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Veer Munshi – (B. 1974), Qualification

• B A from Kashmir University in 1976
• BFA (Painting) from M.S. University Baroda in 1981

Veer Munshi, was born and brought up in Kashmir Valley. He is one of the few painters in India today who is able to transform his experiences as an exiled refugee into the language of painting. Munshi was was forced to move to Delhi in 1990 when it was no longer safe for him to stay there. For Munshi, viewing pleasure plays no role in his objective as an artist. His work is very personal and at most times disturbing. It is his reaction to a specific event – in this case, the ongoing political situation in his home, Kashmir – and he wants everyone who views his work to understand what is happening there. In Veer Munshi’s paintings we see a reflection of the anguish and fear he felt whilst living in his own home, a fear that plagued so many other Kashmiris as well.

Kind of Work

His work has been inspired not only from the political and social situation in India but also his own real life experiences. He has the ability to transform real life experiences into the language of paintings. Veer Munshi is the quintessential artist – brooding, thinking and conceptualizing to create a new every time he touches his brush to canvas. The perspective is global yet the rooted-ness pan Indian – he carries the wistful beauty of Kashmir in his mind’s canvas along with the polished perfection of the Baroda School to immortalise all that he chooses to paint. Veer Munshi’s canvases present images which are intriguing.
The power of Munshi’s realistic approach is magnified by his ability to convey mood through composition and corresponding use of colour. The artist also manages to manipulate the colour he uses to suit the message of his paintings. Shades of red, orange and lush geen, otherwise warm and inviting, are given harsh and dark roles. His purples are potent and the shades of brown always cloak and muddy everything.

Siraj Saxena – (B. 1974), Qualification

• (B.F.A.) 1996, Govt. Institute of Fine Arts , Indore
Siraj Saxena born on January 30, 1974 in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh. He did his BFA in 1996 from Indore. Married to Agesh Nag (theatre Actress) 1999.

Kind of Work

One could call his works landscapes of a certain kind. Except that the land that is scarped is more an aspect of an inner geography, rather than an external location. There is no representation, though there are leaves, shapes, points, dark areas, and patches of colour. The familiar recedes and the wholly unfamiliar is not allowed to surface.
Collections

• Ministry of external affairs govt. of India, Roopankar,
• Bharat Bhawan Bhopal
• M.E. C. Art Gallery, New Delhi
• Asian Academy of Film & Television, Noida
• Lal Bagh Indore
• S.C.Z.C.C. Nagpur
• IWCAT Tokoname Japan
• Gallery Kyo-E-Gama Tokoname Japan
• Gangcey Srilanka
• Gandhi Peace Foundation New Delhi
• CESCI Madurai
• Pashupati Acrylon Ltd. New Delhi
• Rathi Super Steel Ltd, New Delhi
• Som Dutt Builders Ltd.., New Delhi
Many private collections in Thailand, Australia, France, Finland, U.A.E., Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, America, U.K., Belgium, Netherlands, U.S.A. Etc.

Rajendra Sisodiya – (B. 1982), Qualification

• Masters Degree in Hindi Literature.
• Masters Degree in Drawing & Painting (Continue), B.U., Bhopal.

The artist was born in 1982 in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh

Kind of Work

Abstract form of tribal folk art.
Collection :

Mumbai, Delhi, Bhopal, Indore.

Piyush Sharma – (B. 1978), Piyush Sharma is an Ameature Artist.
Exhibitions & Shows

Solo Shows
• “Sketch” Show at Lal- Bagh Indore.
• 2005 : Exhibition at Academy of Fine Arts – Amritsar

Group Shows
• 2006 : Group Show at Palam Court Art Gallery
• 2006 : Group Show at PSK, Shakarpur, Delhi
• 2006 : Group Show at SPACE Art Gallery, Delhi
• Group Show at Academy of Fine Art, Delhi
• 2005 : “Samkon” Group Show at Devlalikar Kala Vithika, Indore
• 2002-04 : “RAZA” Award Exhibition – 2002, 2004.
• 2004 : “VINYAS” Group Show at Devlalikar Kala Vithika,
• 2003 : 75th Anniversary Group Show of Gifa Indore
• 2002 : State Exhibition M.P.Kala Parishad Indore
• 2002 : “Rupankar Varshiki” Bharat Bhavan Bhopal
• 1997-02 : “GIFA” Annual Exhibition

Camps
• “Pal Aur Rang” A painting CAmp at Bank of Holy Narmada,Pathrad.
• Landscape Camp At Dewas (MP).

Others
• Designing for Smith Sonion Folk Life Festival (Washington DC) at Delhi.
• Design for World Craft Fair (Barcelona) at Delhi.

Mohan Malviya – Born in 1969, the artist comes from a region in Madhya Pradesh which still among other things, a vital tradition of tribal creativity. To understand his works, one needs to understand his circumstances and his life that has mouled his experiences. A child of the forests, Mohan was born in and grew up in a village by the Narmada river in Nimar, in Madhya Pradesh in a family of farmers. Mohan Malviya is an artist who seems to be mapping the mysterious in his canvases not so much to fathom or measure it but to affirm it. His art at one level is a passionate apprehension of mystery.
While it is noticed that the new abstract art in India has largely emerged through the young artists of Madhya Pradesh whose inspiration has come from Sayed Haider Raza and J Swaminathan, it has to be noted that a rich convention of both ritualistic and non-ritualisitic kind of abstraction has been vitally present in the folk and tribal traditions of Madhya Pradesh. Mohan’s work is a powerful reminder of that legacy and inexhaustible resource.

Qualification
• 2000 M.F.A. from I.K.S.V.V., Khairagarh, Chhattisgarh

Kuldeep Singh is an amateur artist who has completed his MFA from I.K.S.V.V., Khairagarh, Chhattisgarh. He has participated in no. of National & State level events & exhibitions

Kind of Work
The art works are basically abstract.

Exhibitions & Shows
Solo & Group Exhibitions
• 2007 Global Arts Village,
• 2007 Ghitorni, Palm court art gallery,
• 2007 Indian habitat Centre, by India art forum, New Delhi,
• 2006 Art Farrago, Gurgaun
• 2006 Indian Academy of fine art, Amritsar A I F A C S, New Delhi
• 2005 Ashoka Hotel
• 2002 & 2003 Aasish Balram Nagpal Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2001 Mahakosal Kala Parisad, Raipur
• 2000 I.K.S.V.V., Khairagarh, Chhattisgarh
• 2000 Rastriya Lalit Kala Kendra, Bhubaneswar
• 1999 Model Exhibition, B H U, Varanasi
• 1998 National Youth Festival, Punjab University, Chandigarh West Zone Youth Festival, Nagpur University
• 1998 Concoction, Rastriya Lalit Kala Kendra, Bhubaneswar Participation

Harish Ojha – (B. 1984), Qualification
•B.F.A., University of Allahabad
Born in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Harish Ojha is an amateur artist who has completed his BFA from University of Allahabad. He has participated in no. of National & State level events & exhibitions.

Kind of Work :-
He works on Folk Life.
“Folk life is the real life. The traditional and the cultural life of a place lies in folks. Folk life is generally supposed to be related to the myths, rituals, festivals, and magical or magico — religious practices of the people. As for me, I always try to communicate with this aspect of life through my paintings where I try to create a fair like atmosphere with my form and colour.”

Avadesh Yadav :-
Qualification – • M.FA. , Government Institute of Fine Arts, Indore ( MP).
• M.FA. , Government Institute of Fine Arts, Indore ( MP).
Collections

USA, UK, Dubai, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, Holland, France, Thailand, Germany, Canada, Japan, Bulgaria, Egypt, Kenya. And Many More Private Collections In India & Abroad.
Solo Exhibitions
• 2004 : Does She Appear in Grey, Daira Centre for Arts and Culture, Hyderabad.
• 2000 : DUO, Alliance Francaise DE Bhopal.

Kishor Shinde is a celebrated contemporary Indian artist known for his deeply expressive and abstract visual language. Born in 1958, Shinde earned his Diploma in Painting from the prestigious M.S. University, Baroda, in 1981. His career spans over four decades, marked by a continuous evolution of style and form, rooted in the exploration of rhythm, energy, and the metaphysical.
Shinde’s canvases are dynamic compositions—textured, layered, and emotionally resonant. Though abstract in form, his works are intentional in their use of color and gesture, channeling a cathartic energy that bridges the spiritual and the sensual. As the artist explains, “While standing in front of the white canvas space, the inner eye opens… abstract versions of rhythm build visual syllables and symbols… myriad colors fill the spaces. I am painting in a cathartic fervor.”
A recipient of multiple accolades, Shinde was awarded the National Award for Painting by the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in 1998, and the Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi Award in 1978. His works are part of prominent public collections, including the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and the Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi

Born in 1980 in Jaipur, Amit Kalla has done his masters in art & aesthetics from J.N.U, New Delhi. His work grows from his education in Ancient Indian art and aesthetics. He paint and write poetry blending elements of each into the other always exploring the deep forces which have created my culture and those which unite all of humanity.

His work practices are highly responsive to the environment they are produced in. His most recent solo show with a well known photographer explored the philosophical concept of The Seer and the Seen. He has traveled and worked collaboratively and spontaneously with a number of different artists across India.
In Amit’s words, “I feel different ways at different times-which yes I do face to face, sometimes in the shape of rainbow / sometimes it is semi-shadowed / sometimes a solitary chant / sometimes a magical hot hues/ sometimes faded expressions / sometimes contrasts, there is a certain Naivety in my painting style, but I use this as a non conformity to become more of an individualist using more imagination.”