Ganesh Haloi
BORN EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS PARTICIPATIONS HONORS AND AWARD ABOUT THE ARTIST Insulation is the most important factor in these paints. You are alone with nature and then you become part of it, you participate in it. The art of Ganesh Haloi has evolved through a series of transactions from pure landscapes to interior landscapes. Although abstract, Haloi's works and motifs have precise associations with the artist's psyche, his experiences, and the disorders that have shaped him and his point of view. It all starts with pain, says Haloi. He maintains high standards of craftsmanship and his construction of trees, houses and the ambiance of Calcutta seems murky with a suppressed force. Some of his unforgettable works include natural landscapes painted on rice paper. Born in 1936 in East Bengal, now Bangladesh, he migrated to Calcutta during the partition. He graduated from the Government College of Art & Craft Kolkata in 1956 and joined the Archaeological Survey of India as a senior artist. He was appointed to work at Ajanta from 1957 to 1963. He then joined Art College Kolkata as a professor in 1964. His early work includes a study of miniatures in Banasthali Rajasthan and copying frescoes from Ajanta for six years. While his early works are dominated by landscapes, his later paintings reflect his introverted and intelligent temperament. Haloi's work shows his concern with themes of devastation, calamity, and resilience. Born in a district that is now part of Bangladesh, his earliest memories of the region are of Brahmaputra and the delta region mixed with the communal holocaust and partition. I try to fit the irregular movements of life into the artificial boundaries of the paintings, he says. His perspective is that of a victim but tempered with a strong dose of philosophy and a calm acceptance. His use of colors is dense and evokes reflective memories with spontaneous ease. Ganesh Haloi has won several awards including the Gold Medal in Memory of the late R. N. Chakraborty (former principal) of the Government College of Art, Kolkata (1956), the seven silver medals of the University of Kolkata 1953, 1954, 1955. Gold medals from the Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, and 1970. Notification - We do not usually display Ganesh Haloi's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.
February 9, 1936 Jamalpur Bangladesh
1952-56 Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta
2016 Ganesh Haloi in Linear Abstraction, Akar Prakar Art Advisory, New Delhi
2016 Ganesh Haloi The Eye of Feeling, Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2013 Ganesh Haloi in Linear Abstraction, Akar Prakar, Kolkata; Bengal Fine Arts Gallery, Dhaka
2011 Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi presented by Akar Prakar, Kolkata, and Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
2007 Unwanted, Sanskriti Gallery, Kolkata
2007 Organized by Art Musings, Mumbai at Art Musings, Mumbai and Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2006 A sublime art, Aicon Gallery, New York
2006 Seeking Steps, Akar Prakar, Calcutta
2003 Works on paper, online exhibition at Saffron Art
2000 Lakeeren Gallery, Bombay
1962 First solo exhibition, Artistry House, Calcutta.
2012 Aqua, Beyond Gallery, Mumbai
2012 One eye sees, the other feels, The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2011 Form and Formlessness, Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon
2010-11 Figure Landscape, Part Two, Aicon Gallery, London
2010 Above and Beyond, Aicon Gallery, London
2010 Essential, eclectic, ephemeral, The Harrington Mansions, Kolkata
2009-10 Discerning Form, Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 Charting Time, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 Spirit of Abstraction, Mahua Art Gallery, Kolkata
2008 Eternal Varanasi, K2 Gallery, Kolkata
2007 12 artists, organized by Akar Prakar, Kolkata at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 Black and White, Kanishka Gallery, Calcutta
2007 Journey 2, a charity art exhibition for passages, Art and Soul, Mumbai
2007 Art for Concern, 2007 Annual Charity Auction
2007 Exhibition on Art India Times
2006 Space, Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 Ambadas, Haloi, Dhawan, Kolte, Tun Sein, Galerie Muller & Plate, Munich
2005 Drishti Vision, Contemporary Indian Artists, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
2005 Abstract Contemporary Indian Art, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
2003 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
2002 Uncertainty in Certainty, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
2002 Ganesh Haloi Uncertainty in Certainty A Journey, Societe Asiatique of Multiple Art and Artists, Gurgaon
Answer from 1999, Ganesh Haloi
1997, 1998, 1999 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1998 Art World, Chennai
1996 CIMA International Modern Art Center, Kolkata
1996 Escape Gallery, New Delhi.
1996 Lakeeren Gallery, Bombay
1995 Bose Pacia Modern, New York
1995 CIMA International Modern Art Center, Calcutta
1995 Watercolor A Broad Spectrum - II, with Prabhakar Barwe, C. Douglas, Prabhakar Kolte, M. Rai, Vivan Sundaram, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1994 Trends and Images, CIMA International Modern Art Centre, Calcutta
1994 Indian Contemporary Art, Maya Gallery, Hong Kong
1993 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Wounds, CIMA Center for International Modern Art, Calcutta and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi.
1992 Alliance Francaise, New Delhi.
1992 Conflict, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta
1991 Contemporary Indian Artists Multiculturalism and Internationalism through Art, Melbourne
1980 Four contemporary artists from West Bengal, Calcutta.
2005 As Inside and Outside, with Prabhakar Kolte, Art Musings, Mumbai
2011 Manifestations 5, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Manifestations 5, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Moderns, Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in collaboration with Embassy of India, Amman, Jordan
2008 Shanghai Art Fair, China presented by Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
2007 Synchromy 4, Akar Prakar, Calcutta
2007 12th Harmony Art Exhibition, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2006 Building Bridges, 17th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallerie Ganesha and The Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi
2005 Synchromy 2, Akar Prakar, Calcutta
1967-95 Participated in the exhibitions of the Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Calcutta, and the Indian Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1971-95 he Exhibited with the Society of Contemporary Artists
1967,79,87 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
The late R.N. Chakraborty Memorial Gold Medal
Seven silver medals from the Calcutta University Institute
Seven AFA gold medals
Cash prize, from the Lathan Foundation USA
Ministry of Health Government of India
Rabindra Bharati. Siromani Puraskar
Member of SCA since 1971
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