Jyothi Basu
Jyothi Basu was born in Kerala in 1960. He has a BFA in Painting from the College of Fine Arts in Trivandrum and a Post Diploma in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda.
Participations include a workshop with four artists in the fisher-camp of Vettukadu, Kerala, which resulted in the exhibition Painters with Fishermen held at the Student Center in Trivandrum in 1985. In 1987 he participated in Alekhya Darshan, curated by C. Raman Schlemmer, at the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva. In 1988 Basu co-founded the Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association. The Group’s inaugural exhibition, Questions and Dialogue, was held at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Baroda in the same year.
A long hiatus in his painting career from 1991 to 1997 was followed by a stint working as set designer for a television channel. A significant breakthrough occurred in his painting thereafter, culminating in his first solo exhibition, Healing Properties: VN Jyothi Basu’s Landscapes of the Self, organized by The Fine Art Resource at Artists’ Center, Mumbai in 2003.
Group exhibitions thereafter include Bombay x 17, Kashi Art Gallery, Cochin, 2004; Bombay Boys, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2004; Anticipations organized by The Fine Art Resource at Jehangir Art Gallery and The Museum Gallery, Mumbai, 2004; The Artist Lives and Works, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2005; and A Piece of the Wall, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, 2006.
The artist lives and works in Mumbai.
Kilde: Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Berlin 2006
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