Paramjit singh artist india

Born in in Amritsar, Punjab, Paramjit Singh attended the Delhi School of Art at Delhi Polytechnic. He was a founder member of the ‘Unknown’, a group of artists and sculptors in Delhi in

Singh had his first solo show at the Triveni Gallery, New Delhi, in , and has had numerous solo exhibitions since, including Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (, , ); Talwar Gallery, New York (); the City Art Center, Hong Kong (); the Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh (); the Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata (); Bodhi Art, Singapore (); and Grosvenor Vadehra, London (), among others.

In , he went on to receive the National Award from the Lalit Kala Akademi, shortly after which he worked in print-making in Oslo, Norway, for a few years. He has served as a researcher, professor and honored professor emeritus at Jamia Milia University, New Delhi.

The artist lives and works in New Delhi.

Close association with natur during Paramjit Singh's growing years, and reading art books in the library of Khalsa College, New Delhi, where his grandfather was-senior vice principal, had a profound influence on him, leading to his emergence as a landscape painter.

Born in Amritsar on 23 February , he studied art at Delhi Polytechnic from where he completed a diploma in About a decade later, he went to Norway to study printmaking at Atelier Nord.

Superbly rendered hues and masterly brushstrokes lend a unique luminosity to his dense and mystic landscapes, which range from purely realistic to abstract, evolving in three different phases.

The first phase was his art school period, when he began painting landscapes, with an active interest in portraiture and figuration. In the second phase, he painted still-lifes and landscapes, and the third comprised mainly landscapes that show experimentation with techniques. Singh’s mature works feature an orchestration of colo

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Paramjeet Singh

Silkscreens remained a favourite with Paramjeet Singh as the smoothness of the medium allowed him to blend colours in an unobtrusive manner.

Born and brought up in Jamshedpur in present-day Jharkhand, where career prospects appeared limited to engineering or medicine, his parents had hoped he would study architecture, but destiny had other plans as a friend took Singh to a local art class, which spurred his interest in drawing and painting.

He moved to New Delhi to study at College of Art. Upon graduation, he worked for an advertising agency for two years and returned to his alma mater as a lecturer, which allowed him to devote time to his passion. He benefitted greatly from discussions with the charismatic printmaker and colleague, Jagmohan Chopra, who turned his interest towards silkscreen printing. The medium appealed to Singh as it wasn’t being practiced by many artists at that time, and it allowed him the scope to experiment. He also explored different genres