Akbar Padamsee

b. 1928

Akbar Padamsee received his diploma from the Sir J.J. School
of Art in Mumbai. He left for Paris in 1951 and lived and worked
there until 1967. He, along with contemporaries like M.F.
Husain, F.N. Souza, Tyeb Mehta and V.S. Gaitonde, aimed at
creating a new Indian modernism in art practice. He has had
major retrospectives in Mumbai and New Delhi in 1980 and
has participated in numerous exhibitions: Seven Indian Painters,
Gallery One, London in 1958; International Biennales at
Venice; Sao Paulo and Tokyo; Museum of Modem Art, Oxford
(1981); Royal Academy of Arts, Festival of India, London
(1982); Indian Artists in France, Paris (1985) among others.
In 1967 he was invited as Artist-in Residence by the Stout
State University, Wisconsin, USA. Padamsee was awarded the
Artist Biographies Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship in 1969 with which he started
an inter-arts workshop in Mumbai. Padamsee lives and works
in Mumbai.