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Mr. Akbar Padamsee
	Akbar Padamsee completed his Diploma in Fine Arts from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. He left for Paris in 1949. In 1965, he received the J. D. Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship. He was Artist-in-Residence at the Stout State University, Wisconsin and held a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal in 1967. He returned to India the same year and was awarded the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship for 1969-70, during which he made four short films one of which was ‘SYZYGY’; based on a set of his animated geometrical drawings, and ‘Events in a Cloud Chamber’.
	He has held several solo exhibitions throughout his long and illustrious career and was invited to exhibit at the Venice Biennale(1953 & 55); ‘Seven Indian Painters’ Gallery One, London(1958); Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil and Tokyo Biennale, Japan(1959); Gallery ’63, New York(1963); Indian Triennale, New Delhi(1968); ‘India: Myth and Reality-Aspects of Modern Indian Art’(1981), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford-1981; ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, Festival of India, Royal Academy of Art, ) ). London-1982 ,a retrospective showing of his works was organized by Art Heritage, New Delhi as well as in Bombay in (1980-81); ‘Artistes Indians en France’, Foundation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris(1985); Festival of India ,Moscow ,U.S.S.R (1987); ‘National Exhibition of Contemporary Art’, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi-1991, ‘Ashta Nayak’, Tao Art Gallery, Bombay(2001),Sounds of wilderness-Akbar Padamsee Recent Water colors, Drawings Photographs’ organized by gallery Threshold(New Delhi),Galerie Romain Rolland,Alliance Francaise(2005).
	He was awarded the Kalidas Samman by the Madhya Pradesh State Government (1997-98).French Art Journal, Arts Award, France (1952), Bank of India Excellence Awards (1998) and Lalit kala Ratna Puraskar (2004). He is also a keen student of Sanskrit.
	Though Padamsee’s works evade categorization, the act of “mark making” is the key element in his works. Building up the surface in which each stroke supports the other as if it were a syllable in a conversation. His series of metascapes in particular evoke a sense of the sublime. As Geeta Kapur aptly noted,”Akbar’s landscapes hold you in abeyance. They are materially concrete and in that lies their ancient secret, a secret that requires contemplation. And in their very concreteness they appear so remote; it seems as if the elements have congealed in the light of contemplation.”

	Akbar Padamsee lives and works in Mumbai.


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