Sudhir Patwardhan
Born 1949 Pune, Maharashtra
Education 1972 Graduated in Medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune Self –Taught
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2007-08 Citing The City, Traveling Exhibition at Sakshi Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Gallerie 88, Kolkata; Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi and Red Earth Gallery, Vadodara 2004 India Habitat Centre, New Delhi ABC Gallery, Vadodara Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2002 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2001 Sakshi Gallery, Bengaluru 1999 Design Centre, Thane, Maharashtra Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1995 Gallery Chemould, Kolkata 1994 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1992 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1990 Art Heritage, New Delhi 1989 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1988 Pokharan, Thane, Maharashtra 1984 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1979 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Art Heritage, New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin, Emile Lowe Gallery, Hempstead Tracing Time, Bodhi Art, Mumbai 2008 Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture, in association with Bodhi Art, and supported by the British Council, Kunststiftung NRW and the Provence of Antwerp at Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MuKHA), Belgium Multiple Modernities: India, 1905-2005, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA 2007 Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art, Kusntmuseum Bern, Switzerland Faces of Indian Art, Art Alive Gallery at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Inaugural show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai Art on the Wing Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara Celebration Project 88, Mumbai Greenscape BNHS Auction, Mumbai Art Fusion Show Nehru Center, Mumbai Gateway Bombay, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass, USA
Yuva Parivartan, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai 2006-07 Indian Art - Inventing / Inverting Traditions, Grosvenor Vadehra, London 2006 Shadow Lines Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Art for Conservation, Mall Galleries, London A work of Art, a work on paper, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai Modern Indian works on Paper, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey Art for Concern, Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai, Bangalore El Filo del Deseo - Arte Reciente en India, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Mexico 2005 Joie de Vivre, Art Konsult, New Delhi Bhupen among Friends, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai Still-Life, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi Grey, Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata New Paradigma II, Gallery Threshold, Kolkata Bicentenary Celebrations Auction, Asiatic Society, Mumbai Ardhanarishvara, Tao Gallery, Mumbai 2004 Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Asia Society, New York Visions of Landscape, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai Selected works from the Jehangir Nicholson Collection, Mumbai Paintings from the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Mumbai, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman The World of Serigraphs, Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara 2003 Diverge, Forty years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai Exhibition organized by Parkinson’s Disease Foundation of India, Mumbai Tiranga, Jindal Foundation for Performing and Creative Arts, Indian Habitat Center, New Delhi Works on Paper, Gallery Threshold , India Habitat Center, New Delhi Men Against Violence and Abuse, Artists’ Centre, Mumbai Exhibition organized by Gandhara Art Gallery at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi A Celebration of Color, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Said & Unsaid, Apparao Galleries, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2002 Post-Independence Indian Art from Sunanda and Umesh Gaur Collection, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S.A Icons and Symbols in Indian Art, Center of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata Indian Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S.A. 2001 The Human Factor, The Guild, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Ideas and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai In Conversation, Gallery Espace, New Delhi Figures in My Mind, Gallery Espace, New Delhi Osian's The Passionate Detachment' auction, Mumbai Century City, Tate Modern, London 2000 Human Figure, Gallery 42, New Delhi Millennium Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai Chitram Art Gallery, Kochi
Extreme Gourmet, Indigo, Lakeeren, Mumbai Their Story, VAHI Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Early Works, Fine Art Company, Mumbai 1999 The Art of Charity, Sir J.J Parsee Benevolent Institute, J.J School of Art, Mumbai Ideas and Images, Critics Choice, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai Elephanta Project, INTACH, Mumbai The World Is Round And Time Is Cyclical, Art Today, New Delhi Icons of the Millennium, Lakeeran Art Gallery, Mumbai Vadehra Art Gallery and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1998 Anniversary Exhibition, Chitram Art Gallery, Kochi Indian Contemporary Art, Vadehra Art Gallery and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Artists for Sustainable Development, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 1997 Charcoal and Conte, Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai Epic Reality, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston The intuitive Logic II, Exhibition and Auction, Mumbai The Intuitive Logic, A Festival of Contemporary Painting, Mumbai Indian Contemporary Art- Post-Independence, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Ashraya, Bangalore Image Beyond Image, Glenberra Art Museum, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai 1996 Contemporary Indian Painters 96, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Urban Signals, Shifting Images, Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai; Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata Exhibition Felicitating Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Contemporary Indian Painting from the Herwitz Family Collection Part II, auction by Sotheby's, New York A Tree In My Life, The Village Art Gallery, New Delhi 1995 Art India Now, Bose Pacia, New York Mumbai RPG, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Art for CRY, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Postcards for Gandhi Sahamat, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and New Delhi Contemporary Indian Painting from the Herwitz Family Collection Part I, auction by Sotheby's, New York 1994 Drawing 94, Gallery Espace, New Delhi 1993 Trends and Images, Center of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata Shraddha Samarpan, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Parallel Perceptions, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 1992 Journeys within Landscapes, Sakshi Gallery , Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1990 An Artistic Riot, Sophia Art Gallery, Mumbai Gadyaparva Exhibition, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 1989 Artists Alert, exhibition for Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, New Delhi Timeless Art, exhibition and auction by Sotheby's, Mumbai The Richness of Spirit, Egyptian Academy, Rome 1988 The Richness of Spirit, National Museum, Kuwait Art for CRY, Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi and Bangalore
1986 Group exhibition organized, by Altaf, New Habib High School, Mumbai 1985 2nd Conference, All India League for Revolutionary Culture, Dhanbad Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India , New York Thirty Artists in the Collection of Richardson Hindustan, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1984 Ten Artists, Gallery 7, Mumbai 1982 Seven Indian Artists, Worpswede, Hanover, Hamburg, Bayreuth, Braunsweig, Germany Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal 1981 Place for People, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Ravindra Bhavan, New Delhi 1979 Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad, Bhopal
Works In The Following Collections Roopankar, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi Art Heritage, Delhi Punjab University Museum, Chandigarh Jehangir Nicholson Museum, NCPA, Mumbai Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kochi Deutsch Bank, Mumbai Heart, Neville Tuli Foundation, Mumbai Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. USA. and other private collections in India and abroad.
Film On The Artist 'Saacha' a film about a poet – Narayan Surve, a painter – Sudhir Patwardhan, and a city – Mumbai. Directors : Anjali Monteiro and K P Jayasankar The artist lives and works in Thane