Surendra Pal Joshi
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Surendra pal Joshi was an Indian artist known for his use of experimental techniques in
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and murals. His works are in the collection of
Uttara Museum of Contemporary Art The Uttara Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA), located at MDDA Complex in Dehradun, is Uttarakhand’s first art museum dedicating multi-dimensional artworks in the memory of the 2013 North India floods (Kedarnath disaster). The museum exhibits v ...
in Dehradun, India.


Early life

Joshi was born on 23 July 1955 in Dehradun,
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. In 1980, he joined Lucknow College of Arts and Crafts in Uttar Pradesh and completed his bachelor’s degree in fine arts afterwards.


Career

Joshi moved to Jaipur and later in 1988 started working as an assistant professor at the Rajasthan School of Art. In 2008, he took voluntary retirement (VRS) from work and continued working on paintings. Joshi had done 22 solo exhibitions in his time and created several murals. His abstract paintings and murals have received many awards at national and international levels. Some of his designed murals are displayed at places like Indian Oil Corporation in New Delhi,
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in Mumbai, and
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in
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. In 1997, Joshi received fellowship from Britain to design murals in
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, UK. In 2015, Joshi started working at
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building complex in Dehradun to give shape to the state's first art museum,
Uttara Museum of Contemporary Art The Uttara Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA), located at MDDA Complex in Dehradun, is Uttarakhand’s first art museum dedicating multi-dimensional artworks in the memory of the 2013 North India floods (Kedarnath disaster). The museum exhibits v ...
. The museum was inaugurated by state’s Chief Minister in late 2017, a few months before Joshi’s demise. The museum includes his sculptures, paintings, murals, installations, digital-print photographs, and videos constituting his reflections and responses to the devastation and rescue efforts he had witnessed during visits to the ravaged mountains in the aftermath of the
2013 North India floods In June 2013, a mid-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. The rainfall received that month was far great ...
.


Works


Installation Art

* ''Taana Baana''. * ''The Abode''.


Sculpture

* ''My Salute (helicopter)''. * ''Music of our Time (helmet)''. * ''Dhol-Damau''. * ''Paani''. * ''Ghilda''.


Awards and honours

*National Art Award,
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, New Delhi. *Asian Cultural Centre for
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. * Gold Medal, UNESCO. *All India Award,
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Lalit Kala Academy. *Fellowship for Mural Design by the
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. * Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award,
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.


Personal life

Joshi was married to his wife Sangeeta. They have two children, son Parichay and daughter Tanya. Joshi died on 12 June 2018 while battling cancer at a private hospital in Jaipur. It came as a shock for several people in the artist community.


References


External links


India's first disaster museum opens in Dehradun, The Times of India, 2017
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Joshi Pal, Surendra 1955 births 2018 deaths 20th-century Indian sculptors Artists from Dehradun Indian male painters 20th-century Indian male artists