Om Prakash Sharma
Born
Om Prakash Sharma

(1932-12-14) 14 December 1932
Bawal, Haryana,
India
NationalityIndian
EducationMaster of Fine Arts
Alma materMeerut College
Delhi Polytechnic
Art Students League of New York
Columbia University
Known forPainting
SpouseSavitri Sharma
AwardsNational Award for Painting
WebsiteOfficial website

Om Prakash Sharma (born 14 December 1932) is an Indian painter, visual artist, professor, writer and sitarist based in New Delhi, India.[1][2] He was bestowed with National Award for Painting of Lalit Kala Akademi in 1969, by the President of India. Sharma has won All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society's Annual Art Exhibitions thrice in 1966, 1967 and 1969, and has been awarded with multiple awards at various state exhibitions.[3][4]

Early life and education

Sharma was born in 1932, in Bawal, Haryana. He attended Meerut College where he graduated in drawing and paintings in 1951. Sharma earned The National Diploma in Fine Arts in 1958 from Delhi Polytechnic with First Class and Distinction. From 1964 to 1966, Sharma attended Columbia University and Art Students League of New York as a Fulbright scholar where he completed his postgraduate studies in Fine Arts and Art History.[4][5][6]

Career

Art educator

After completing his graduation in 1951, Sharma joined D.A.V. School, Paharganj, New Delhi, as an art teacher, where he worked for five years. In 1956, Sharma was appointed as senior art teacher at Government Model School, Ludlow Castle, Delhi where he worked till 1961. From 1961 to 1981, Sharma served as the head of the art department at School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. In 1981, Sharma was appointed as the Dean at College of Art, Delhi where he served till 1992.[4]

Artist

Om Prakash Sharma's career as an artist spans over six decades.[7] His work as an artist has been centered around New Delhi. Sharma is known primarily as a practitioner of a uniquely Indian visual style.[1][8] Sharma started his career as an artist in 1956 during annual exhibition at All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society in Delhi.[7] His paintings has been exhibited at over 100 solo and group exhibition. His art works has been part of permanent collections at various art galleries and museums including Berlin Museum, Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Moscow and Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan.[9][10][11][12] He is regarded as one of the founders of the Neo-Tantra art movement.[13]

Sharma started playing sitar in 1956 when he came in contact with Pandit Ravi Shankar, who helped him in identifying the traditional iconography of different ragas which inspired him to paint 25 Ragmala paintings in water colors. Influence of music has always inspired visual rhythms of Sharma's work.[1][10][6] Sharma has written about art in several art magazines and art columns. He has been an invited keynote speaker at various public talks organized by art societies, museums and institutions in India and abroad, on his paintings in context of contemporary art and the tradition of tantra art. He had also held positionof advisor to various art committees such Boards of education, Parliament House Complex, HUDCO, Urban Arts Commission and several University Counsels. Sharma has also authored several books including Art in Art in 1994, Om Prakash - Forty Years 1958 - 1998 in 1999 and Om Prakash- Sixty Years 1951 - 2012 in 2013.[14][15]

Sharma has received several awards, including three first prizes in Annual Art Exhibitions of the AIFACS, New Delhi.[16] He was awarded the National Award for Painting of Lalit Kala Akademi in 1969. He was also awarded the Delhi State Award from the Chief Minister of Delhi in 2003.[15] He holds Honorary membership of Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow.[17] In 2008, Sharma received Life Time Achievement Award from ART MALL, New Delhi.[15]

Awards and accolades

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

References

  1. 1 2 3 Tripathi, Shailaja (27 September 2013). "Lens and the Man". thehindu.com. The Hindu. Retrieved 23 August 2017. Shailaja Tripathi captures the journey of O.P. Sharma
  2. ↑ "Om Prakash Sharma is an Indian visual artist who was born in 1932". mutualart.com. MutualArt.com. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "His credit include the Lalit Kala Academy's National Award for Painting, First Prize (thrice) for the Annual Art Exhibitions of AIFACS". formsofdevotion.org. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Om Prakash Sharma, Artist Profile". artintaglio.in. Art Intaglio. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  5. ↑ Om Prakash Sharma's Biography, Born on 14 December 1932, at Bawal, Haryana, India, in a conservative and poor family of railway employees Retrieved 23 August 2017
  6. 1 2 Om Prakash: Intuitive Nature | Paintings from 2004-2015 Retrieved 23 August 2017
  7. 1 2 An Insight into the Artists: Strategies of Being Retrieved 23 August 2017
  8. ↑ Om Prakash’s interest in metaphysical thoughts of tantric philosophy led him to the style of abstract images Retrieved 23 August 2017
  9. ↑ Exhibition and Public Collection's of Om Prakash Sharma Retrieved 23 August 2017
  10. 1 2 Berlin and Beyond, Transcends borders Doniphan Blair Retrieved 23 August 2017
  11. ↑ The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Darat Al Funun, Exhibition 1999 Retrieved 23 August 2017
  12. ↑ Om Prakash: Art to Evoke Technology Retrieved 23 August 2017
  13. ↑ Abstraction and Architecture. Om Prakash Sharma is one of the founders of Neo Tantra Art Movement Retrieved 23 August 2017
  14. ↑ Art in Art by Om Prakash Sharma 1994 Retrieved 23 August 2017
  15. 1 2 3 Eclectic Metaphors, Om Prakash Sharma, Artist's introduction Retrieved 23 August 2017
  16. ↑ Om Prakash Sharma has won a number of coveted awards, including the National Award of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1969 Retrieved 23 August 2017
  17. ↑ Third Annual All-India Conference of Russian Compatriots held at the RCSC in New Delhi Retrieved 23 August 2017
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