Bhupen Khakhar

1934-2003

Bhupen Khakhar was a self-taught artist, having qualified as a
chartered accountant before moving to Baroda in 1962 to join
the Faculty of Fine Arts. Here he began to paint and became
involved with the seminal Narrative Figurative movement. He
held his first solo exhibition in Bombay in 1965 and had several
solo shows through his career, in Bombay, New Delhi, Baroda,
London, Ahmedabad, Amsterdam, Den Haag, Paris and Tokyo.
Khakhar has also been represented in numerous group exhibitions
including Art Now in India, London, Newcastle and Ghent
(1966), IX Biennale de Sao Paulo, and the First Triennial - India,
New Delhi (1968), Menion Biennale (1977), Narrative Painting,
London (1979), Place for People, Bombay (1981), Six Indian
Painters, Tate Gallery, London (1982), Contemporary Indian Artists,
Center Georges Pompidou, Paris (1986), Documenta IX,
Kessel (1992), India Songs, Sydney and Amsterdam (1994) and
Traditions/Tensions, the Asia Society, New York, 1996. Bhupen
Khakhar lived and worked in Baroda.