Sudhir Patwardhan

Sudhir Patwardhan is an Indian contemporary painter and a practising radiologist.

Sudhir Patwardhan
Artist Sudhir Patwardhan at Kochi-Muziris binelle 2014
Born
Maharashtra
EducationArmed Forces Medical College
OccupationArtist

Early life

Patwardhan was born in Pune, Maharashtra in 1949. In 1972 he graduated in Medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. He moved to Mumbai in 1973 and worked as a radiologist in Thane from 1975 to 2005.[1]

Career

After 2005 he became a full-time artist. The city-scape features prominently in his canvases, and reflect the agonies of the urban middle class and poor.[2] Patwardhan’s works are in the permanent collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai; Roopankar Museum, Bhopal; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, Jehangir Nicholson Collection, Mumbai; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts and other prominent private and public collections.

International exhibitions
  • 'Aspects of Modem Indian Art' Oxford, U.K. 1982
  • Contemporary Indian Art, festival of India, London, 1982
  • Seven Indian Artists, Hamburg, West Germany, 1982
  • Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, New York, 1985
  • Festival of India, Center George Pompidou, Paris 1986
  • 'Coupe de Coeur' Geneva, 1987
  • 'Gadyaparva Exhibition' Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (1990), 'Parallel Perceptions', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (1993)
  • 'Contemporary Indian Painting from the Herwitz Family Collection Part I, auction by Sotheby's, New York, USA (1995, 96)
  • 'Contemporary Indian Painters 96' Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1996)
  • 'Charcoal & Conte' Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai (1997), Icons of the Millennium (Lakeeren Art Gallery), Mumbai
  • 'Extreme Gourmet' Indigo, Lakeeren, Mumbai and Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK (2001)
  • "Sudhir Patwardhan - Paintings and Drawings - Main Page". sudhirpatwardhan.com.
  • "Sudhir Patwardhan". guildindia.com.
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References
  1. "Sudhir Patwardhan". Saffronart.
  2. "ArtAsiaPacific: Where I Work Sudhir Patwardhan". artasiapacific.com.
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