Paramjit Singh (born 1935) is an Indian artist.
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Paramjit Singh
He was born in
Amritsar
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, India.
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Auctions
Currently he lives in
New Delhi
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, India. Singh is married to fellow painter
Arpita Singh
Arpita Singh (''née'' Dutta; born 22 June 1937) is an Indian artist. Known to be a figurative artist and a modernist, her canvases have both a story line and a carnival of images arranged in a curiously subversive manner. Her artistic approach ...
, with whom he had a daughter, the artist
Anjum Singh.
He earned his Bachelors and PhD in Fine Arts from Delhi Polytechnic in 1958 and 1962, respectively. For nearly three decades Singh was a Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi.
''
The Seventh Walk'' (2013), an
experimental
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documentary film
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by Indian filmmaker
Amit Dutta
Amit Dutta (born 5 September 1977 in Jammu) is an Indian experimental filmmaker and writer. He is considered to be one of the most significant contemporary practitioners of experimental cinema, known for his distinctive style of filmmaking rooted ...
explores the
charcoal drawings of Singh.
Selected exhibitions
*2014:
Talwar Gallery,
Shifting Terrains'' New York, NY, US
*2013: Lalit Kala Academy Galleries, ''The Drawing Wall,'' New Delhi, India
*2011: India Habitat Centre, ''The Lost Sparrow,'' New Delhi, India
*2010: Vadehra Art Gallery, ''Beauty & Loss – A Landscape Diary,'' New Delhi, India
*2009: Center for International Modern Art, ''Shall Return Again...,'' Calcutta, India
*2005: Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
*2004
Talwar Gallery New York, NY, US
*2002: Talwar Gallery,
Rajendra Dhawan and Paramjit Singh: Inner/Outer'' New York, NY, US
*1996: Gallery Chemould, Bombay, India
*1995: Vadhera Gallery, New Delhi, India
References
External links
Next Projection, "MoMA Documentary Fortnight 2014 Review: The Seventh Walk (2013)," February 2014.Nature's Labyrinth, "Conversation with Paramjit Singh," 2007.
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1935 births
Living people
Indian contemporary painters
Artists from Amritsar
Indian male painters
20th-century Indian painters
Painters from Rajasthan
20th-century Indian male artists
21st-century Indian male artists