Ganesh Haloi

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Ganesh Haloi
Ganesh Haloi - Kolkata 2012-10-03 0542.JPG
Ganesh Haloi
Born1936
Jamalpur
NationalityIndian
Known forVisual Art

Ganesh Haloi is an India-based visual artist, curator, and author.[1][2]

Early life[]

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[]

  • 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[]

  • Manojmohan Basu Smarak Samman for his autobiography Amar Katha[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ganesh Haloi's work on display at Kolkata's Akar Prakar". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  2. ^ "An unflinching gaze". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Artist Ganesh Haloi gets state award for autobiography". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Veteran Indian artist represents modern Indian art in a two-city exhibition in Europe". The Indian Express. 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  5. ^ Pioneer, The. "Memories on canvas". The Pioneer. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  6. ^ "Form and Play: A new exhibition highlights how Ganesh Haloi's paintings oscillate between the seen and the sensed". Firstpost. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Bengali beauties on canvas". The Asian Age. 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
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