Ganesh Haloi
Ganesh Haloi is an India-based visual artist, curator, and author. Art has evolved through a series of transactions from pure landscape to the innerscapes. Even though it is abstract, Haloi's works and his motifs have precise associations with the artist's psyche, his experiences and the upheavals that have shaped him and his point of view.
Ganesh Haloi
Biswarup Ganguly · CC BY 3.0
- Field
- Visual Art
- Name
- Ganesh Haloi
- Birthplace
- Jamalpur
- Born
- 1936
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- Bangla
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Ganesh Haloi is an India-based visual artist, curator, and author. Art has evolved through a series of transactions from pure landscape to the innerscapes. Even though it is abstract, Haloi's works and his motifs have precise associations with the artist's psyche, his experiences and the upheavals that have shaped him and his point of view.
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Ganesh Haloi (born 1936) is a painter, a national of the British Raj and the Dominion of India. The painter lived in Kolkata.
Languages used include Bangla. Works are held at Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Gallery of Modern Art.
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Biography
Biography
"Everything begins in pain," says Haloi. He maintains high standards craftsmanship and his construction of tress, houses and the ambience of Kolkata that seems murky with a suppressed strength.
Ganesh Haloi and Sudip Roy in Kolkata
Biswarup Ganguly
Ganesh Haloi (born: 1936) in Jamalpur, Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh. He moved to Calcutta after the Partition in 1950. He graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft in Calcutta in 1956. The next year he joined the Archaeological Survey of India to make copies of the Ajanta murals. After seven years' involvement in the work, Haloi returned to work in Calcutta. He taught at the Governme
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Key facts
• Field — Visual Art • Name — Ganesh Haloi • Birthplace — Jamalpur • Born — 1936
Early life
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.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• Form and Play (Kolkata and New York) • Documenta 14 (Athens 2016, Kassel 2017) • Poetics of Abstraction (Kolkata January 2018) • Art: Bengal Now (Delhi January 2020) • Sense and Sensation: Paintings in Ink and Brush at Akar Prakar. Curatorial Advisor: Debashish Banerji (2021) • The Architectonics of Form: Scrolls by Ganesh Haloi. Curated by Jesal Thacker at Akar Prakar, Kolkata, 2022
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1936
Ganesh Haloi was born on 9 February 1936.
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- Kolkata
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- “Ganesh Haloi”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q16345336: Ganesh Haloi
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Awards and recognition
• Manojmohan Basu Smarak Samman for his autobiography Amar Katha
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- 1.Ganesh Haloi's work on display at Kolkata's Akar Prakar. The Economic Times.
- 2.An unflinching gaze. www.telegraphindia.com.
- 3.Artist Ganesh Haloi gets state award for autobiography. www.telegraphindia.com.
- 4.Veteran Indian artist represents modern Indian art in a two-city exhibition in Europe. The Indian Express. 2017-05-16.
- 5.Ganesh Haloi. Akar Prakar.
- 6.Pioneer, The. Memories on canvas. The Pioneer.
- 7.Form and Play: A new exhibition highlights how Ganesh Haloi's paintings oscillate between the seen and the sensed. Firstpost. 16 January 2019.
- 8.Das, Soumitra. In Ganesh Haloi's expo, geometric forms get a life of their own. The Hindu. 2018-01-13. 0971-751X.
- 9.Bengali beauties on canvas. The Asian Age. 2020-01-25.
- 10.Sense & Sensation. Akar Prakar.
- 11.Thistledown in the wind. www.telegraphindia.com.
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