EDUCATION
- 1964-68 Did diploma in Fine Arts from Maharaja
Sayajirao University, Baroda. 1979-80 Post Graduation
at Royal College of Art, London.
EXHIBITIONS
1964 Exhb. at Geneva, Switzerland. 1964 Participated
in the Gujarat State Exhibition. 1965 Participated in
the Gujarat State Exhibition. 1965 Annual Exhibition
of All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi.
1968 Solo show at Hyderabad and New Delhi. 1969,70,71,93
Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay. 1969 `Art Today I`, Kunika-
Chemould Gallery, New Delhi. 1970 Exhb. at New Delhi.
1970 Annual Exhibition of All India Fine Arts &
Craft Society, New Delhi. 1972,74,76,78,83,86,91 Solo
shows in Bombay. 1973 Solo show show at Copenhagan.
1973,80,84 Show show at Hoffhiem, Werl, W.Germany. 1974
Annual exhb. of All India Fine Art & Craft Society,
New Delhi. 1974 Solo show at Hyderabad. 1975,78,82,86
III, IV, V, VI International Triennale Rabindra Bhavan,
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. 1976 Annual Exhb. of
All India Fine Art & Craft Society, New Delhi. 1977
Perth Festival, Australia. 1978 Solo show at Art Heritage,
New Delhi. 1978-79 Kala Yatra Travelling Exhibition,
New Delhi, Cal
COLLECTION
- Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
AWARDS
- 1983 Received the National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi,
New Delhi. 1983-85 Received Govt. of India Fellowship.
STYLE
What Shamshad has imbibed from the art milieu at home
is the pictorial significance of the human figure both
as an artistic expression and a statement of faith in
mans social existence. This was latter reinforced by
the prevailing art ideas and ideals in the academic
circles in Baroda during his sophomore years. At Royal
College of Art, his exposure to what was emergent in
western art could have broadened the range of his imagery,
but his concern in man as a social being has left a
permanent impress on his art. Shamshad adopted the graphic
clarity and the adopted the graphic clarity and the
essential flatness of the painted surface as important
elements for his painting. Shamshad paints people with
a restrained palette and people on everyday social plane
appear in pictorial space uncluttered with realistic
details of the `place`.
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