Burhan Najmuddin Nagarwala
BORN
February 8, 1987
EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
2016 MFA Master of Fine Arts in Painting
2015 Attended painting workshops for 5 months at Art Studio in San Francisco, California, USA
2011 BFA Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Charcoal Malaka Spice Hotel, Koregaon Park, Pune, India.
2013 A HORSE D.D.Neroy Art Gallery, Mumbai, India.
2012 BEAUTY IN BLACK D.D.Neroy Art Gallery, Mumbai, India.
2011 MY WORK Malaka Spice Hotel, Koregaon Park, Pune, India.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Let Art Work Gallery. Pune, India.
2014 Dubai Art Fair
2014 Art Hop Oakwood Hotel Pune, India.
2013 Tulika Art Gallery Mumbai, India.
2012 United Art Fair, Delhi, India.
2011 P.O. R. N Painters of the Real Nation Darpan Art Gallery Pune, India.
In 2004, the Society of Marine Artists S.I.M.A. held exhibitions of seascape paintings in Pune, India.
HONORS AND AWARD
2015 Selection of artworks in the 35th issue of Berkeley Fiction Reviews, California, USA.
2014 Bombay Art Society Award for Best Painting.
2011 Selection of Portrait by the Indian Art Society.
2011 Camlin Oil Award for Portrait in the Student Category.
2010 First Place in Maharashtra State Art Award.
2009, 2010 Selection of Bombay Art Society.
2008 Selection of paintings in Camlin, Bombay Art Society, and Indian Art Society.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Burhan Nagarwala is a young and emerging artist based in Mumbai. He has completed a Master in Fine Arts from Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune, India. Most of his paintings are realistic.
Burhan prefers oil and charcoal as his mediums of choice. He has been interested in painting horses since childhood and does it impeccably. Through horses, he portrays the joys and pains of life. Burhan also creates abstract landscapes and portraits depending on his mood, what attracts him, or what is happening in his surroundings. He does not like to stick to one style; he believes that an artist should experiment with everything in the art world.
The horse is the symbol of beauty, freedom, and strength. Fiery enthusiasm, backed by common sense and persistence, is the quality that most often leads to success, cites the artist.