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                                    Born in Kolkata in 1935, Sakti Burman studied at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, and later at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Burman uses pointillism and a marbling technique achieved by blending oils with acrylics to create fresco-like works on paper and canvas. Burman’s paintings often evoke a surrealist feel, referencing multiplicities of time and place. His art drew extensively from Hindu and European...Read More
                                    Born in Kolkata in 1935, Sakti Burman studied at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, and later at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Burman uses pointillism and a marbling technique achieved by blending oils with acrylics to create fresco-like works on paper and canvas. Burman’s paintings often evoke a surrealist feel, referencing multiplicities of time and place. His art drew extensively from Hindu and European mythology, as well as from the artist’s own memories. Suggesting surrealism, his paintings are populated by humans, animals and cityscapes that are dreamlike in appearance. His defining oeuvre owes largely to his technique of marbling, which he arrived at after years of experimentation. Burman travelled to Italy in 1958 and his encounter with the frescoes of Giotto, Piero de la Francesca and Simone Martini inspired him to assimilate their monumentality and textures in his works.
 
 The artist had his first solo exhibition in 1954 in Kolkata, and has since exhibited widely across the world including at venues like the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Piccadilly Gallery, London; Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris; Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan; and Galerie Sagar, Zurich.
 
 Burman has participated in several shows, some of the most recent including The Beholder’s Share by Jehangir Art Gallery and Art Musings in Mumbai in 2016; A Private Universe  by Art Alive Gallery in New Delhi in 2015; Rituals and Reasons: Invoking the Sensual in Art, at Apparao Galleries in Chennai in 2014; The Wonder of it All, a retrospective exhibition by Pundole Art Gallery and Apparao Galleries in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai in 2012, Archetype and Enraputured Gaze  at Aicon Gallery in London and New York in 2009; Faces of Indian Art  organised by Art Alive at the Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi; Understanding Oneness in Diversity  at Kitab Mahal, Mumbai; An Evening in Paris …Rome…London  at Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata; and Resonance  organised by Art Musings at Museum Gallery, Mumbai, all in 2007. Burman was awarded the Medaille d’Argent au Salon de Montmorency and the Prix des Etrangers, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1956.
 
 Sakti Burman lives and works in Paris.
                                    
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                                    Born
 1935
                                      Kolkata
 
 Education
 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris
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                                        Selected Solo Exhibitions 2016 'The Beholder’s Share', ...
 
 
	
                                        Selected Solo Exhibitions Honours and Awards2016 'The Beholder’s Share',  Jehangir Art Gallery and Art Musings, Mumbai2015 'Sakti Burman 60's - 80's: The Divine Desire Paintings of Sakti Burman, Aakriti Art Gallery, New Delhi2015 'A Private Universe;, presented by Art Alive Gallery at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi2012 'Linear Extensions', Akar Prakar, Kolkata2012 'The Wonder of it All',  Retrospective Exhibition presented by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai and Apparao Galleries, Chennai at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata; Dakshina Chitra, Chennai2011 'Yesterday Once Again', Apparao Galleries, Chennai2011 'Pages From a Sketch Book', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai2010 Exhibition of Serigraphs, organized by the Serigraph Studio at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi; Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai; Apparao Galleries, Chennai; Sumukha Art Gallery, Bangalore2009 'Archetype', Aicon Gallery, London 2009 'Encaptured Gaze', Aicon Gallery, New York  2009 'Encaptured Gaze', Jehangir Art Gallery; Art Musings, Mumbai in association with Aicon Gallery  2008 'Encaptured Gaze', Art Alive, New Delhi  2008 'Now and Then', Maison de l'Unesco, organized by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at Salles Miro, Paris  2007 Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi  2006 Organized by organized by Pundole Art Gallery and Apparao Galleries in Chennai and at Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi  2006 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai  2005 ‘Retrospective’, organized by Apparao Galleries at Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi  2002 Organized by Art Today, New Delhi and Pudole Art Gallery, Mumbai at Art Today, New Delhi  2001 Organized by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai and Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata   2001 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai  1999 Organized by Apparao Galleries at Atlantic Gallery, New York   1998 Salon d’ Automne, Paris, Espace Eiffel Branly  1997 Organized by The Town Hall at Cloitre de la Dame Blanche, La Rochelle  1997 Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris in Tokushima, Myazaki and Osaka  1996 Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris at  Wakayama and Sapporo   1996 Organized by Apparao Galleries at Visual Art Center, Hong Kong  1995 The Gallery (Apparao Galleries), Chennai  1993 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai  1993 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata  1992 Centre of Contemporary Art, New Delhi  1992 ‘Hommage a Beaudelaire’, Galerie d’Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris  1990 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai  1989 Semaine Culturelle Indienne, Eaubonne, Val d’Oise  1989 Fondation Firmin Bauby, Perpignan  1989 XX eme Salon Du Grenier a Sel, Orleans  1988 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai  1988 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata  1988 Sista Art Gallery, Bangalore  1988 'Hommage a Rabindranath Tagore', Galerie d’ Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris  1988 Galerie Presences, Bruxelles  1986 Galerie Das Kunstabinett, Gogh, Allemagne  1986 Hotel de ville de Clermont –Ferrand, France  1986 Centre Culturel de la Ville d’ Agen  1985 Galerie Schemes, Lille Centre Cultural de Saint Denis Maison de Van Gogh, Auvets-sur-Oise Galerie Untenburg, Zurich  1984 Musee Denon, Chalon-sur-Saone, Galerie d’Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris  1984 Kunsthandlung Osper, Cologne  1983 Galerie Sagar, Zurich  1982 'Contes et Legendes', Galerie d’Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris  1982 Galleria Cecchini, Perugia  1982 Galleria Lame, Bologna  1981 Galerie de la Rue Ancienne, Geneva  1980 Galerie de Bernardi, Aachen, Musee de Blois, Musee de Villeneuve-sur-Lot  1979 Galerie Gerard Sauret, Libos  1978 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata  1978 Chanakya Art Gallery, New Delhi  1977 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai  1977 Kunika Chemould, New Delhi  1975 Galerie de l’Hotel Meridien, Nice  1974 Galerie Arts et Beaux-Arts de France, Paris  1973 Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Genoa  1971 Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan  1970 Galerie Doucet et Coutureau, Paris  1970 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai  1967 Piccadilly Gallery, London  1967 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai  1965 Kunika Chemould, New Delhi  1964 Scott and Faure Gallery, La Jolla, California  1963 Galerie Saint Placide, Paris  1962 Ashoka Gallery, Kolkata  1962 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi  1961 Piccadilly Gallery, London  1958 Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris  1956 Ecole des Beaux- Arts, France  1954 Art and Industry, Kolkata
 Selected Group Exhibitions
 2014 'Rituals and Reasons: Invoking the Sensual in Art', Apparao Galleries, Chennai 2011-12 'Reprise 2011', Aicon Gallery, New York  2011 'Aureus 2011', Gallerie Nvya, New Delhi
2010 '10 x 10', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi2010 'Dali's Elephant', Aicon Gallery, London2010 'Besides Paris', Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata2010 'The Living Insignia', Gallery Ensign, New Delhi2010 'Modern Folk: The Folk Art Roots of the Modernist Avant-Garde', Aicon Gallery, New York2009 'Think Small', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi 2007 'Faces of Indian Art', organized by Art Alive at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi  2007 ‘Understanding Oneness in Diversity’, Kitab Mahal, Mumbai  2007 ‘An Evening in Paris …Rome…London’, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata  2007 'Mirror', Gallery Nvya, New Delhi  2007 'Resonance', organized by Art Musings at Museum Gallery, Mumbai  2006 'Shadanga', organized by Gallerie Ganesha at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi  2006 ‘Sensuality, Perception and the Self’, Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi  2006 'Making of Divinity', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai  2006 'Two 2 Tango', organized by Gallerie Nvya at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi  2006 'The New Space', Art Space, Dubai  2004 ‘Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings’ by Sakti Burman, Jayasri Burman, Maya Burman, Maite Delteil and Paresh Maity, organized by Visual Arts, London at Gallery 27, London   2004 ‘Confluence 2004’, AICON Gallery, New York  2004 'A Vision: Looking Back/ Looking Forward', Apparao Galleries, Chennai  2004 'Indian Artist for France', organized by French Embassy at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi  2003 'Works on Paper', organized by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi  2003 ‘Mappings, Exciting New Links Between the Ancient Cultures of India and Egypt’, organized by Uttarayan, Baroda at Visual Art Gallery, India habitat Centre, New Delhi and Bayer ABS Limited Gallery, Vadodara  2003 ‘Portraits of a Decade’, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata  2003 ‘Celebration of Color’, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery and The Times of India, Mumbai, New Delhi  2003 ‘The Said and the Unsaid’, organized by The Committee of the Jehangir Art Gallery and Apparao Gallery, Mumbai  2003 ‘Shanti Path’, Tao Gallery, Mumbai  2003 'Master Strokes', Art Musings, Mumbai  2003 'Fair and Furious', organized by Art Alive at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi  2003 'The Celebration of Color', Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi and Times of India, Mumbai  2002 ‘Aspects of Modern Indian Painting’, New York organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai  2002 ‘Return to Eden’, Art Musings, Mumbai  2001 ‘Three Burman’, Sakti, Maite and Maya, Art Today, New Delhi  2001 ‘Art of Bengal, Past and Present 1850-2000’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai and Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata  2001 ‘Burman’, Sakti, Maite, Maya’, Mediatheque du Lamentin, La Martinique  2001 ‘Indian Contemporary Art’, organized by Saffronart, Hongkong  2001 ‘Indian Contemporary Fine Art’, organized by Saffronart in collaboration with Apparao Galleries, Los Angeles  2001 ‘A Treasure Trove’, Paintings from B.K. Birla Family Collection, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata  2000 Sigmund Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’, organized by University Art Museum, Birghamton, New York  2000 Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna  2000 ‘Indian Art Through The Ages, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, organized by Indian Fine Arts Society, Singapore  2000 ‘The World Is Round And Time Is Cyclical’, Art Today, New Delhi  2000 ‘Paradise Revisited’, Art Musings, Mumbai  2000 ‘Shatabdi – Reflection on a Century Past’, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata  2000 Festival des Cinemas d’Asie, Salle des Ursulines, Vesoul  2000 ‘Paper’, an exhibition of works on paper, The Terrace Garden, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi  2000 ‘The Family 3’, Sakti Burman, Maya Burman and Jayasri Burman, Apparao Galleries, Chennai  1998 Christie’s Auction, Indian Contemporary Paintings, London  1998 ‘Multimedia, Art of the 1900’s’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata  1998 ‘Within The Fame’, Apparao Galleries, Hongkong  1998 ‘The Art of Charity’, Mumbai  1997 Displayed along with works of Picasso, Chagall and Miro at Tokushima, Myazaki and Osaka, Japan  1997 ‘Chamatkar: The Indian Metaphor’, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata at Whitley’s Art Gallery, London  1995 Christie’s Auction, Indian Contemporary paintings, London  1995 ‘Autumn Exhibition’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata at All Indian Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi  1994 ‘Drawing 94’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi  1993 ‘Helpage India’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai   1983 L’Art Fantastique, Musee de Belfort, France  1981 Figuration Actuelle, Chateau des Hayes, France  1980 Galerie Jean Marbach, Mulhouse  1980 Galerie Schemes, Lille, France  1980 Musee de Villeneuve – Sur- Lot, France  1980 Musee de Blois, France  1975 The Hermitage, Leningrad  1975 Pouchkine Museum, Moscow  1964 Chemould, Kolkata
 Participations  2013 'The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi 
2011 'Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art', from the Collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin at Museum Oglethorpe, Atlanta
2011 'Resonance', Art Musings, Mumbai2011 'Celebrations 2011', Kumar Gallery, New Delhi2010 'Art Celebrates 2010', represented by Gallerie Ganesha at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games 2010 'Summer Show 2010', Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata 2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai  2010 'Celebration 2010',  Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi2007 'Art Paris', Abu Dhabi  2007 'India Art 2007', organized by International Institute of Fine Arts at House of Lords, London  2007 Invited as 'Artist in Focus', at Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai  2007 ‘17th Anniversary Show’, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata  2006 ‘17th Anniversary Group Show’, organized by Gallerie Ganesha at Gallerie Ganesha and The Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi  2006 'Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai  2005 'Harmony Show', Nehru Centre, Mumbai  2005 'Spirit Set Free', Golden Jubilee Show, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi  2003 Anniversary Exhibition, Art Musings, Mumbai  2002 'Palette 2002', Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi  1998 ‘Harmony Show’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai  1984 International Graphic Art Exhibition, New Delhi  1982 V Internatinal Triennale, New Delhi
 
	
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