolkata (First Class First)
1992 Post Graduate in Painting from Benaras Hindu University,Varanasi(First class)

Art to me is akin to Worship… It is a medium of self-realization! Art is my greatest passion, my way of relaxation and my very existence..I feel Life, Spirituality and Art are integrated with each other… The Art of painting ‘Buddha’ comes to me naturally… I derive a lot of peace and solace by painting the calm and serene face of ‘Buddha’. As a child I thankfully got a chance to travel a lot across Sikkim, Bhutan ,Nepal , Darjeeling ,Dharamshala,Yol, Dehradoon…etc ..and visited many Buddhist Monastries..and interacted with lot of Bhuddhists…this gave me plenty of knowledge and also inspired me and brought me closer to BUDDHA…

Pramod Reddy Gade (India) is a trained mural artist. He is prolific and sensitive in his approach to painting. His interest and devotion to Hindu religious iconography has influenced his work. There is a story to every painting Gade depicts in his work. The essence of these stories reveal in his work as layers that narrate episodes of myth associated to Hindu religion. His belief in the universal divinity as supreme power manifests by romanticizing the various episodes of the epic Ramayana and Mahabharata. Gade’s use of vibrant acrylics on canvas portray the divine grace that he attempts to express. The use of text and image in his work refers to the ancient manuscripts that adorn the Indian historical traditional Art. Pramod Reddy received his BFA in Painting from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad and his MFA in Mural from M.S. University, Baroda. He has exhibited widely across the globe.

Sanjukta Arun is a very renowned Contemporary Artist based in Mumbai. She has an MBA in Sales & Marketing and Dip in International business.
After a short stint in the Corporate sector, Sanjukta took to her inner calling and surrendered herself to Art, about 28 yrs back and made it her profession. She has carved a niche for herself in the art circuit . She has held over 65 exhibitions, both in India and overseas with 21 Solo shows, to her credit. Also 3 Online Solo shows. She was invited to showcase with Mojarto, an NDTV Venture recently. She also curates high profile Art shows. She works extensively for the benefit of Cancer Braveheart and Children with special needs.

Madan chitrakar (b 1947 ) is a senior artist and a leading art writer of the country. He has taken Nepali are beyond borders through his writing in many prestigious publications. He believes that a genuine work of art would and should always reveal the state of mind of an artist when the art is being created.So works of art – albeit created by the same artist but at different phases of time often appear differently revealing the changing mood of the artist.These shifting passages of time and creative exercises emanate an art journey of particular artist. He believes that his works also reveal the state of changing mind and the time when it is being created and the choices of elements narrate the changing circumstances. In other words, according the artist, a work of art must reveal a common natural phenomenon- called dynamic nature of human mind.

K.K. Karmacharya was born in 1948 in Kathmandu. He has completed his diploma from Judha Kala Pathshala (Nepal Arts School). And graduated in art from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. He started working in painting from 1965. He worked as a postage stamp designer in Nepal. He was the Member Secretary of the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and the President of the Artists Society of Nepal.He has exhibited many One Man shows as well as group shows at home and abroad. He has received numerous awards and honors from national and international organizations. Currently, the Government of Nepal has appointed him the Chancellor of the Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA).

Kalapremi Shrestha (Gopal Das Shrestha) is pioneering sculptor and ceramic artist who have established the essence of ceramic art in Nepal. He is doing experimental ceramic art works which are highly appreciated by critics and art collectors throughout the world. He is most probably the only artist who brought the raku technique in Nepal.
Kalapremi graduated from lalitkala campus, Nepal. He has over 45 years of experience in sculpture. But we can say he is natural born sculptor who grew up playing with clay. He has done 13 solo exhibitions under his belt and several group shows. He has participated more then 25 Art camps and workshops around the SAARC COUNTRIES and abroad.

Seema Sharma ji was born in Varanasi, India, in 1964. After her graduation in Painting (1988), she did her post-graduation (1990) in Print-making. She later earned a Ph.D. in History of Art in 1998 from Banaras Hindu University. She has participated in more than 70 shows held nationally and internationally in Japan, Korea, USA, UK, the Netherlands, France, India, Scotland, and Bangladesh. Between 1989 and 2017 her solo shows have been exhibited by different galleries in Nepal and India, most prominently in Siddhartha Art Gallery, Nepal, Gallery Ganesha, India, Sridharni Art Gallery, Delhi, Open Eye Gallery, Scotland, Juno Art Gallery, South Korea, and Jahangir Art Gallery, India. She has won the Best Etching Award at Art Fest Doral in Miami twice in 2013 and 2014. Likewise, she also won Best Exhibit Award in Amritsar in 1993. Her works depict the images of ancient Nepali sculpture and architecture, Nepali cultural rituals and Hindu and Buddhist mythologies. She does not present the mythical and religious images as they appear in reality, but combines them with free association. She is presently working as an Associate Professor at the Central
Department of Fine Arts in Tribhuwan University.

Birth:​​Village Post, Loharpatti, Mohattari, Nepal
Education:​L.C.M. (Laxmi Chandra Muhrarika) High School, Jaleshwar, Mohattari
B.F.A. in Painting (1988), Banaras Hindu University, India
M.F.A. in Painting (1991), Banaras Hindu University, India
Current
Position :​Lecturer of Painting at Central Department of Fine Arts, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Council Member (Head of painting department/former head of handicraft department) of Nepal Academy of Fine Arts M/s Sushma Rajbhandari was born in the 24^th of Sept 1968 A.D. in Kathmandu. She did her Master’s in Fine Art from Central Department, T.U., Kirtipur. She has done eighteenth solo national and international exhibitions and participated in more than one hundred fifty group art exhibitions. Furthermore, she has participated in more than seventy art workshops Nepal and abroad and is associated with thirty eight groups and organizations. She has been awarded with numerous accolades for her outstanding performances in art Nepal and abroad. She has also judged various art events and other competitions. She frequently writes articles on various topics including art and has created cartoons and illustration for various magazines. She has travelled to various parts of Nepal, and India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Korea, Japan, USA, Italy, Australia, German, France, Netherland, Switzerland, China, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Russia, Sri lanka, Qatar, South Korea, Philippines.

Kapil is a visual artist based in Nepal, who is regarded as the pioneer artist in establishing and expanding the scope of figurative/nude art in Nepal. He is committed in taking the figurative/nude art in Nepal, to a next level – for which has been working tirelessly to create an acceptance for figurative/nude art in Nepal.Kapil graduated from the University of Texas, at Arlington, USA in 2004. He has over 25 years of experience in figurative artworks. He has done 17 solo art exhibitions and more than 100 group exhibitions (including workshops, performances, and installations) in Nepal, The United States of America, and Australia. He has received several national and international awards, among which few selected are: Arniko National Youth Award in Nepal, Distinguished Alumni Award, People’s Choice Award, Who is Who Award, Best of the Show Award, and Special Achievement Award in the USA.

Trained as a painter, Saroj Bajracharya has been practicing diverse areas in arts such as writing, curating and art education. Three decades in art field with six solo exhibitions and numerous art shows and workshops to his credit, he has taken part in a curatorial residency project initiated by Korean National Museum of Art and Cultural Partnership Initiatives S Korea. He has also penned 3 important books on Nepali modern art.

Kishor Nakarmi is a visual artist born in 1978 April 2. He has completed Master’s in Fine Art from Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal. His professional experience includes being an art teacher at various schools. He is active in art field since 2004. He is involved in art sector for more than a decade. He specializes in painting but he also works in other medium. Till now he has exhibited three solo exhibitions in year 2005, 2009 and 2014.

Bipana Maharjan is a visual artist born in 1984 March 15. She has completed Master’s in Fine Art from Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal in 2012. Her professional experience includes being an art teacher at various schools and she is also a lecturer at Tribhuvan University. She is involved in art sector for more than a decade. She specializes in printmaking, nevertheless she also works in other medium. Till now she has two solo exhibitions to her credit-‘Journey with color’ in 2005 and ‘Tundal’ in 2012.

Roshan Pradhan is a visual artist based in Nepal. He did his Master’s in Fine Arts from Lalit Kala Campus. He is a freelance artist. He has over 25 years of experience in Art field. Since 1998, he has been doing both Solo and group exhibitions. He has held two Solo exhibitions at Nepal Art Council Gallery and other at Sakano Ueno Bijutsukan Art Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan.

He has collaborated in several group exhibitions notably at Rabindra Nath Tagore Center ( l. C. C. R), Kolkata, 14th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2010. Thousand Faces of Arts, National Taiwan Art Education Center, Art and Friendship International Exhibition, Asian Art Museum Fukuoka, Japan, Ratchadamneon Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok,Thailand, Friendship Art Exhibition Arma Museum Indonesian, Fabrianoinacquarello 2019, 10th International Watercolor museum, Italy, Buddhist Art Fair Beijing china, Korean and Nepal Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Nepal.

Pradhumna Shrestha  is a visual artist based in Nepal, his  Art the am are more concerned about the heritage, myth. His works are more earthly, and is more concerned at gradual erosion of his cultural values. To him, artistic architecture past of earlier valley stands as the embodiment of the rich culture past. He in his painting has sought to convey the vanishing heritage he love respect so much.  He also like to fusion his heritage with world Art. His works stands as the testimony of concerns.

Mangol Putra is my nick name to be known as a visual artist based in Nepal. I love realism and semi abstract art too but at this present time I am influenced to create surrealism based art more than realism and semi abstract art. And, as I am a civilian of eastern society and specially a member of a buddhist family, I am committed in taking surrealism based artworks with the harmony of traditional methods and motiefs of buddhist art in Nepal, to a next level for which have been working tirelessly to create an acceptance for my art in Nepal. I have completed my Proficiency Certificate Level in Fine Arts from Tribhuban University at Kathmandu, Nepal in 2002 and have over 18 years of experience in figurative artworks. During the years, I have participated in several national and international group exhibitions and workshops in Nepal, India, Japan and Thailand.

I am Rudra Bahadur Pun born and raised in the historic and beautiful city of Pokhara. Art has always been a very important part of my life. A away to express my feelings and emotions. I have always thought satisfaction can only be found living under concrete build and houses but now as l experienced the modern, fast developing world that has pushed us to a new era. I think we are gradually forgetting our origins and the beauty of mother nature.  I adore and cherish the beautiful memories that I had made as a kid living surrounding by nature and playing with nature.When I create art it is directly or indirectly related with nature.  As a nature lover l always try to capture beautiful scenery from nature and some  old traditional ways of living that once used to be a part of our daily life.