Born on 31st. July 1953, Nagpur
EDUCATION
1973 Graduated From Kanpur University
ONE MAN SHOWS
1974 ‘Ashok – 74’, one man show at Kanpur
1980 ‘Sun & the Beggar’, one man show at Nehru Hall, Azamgarh
1980 ‘Sun & the Beggar’, one man show at Academy Of Fine Arts,Calcutta
1983 ‘Amidst the Darkness’, one man show at Senate Hall, Allahabad University, Allahabad
1991 ‘Recent paintings’, one man show at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 ‘Ganesha’, one man show at Artists' Centre, Mumbai
1994 ‘Undulations’, one man show at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 ‘My city, my childhood’, one man show at Academy Of Fine Arts, Calcutta
1997 ‘Manushi & other paintings’, one man show at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Works On Paper, one man show at Admit One Art Gallery, New York, USA
2001 ‘Recent Works’, one man show at Katayun Gallery, Calcutta
2004 Selected Works, one man show at Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘Warli in Me and other paintings’, one man show at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 ‘Street children’, one man show at Hamail Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2007 ‘Retrospective 1997-2007’one man show at Kumar Art Gallery
2009 ‘Recent Works’ at Museum Art Gallery, (Organized by Kumar Gallery)
GROUP SHOWS
1973, 1974, 1978 and 1988 Annual Art Exhibitions of State Lalit Kala Academy, U.P.
1980 &1981; All India Exhibition of Paintings, organised by Academy Of Fine Arts, Calcutta,
1981 All India Exhibition of Contemporary Arts organised by Birla Academy of Art and Culture,
Calcutta
1977-78 'Art of Uttar Pradesh', organised jointly by the Central Lalit Kala Academy and State Lalit Kala Academy under Inter State Cultural Exchange Programme
1991 Silver Jubilee Exhibition of State Lalit Kala Academy U.P. in 1990. This exhibition was organised at Lucknow, Goa,Chennai, and Delhi
4th National Art Fair at Delhi
2001 Art of Bengal , jointly organised by Art Today Art Gallery and Gallery Katayun at Delhi
2001 Art Access-V exhibition, organised by Birla Academy of Art & Culture at Mumbai
2001 Autumnal Applauds, organised by Katayun Gallery, Calcutta
2001 Jewels of Contemporary Indian Art , organised by Concern India Foundation at Mumbai
2004 50 Years of Kumar Gallery ‘Spirit of the Century’, Kumar Gallery
2005 'Four Contemporary Artists from India' at Hamail Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2007 'Celebration', Kumar Art Gallery
2008 'Celebration', Kumar Art Gallery
2009 ‘ 1: Art Against AIDS ’ , exhibition organized by Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Celebration', Kumar Art Gallery
2011 Participated in the 3rd India Art Fair New Delhi
2012 ‘ The Palimpsest Portraits’, exhibition organized by Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
2013 Participated in the 5th India Art Fair New Delhi
2013 40 Years celebration Exhibition of Cymroza Art Gallery, Cymroza Art Gallery
OTHER PARTICIPATIONS
2005 Delivered a lecture on 'My Time, My Art' to the students and staff of the department of paintings at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
2006 Delivered a lecture on 'Commercialization and Contemporary Art' at the Department of Paintings at Allahabad University
2006 Attended the international seminar on 'Gender perspective in Asian Art' on the occasion of Asian Art Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2007 Evaluated the merit to select the awardees from the paintings submitted for the All India Exhibition,organized by State Lalit Kala Academy, U.P.
2007 Member of Jury in the All India Kalidasa Exhibition,organized by Kalidasa Academy, Ujjain, and M.P.
Lecture on “War Paintings” at Indian Institute of Mass Communications New Delhi, 2nd Lucknow Film Festival, Lucknow, Instituto Cervantes (Spanish Cultural Centre) New Delhi and in many other cities.
Lectures on Art at Satyavati College, Technia College of Arts, and Jawahar Lal Nehru University
New Delhi, and also in other cities like Ujjain, Bareilly, Ara, Ashok Nagar, Gorakhpur.Jaipur, Patna,Indore, Nainital, Lucknow, Kota, Bhilai.
Lecture on “Theatre and Painting” at Bhartendu Theatre Academy (BNA), Lucknow
Lecture on “Tebhaga Diary of Somnath Hore” at Kaustub Auditorium of Lalit Kala Academi New Delhi , organized by Anil Sinha Memorial Foundation.
2010 Lecture on ‘Tebhaga Diary and art of Somnath Hore ’ at Department of English, Delhi University ,
2011 Lecture on “Art of Chittaprosad and progressive trends in Indian Art” at Sixth Gorakhpur Film Festival
2011 Lecture on ‘Art of Rabindra Nath Tagore’ in December 2010 and ”Chittaprosad and progressive trends in Indian Art” in June at CHAUPAAL , S P Jain Auditorium , Bhawans Institute, Andheri Mumbai .
2011 Two days lecture series on ‘Art of Rabindra Nath Tagore’ and ‘Chittaprosad and progressive trends in Indian Art ‘ at Indore Press Club May
2011 Lecture on “Art of Chittaprosad and progressive trends in Indian Art” at Jaipur
2012 Lecture on “Art of Chittaprosad ” at the 13th National Conference of IPTA , Bhilai
2013 Lecture titled ‘Art Talk ’ at Government Degree College. Kota
2013 Lecture on ‘Art of Rabindra Nath Tagore’ at Vikram University , Ujjain
PUBLICATIONS
A collection of short stories ‘ Kuch kahaniya meri bhee’
A collection of short stories ‘Aais – Pais’
A novel ‘Monalisa Hans Rahi Thee’
A biography ‘ Badal Sircar – Jeevan Aur Rangmanch’
A novel ‘Shipra Ek Nadi Ka Naam Hai ’
A collection of essays ‘ Samkaleen Bharatiya Chitrakala : Husain Key Bahaney’
Articles on theatre published in Rang Prasang , Journal of theatre published from National School pf Drama.
Articles on painting published in all leading magazines and periodicals like Kala Dirgha, Baya, Pahal, Prabhat Khabar, Samavartan, etc. Stories published in Shakshatkar , Ravivaar, Manorama, Ganga,Hans, Baya, Vartamaan Sahitya etc.
Another collection of essays on art and separate monographs on the artists like Chittaprosad, Somnath Hore, Zainul Abedin, Ramkinkar Baij, Sadequain and Kamrul Hasan are under publication