Paramjit Singh

b. 1935

Paramjit Singh studied at the Delhi School of Art and learnt
printmaking at Atelier Nord Oslo Norway. He taught at the
Department of Fine Art, Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi
for twenty-nine years retiring as Professor in 1992 to take to
full time painting in pursuit of his passion. He was the founder
member of ‘The Unknown’, a group of young painters and sculptors
based in Delhi. Following his first solo exhibition in 1967 at
Triveni Gallery in Delhi, he has had more than thirty solo and fifty
group exhibitions in various Indian metros and abroad including
Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Singapore, London, Norway, Germany,
Tokyo and Belgium. Winner of the National Award in 1970 and
participant at art festivals in the then USSR, Baghdad and Israel
amongst others, he has also been the Commissioner for the
Indian participation at the Art Festival of Pakistan in Lahore. The
artist lives and works in New Delhi.