Welcome to Prithvi Fine Art and Cultural Centre.
In the year 1995 she held her first solo show at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, which was inaugurated by none other than Mother Teresa. The entire sale proceeds of this show were donated to CRY. She has held 35 solo shows all over India including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Chandigarh and overseas in London, Berlin, Munich, Lahore Belfast (Northern Ireland) and Thessaloniki(Greece).
In August, 2013, her 26th solo exhibition dedicated to Uttarakhand, was inaugurated by the former President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. The fund of Rs. 20 lakh raised through the sale proceeds of her paintings has been used for creating a Fine Art Education Grant for the students of Uttarakhand
She as president of Prithvi Fine Art & Culture Centre a charitable society inDelhi has been promoting Art and Culture, As part of a cultural exchange programme of Prithvi, was instrumental in organizing an exhibition of 18 Greek artists at Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi (2014) and in 2015 a group of seven artists of India were represented in an exhibition at EMS Museum Gallery Thessaloniki (Greece) as part of Cultural Exchange project.
She is also promoting a project for Revival of Basholi Paintings, a heritage of Jammu, a project of Prithvi Fine Art & Cultural Centre. All profits from sale of her photographs printed on Canvas is being utilized for helping students of Basholi art.
She has participated in more than 200 group shows in India and abroad, in national exhibitions of Lalit Kala Akademi, AIFACS and Sahitya Kala Parishad and in several art camps.
Her paintings are in the permanent collection of the Bharat Bhavan Museum, Bhopal, Museum of Sacred Art (MOSA) Belgium and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
(Greece). Her works have been represented at the India Art Fair, New Delhi in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. As part of Indian Delegation she had a solo exhibition of paintings at Shenzhen, China 11th International Cultural and Industrial fair 2015. She has participated in 3rd Jerusalem Biennale, Jerusalem 2017.
Apart from winning all India awards for drawing and painting her works occupy space on the walls of the country’s most prestigious residences and offices including those of the President and Prime Minister as well as Governors of Karnataka and Jammu and Kashmir. This multifaceted lady also dabbles in several other fields like photography and she has taken part in national exhibitions of photography in 1999 and 2001, New Delhi.
She has directed 24 documentary films. Some of them were telecast on television and in film festivals.
2021: Longest painting made with natural indigo colour and dye, India Book of Records
2021: Longest painting made on handspun khaddar, Miracles World Records
2020-22: Longest painting on textile, Limca Book of Records
2020: Critic’s choice award, World University of Design
2020: Literoma Nari Samman, Kolkata,
2019: Lifetime achievement award 2019, Art Fiesta, Jaipur for her contribution in the field of fine arts.
2019: Excellence award, beyond the boundaries, AKP Healing India,Delhi,
2019: Elite women of the year 2019, Elite magazine, Delhi.
2018: Impressions Icon award, Delhi.
2018:Global achievers award, Nirbhya Jyoti Trust, Delhi,
2018:Indian Iconic Personality award, Vishwashanti Seva charitable Trust.
2018: Raja Ravi Varma Chitrakar Samman, Megh Mandal Sansthan, Mumbai.
2018: Kala Vibhuti Samman, Sai Shinjini, Academy of Fine Arts & Culture, Delhi.
2018: Pratibha Samman 2018, Women of Substance Award- category- Writer and Artist by Namaskar Dunia, Delhi.
2018: Certificate of Recognition, Phenomenal SHE, 2018 by Indian National Bar Association and Alliance FrancaiseDe, Delhi.
2018: Naari Gaurav Samman, 2018 by Rajasthani Academy, Delhi.
2018: Kalptaru Award,2018 category- Art and Poetry by Kalptaru Academy,Delhi.
2017: Achievers Award, 2017 by India Eye International Human Rights Observer, Delhi on the occasion of celebration of International Day of the Girl Child.
2017: 8th Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award, 2017 by Pehchan (An NGO, Nurturing the girl child), Delhi.
2017: Literary Award, 2017 at IIC, New Delhi by Bharat Nirman, Delhi.
2016: Certificate of Merit Awarded by South Central Zone Cultural Center Nagpur, Ministry of Culture, Government of India for painting executed in Ujjain Mahakunbh, 2016.
2016: 7th Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award, 2016 by Pehchan (An NGO, Nurturing the girl child), Delhi.
2016: The Great Women Achievers Awards – 2016 by The Performer (group of art & culture), Jammu.
2016: Bureaucrat of the year, Make in India Excellence award by IGBC, Delhi.
2016: Kala Drishti Award for exemplary work done in the field of Civil Service & Art.
2015: Delhi Gaurav Award 2015 in Professional category for Art & Culture by Indian Brave Hearts supported by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India.
2015: 6th Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi by Pehchan (An NGO, Nurturing the girl child).
2015: India Excellence Award for Poetry 2015 by Bharat Nirmaan, Delhi.
2015: Priyadarshini Award 2015 as an International Cultural Entrepreneur by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Entrepreneur (MSME).
2015: 35thWomen Entrepreneurship Award by Bharat Nirmaan, Delhi.
2015: Global Women Achievers Award by IGBC, Delhi.
2014: Awarded and honored as an Artist by 3rd Delhi International Film Festival.
2014: Poet of the Year award by 3rd Delhi International Film Festival.
2013: 6thNational Women Excellence Award by Yog Confederation of India in collaboration with International Women Excellence Awards Organization.
2013: Women Achievers Award from Indian Council for UN relations on the eve of International Women’s Day.
2013: Vishwa Hindi Pracheta Alankaran by Uttar Pradesh Hindi Saahitya Sammelan & Utkarsh Academy, Kanpur.
2012:Udbhav Shikhar Samman by Udbhav Samajik Sanskritik Aivum Sahityik Sansthan for achievements in the field of art and literature.
2005: 77th annual award for painting in 2005 by AIFACS, New Delhi.
1999: Hindprabha award for Indian Women Achievers by Uttar Pradesh Mahila Manch in 1999.
1998: 69th annual award for drawing in 1998 by AIFACS, New Delhi.
1986: Gold Medal for Best Probationer (1984 Indian Revenue Services).
To me abstract art is a means to reach the non-objective experiences that help shape the inner life. It is a witness to the fact that mans spiritual needs do not disappear even in times engulfed by gross materialism.
For about three decades notions of Time, Space and Light have preoccupied me. My paintings and drawings proceed from my inner world of memories and dreams. I am not certain if I can express myself fully only through words my entire journey. The connection of my inner world with all mundane experiences is not easy to explain. However, on many occasions, I realize there is no compartment between the two and that perhaps brings into being incoherent visions in the idiom of colors and shapes. My recent paintings make me observe a number of shades and a series of conclusion converging at different points of the space. My Time Zone has been continuously changing ever since I was born. Some of my works have limited strokes of colours and a limited range too, but they have possibly added wider dimensions to my themes. I find myself inclined to paint mostly without preparedness. To my inner self and elsewhere, nature is a phenomenon that creates and destroys time and space without a halt.
When I choose to paint abstract I am only striving to liberate myself through colours as my tools, invoking the infinite and the five elements as my source of inspiration. It is my endeavour to blend two or more elements to create harmony. Painting is my way to meditate and discover my own self. When I draw or paint I am in search of my own self. For me it is a way of re- inventing my identity. For me it is an act of faith, where I converse with the universe.
A widely travelled person lives and works in Delhi.
Studio-residence
A-1/232, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi- 110029.
9810031694
sangeetaguptaart@gmail.com
www.sangeetagupta.co.in
