Sakti Burman

Born in Calcutta in 1935, Sakti Burman studied at the Government School of Arts and Crafts in Calcutta and later at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Burman uses pointillism and a marbling technique achieved by mixing oils with acrylics to create fresco-like works on paper and canvas. Burman's paintings often evoke a surreal feel, referencing multiplicities of time and place. Her art drew heavily on Hindu and European mythology, as well as the artist's own memories. Her paintings, which suggest surrealism, are populated with humans, animals, and dreamlike cityscapes. Her defining work owes much to her marbling technique, which she arrived at after years of experimentation. Burman traveled to Italy in 1958 and her encounter with the frescoes of Giotto, Piero de la Francesca, and Simone Martini inspired him to assimilate her monumentality and textures in her works.

The artist had his first solo exhibition in 1954 in Calcutta and has since exhibited widely around the world, including in places such as the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, the Piccadilly Gallery in Paris, the Galerie Doucet et Coutureau in London, the Galleria Nuovo Sagittario of Paris, Milan and the Galerie Sagar. , Zurich.

Burman has participated in several exhibitions, some of the most recent include The Beholders Share by Jehangir Art Gallery and Art Musings in Mumbai in 2016 A Private Universe by Art Alive Gallery in New Delhi in 2015 Rituals and Reasons Invoking the Sensual in Art, in Apparao Galleries in Chennai in 2014 The Wonder of it All, a retrospective exhibition by Pundole Art Gallery and Apparao Galleries in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai in 2012, Archetype and Enraputured Gaze at Aicon Gallery in London and New York in 2009 Faces of Indian Art organized by Art Alive at Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi Understanding Oneness in Diversity at Kitab Mahal, Mumbai An Evening in Paris Rome London at Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata, and Resonance organized by Art Musings at Museum Gallery, Mumbai, all in 2007 Burman received the Medaille dArgent au Salon de Montmorency and the Prix des Etrangers, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1956.

Sakti Burman lives and works in Paris.

BORN

1935 in Calcutta

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Calcutta

1960 the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 The Beholders Share, Jehangir Art Gallery and Art Musings, Mumbai

2015 Sakti Burman 1960s - 1980s The Divine Desire Paintings of Sakti Burman, Aakriti Art Gallery, New Delhi

2015 A Private Universe, presented by Art Alive Gallery at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

2012 Linear Extensions, Akar Prakar, Kolkata

2012 The Wonder of it All, retrospective exhibition presented by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, and Apparao Galleries, Chennai at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata Dakshina Chitra, Chennai

2011 Yesterday Once More, Apparao Galleries, Chennai

2011 Pages from a Sketchbook, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2010 Screen Print Exhibition, organized by Serigraph Studio at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai Apparao Galleries, Chennai Sumukha Art Gallery, Bangalore

2009 Archetype, Aicon Gallery, London

2009 Captive Gaze, Aicon Gallery, New York

2009 Captivated Gaze, Jehangir Art Gallery Art Musings, Mumbai in association with Aicon Gallery

2008 Captive Gaze, Art Alive, New Delhi

2008 Now and Then, Maison de lUnesco, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Salles Miro, Paris

2007 Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi

2006 Organized by Pundole Art Gallery and Apparao Galleries in Chennai and at Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi. 

2006 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2005 Retrospective, organized by Apparao Galleries at Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

2002 Organized by Art Today, New Delhi and Pudole Art Gallery, Mumbai at Art Today, New Delhi

2001 Organized by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai and Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata

2001 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1999 Organized by Apparao Galleries at Atlantic Gallery, New York

1998 Autumn Salon, Paris, Eiffel Branly Space

1997 Organized by the City Council of the Cloitre de la Dame Blanche, La Rochelle

1997 Exhibitions organized by the School of Paris in Tokushima, Myazaki, and Osaka.

1996 Exhibitions organized by the School of Paris in Wakayama and Sapporo.

1996 Organized by Apparao Galleries at Visual Art Center, Hong Kong

1995 The Gallery (Apparao Galleries), Chennai

1993 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

1993 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata

1992 Center for Contemporary Art, New Delhi

1992 Homage to Beaudelaire, Galerie dArt de la Place Beauvau, Paris

1990 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay

1989 Indian Cultural Week, Eaubonne, Val d'Oise

1989 Firmin Bauby Foundation, Perpignan

1989 XX Salon Du Grenier a Sel, Orleans

1988 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay

1988 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata

1988 Sista Art Gallery, Bengaluru

1988 Homage to Rabindranath Tagore, Galerie d Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris

1988 Presencias Gallery, Brussels

1986 Galerie Das Kunstabinett, Gogh, Germany

1986 Hotel de ville de Clermont-Ferrand, France

1986 Cultural Center of the City of Agen

1985 Galerie Schemes, Lille Cultural Center of Saint Denis Maison de Van Gogh, Auvets-sur-Oise Galerie Untenburg, Zurich

1984 Denon Museum, Chalon-sur-Saone, Galerie dArt de la Place Beauvau, Paris

1984 Kunshandlung Osper, Cologne

1983 Sagar Gallery, Zurich

1982 Contes et Legendes, Galerie dArt de la Place Beauvau, Paris

1982 Cecchini Gallery, Perugia

1982 Lame Gallery, Bologna

1981 Rue Ancienne Gallery, Geneva

1980 Galerie de Bernardi, Aachen, Blois Museum, Villeneuve-sur-Lot Museum

1979 Gerard Sauret Gallery, Libos

1978 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta

1978 Chanakya Art Gallery, New Delhi

1977 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay

1977 Kunika Chemould, New Delhi

1975 Gallery of the Hotel Meridien, Nice

1974 Galerie Arts et Beaux-Arts de France, Paris

1973 Nuovo Sagittario Gallery, Genoa

1971 Nuovo Sagittario Gallery, Milan

1970 Doucet et Coutureau Gallery, Paris

1970 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay

1967 Piccadilly Gallery, London

1967 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay

1965 Kunika Chemould, New Delhi

1964 Scott and Faure Gallery, La Jolla, California

1963 Saint Placide Gallery, Paris

1962 Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta

1962 Indian Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi

1961 Piccadilly Gallery, London

1958 Gallery of Fine Arts, Paris

1956 School of Fine Arts, France

1954 Art and Industry, Calcutta.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 Rituals and reasons that invoke the sensual in art, Apparao Galleries, Chennai

2011-12 Reprise 2011, Aicon Gallery, New York

2011 Aureus 2011, Nvya Gallery, New Delhi

2010 10 x 10, Threshold Gallery, New Delhi

2010 Dalis Elephant, Aicon Gallery, London

2010 Besides Paris, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata

2010 The Living Insignia, Ensign Gallery, New Delhi

2010 Modern Folk The roots of popular art of the modernist avant-garde, Aicon Gallery, New York

2009 Think Small, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi

2007 Faces of Indian Art, organized by Art Alive at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

2007 Understanding Unity in Diversity, Kitab Mahal, Mumbai

2007 An Evening in Paris Rome London, Sanskriti Gallery, Calcutta

2007 Mirror, Nvya Gallery, New Delhi

2007 Resonance, organized by Art Musings at Museum Gallery, Mumbai

2006 Shadanga, organized by Gallerie Ganesha at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

2006 Sensuality, Perception and Self, Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi

2006 Making of Divinity, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2006 Two 2 Tango, organized by Gallerie Nvya at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

2006 The New Space, Art Space, Dubai

2004 Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Sakti Burman, Jayasri Burman, Maya Burman, Maite Delteil, and Paresh Maity, organized by Visual Arts, London at Gallery 27, London

2004 Confluence 2004, AICON Gallery, New York

2004 A Vision Looking Back Looking Forward, Apparao Galleries, Chennai

2004 Indian Artist for France, organized by the French Embassy at the Alliance Francaise, New Delhi.

2003 Works on Paper, organized by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. 

2003 Mapping, new and exciting links between ancient cultures of India and Egypt, organized by Uttarayan, Baroda at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, and Bayer ABS Limited Gallery, Vadodara. 

2003 Portraits of a Decade, organized by the Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata

2003 Celebration of Color, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery and The Times of India, Mumbai, New Delhi

2003 The Said and the Unsaid, organized by Jehangir Art Gallery Committee and Apparao Gallery, Mumbai

2003 Shanti Path, Tao Gallery, Mumbai

2003 Master Strokes, Art Musings, Mumbai

2003 Fair and Furious, organized by Art Alive at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

2003 The Celebration of Color, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi and Times of India, Mumbai

2002 Aspects of Modern Indian Painting, New York, organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2002 Return to Eden, Art Musings, Mumbai

2001 Three Burman, Sakti, Maite and Maya, Art Today, New Delhi

2001 Art of Bengal, Past and Present 1850-2000, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai and Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata

2001 Burman, Sakti, Maite, Maya, Mediatheque du Lamentin, Martinique

2001 Indian Contemporary Art, organized by Saffronart, Hong Kong

2001 Contemporary Fine Arts of India, organized by Saffronart in collaboration with Apparao Galleries, Los Angeles

2001 A Hidden Treasure, paintings by B.K. Birla Family Collection, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata

2000 Sigmund Freud Interpretation of Dreams, organized by the University Art Museum, Binghamton, New York

2000 Vienna City Historical Museum, Vienna

2000 Indian Art Through the Ages, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, organized by the Indian Society of Fine Arts, Singapore

2000 The world is round and time is cyclical, Art Today, New Delhi

2000 Paradise Revisited, Art Musings, Mumbai

2000 Shatabdi - Reflection on a Bygone Century, organized by the Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata

2000 Asian Film Festival, Sala Ursulina, Vesoul

2000 Paper, exhibition of works on paper, The Terrace Garden, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi. 

2000 Family 3, Sakti Burman, Maya Burman, and Jayasri Burman, Apparao Galleries, Chennai

1998 Christies Auction, Contemporary Indian Paintings, London

1998 Multimedia, 20th Century Art, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta

1998 Inside Fame, Apparatus Galleries, Hong Kong

1998 The Art of Charity, Mumbai

1997 Exhibited along with works by Picasso, Chagall, and Miro in Tokushima, Myazaki, and Osaka, Japan. 

1997 Chamatkar The Indian Metaphor, organized by the Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta at Whitley Art Gallery, London

1995 Christies Auction, Contemporary Indian Paintings, London

1995 Autumn Exhibition, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta at the Indian Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi

1994 Drawing 94, Gallery Espace, New Delhi. 

1993 Helpage India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

1983 LArt Fantastique, Belfort Museum, France

1981 Figuration Actuelle, Chateau des Hayes, France

1980 Jean Marbach Gallery, Mulhouse

1980 Galerie Schemes, Lille, France

1980 Villeneuve Museum - Sur-Lot, France

1980 Blois Museum, France

1975 The Hermitage, Leningrad

1975 Pouchkine Museum, Moscow

1964 Chemould, Calcutta

PARTICIPATIONS

2013 The Nude and the Nude The Body in Modern Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi

2011 Goddess, lion, peasant, priest Modern and contemporary Indian art, from the collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin at the Oglethorpe Museum, Atlanta

2011 Resonance, Art Musings, Mumbai

Celebrations 2011 2011, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi

2010 Art Celebrates 2010, represented by Gallerie Ganesha at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, coinciding with the Commonwealth Games

2010 Summer Show 2010, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata

2010 Evolve 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai

2010 Celebration 2010, Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi

2007 Art Paris, Abu Dhabi

2007 India Art 2007, organized by the House of Lords International Institute of Fine Arts, London

2007 Guest as Artist in Focus, at Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai

2007 17th Anniversary Exhibition, Sanskriti Gallery, Kolkata

2006 17th Anniversary Group Exhibition, organized by Gallerie Ganesha at Gallerie Ganesha and The Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

2006 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai

2005 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai

2005 Spirit Set Free, Golden Jubilee Show, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi

2003 Anniversary Exhibition, Art Musings, Mumbai

2002 Palette 2002, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

1998 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai

1984 International Graphic Art Exhibition, New Delhi

1982 V International Triennial, New Delhi

HONORS AND AWARD

Medaille dargent au Salon de Montmorency

1956 Prix des Etrangers, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Prix de la ville de lIsle-Adam Medaille dor, Salon des Artistes Francais, Grand Palais, Paris

Medaille arts, Science et Letters

Medaille au Salon de Juvisy

Invite d'honneur, Colombes

Invite d'honneur, Douai Invite dhonneur, sainte-Maxime

Invite d'honneur, English Les Bains

Invite d'honneur, Delle

2016 Knight of the Legion of Honour, Government of France