Umesh Raju Bhoi

BORN
May 19, 1990, Nandurbar, Maharashtra

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
2015 Diploma in Painting, Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai
2010-14 G.D Art Painting, L. S. Raheja College of Art, Bandra (West), Mumbai

SCHOLARSHIP
2015-16 YOUNG ARTIST SCHOLARSHIP (Ministry Of Culture, Delhi, India)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 SAADGI Simplicity Pradarshak Art Gallery, Mumbai
2016 Pradarshak Art Gallery, Mumbai

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Archival Art Event, World Trade Centre, Mumbai.
2019 Colours of Life (CPAA), CymrozaArt Gallery, Mumbai.
2019 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
2017 SHADES OF LIFE, Museum of Fine Arts, Chandigarh.
2017 Affordable Art Showcase, West 10 Art Gallery Khargar New Mumbai.
2016 Vermillion, The Bombay Art Society Gallery, Mumbai.
2016 17th Annual Affordable Art Exhibition, Chennai.
2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 India Art Festival, Nehru Centre, Mumbai.
2016, 2015, 2014 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2015 Lok Mangal Foundation, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2017, 2015, 2014 Indian Oil Art Exhibition, Coomaraswamy Hall, CSMVS Museum, Mumbai.
2014 Monsoon Exhibition, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2014 Chatak Monsoon Exhibition, Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2012-13 Vidyarthi Vishesh, Special Exhibition for Students, Pradarshak Art Gallery, Mumbai

PARTICIPATIONS
2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 Maharashtra State Art Exhibition, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2017, 2016 Art-Mart, International Art Festival, Khajuraho (M.P.).
2015 Camlin Art Exhibition, Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2014 Voice of the Voiceless, conceptualized by IFPB (New Delhi).
2014 Rotary Club of Parleshwar, Mumbai.
2013 Kalavart National Art Competition, Ujjain (M.P.).
2012-13 Maharashtra State Art Competition, Mumbai.
2009 Concern India and MGM College of Fine Art, Aurangabad

WORKSHOPS
2019 Revolution and Counter-Revolution Ajanta Caves, Maharashtra
2017 Chartist Art Camp, Jaipur (Rajasthan)
2015 HP Painting Camp, Navi Mumbai
2013 Kalawart National Art Competition (Ujjain), M.P.

HONORS AND AWARD
2019 CAF CONTEST Europe Art Tour.
2014 Cash Prize for Best Figurative Painting sponsored by Smt. Nanda Khedekar.
2014 Cash Prize for Best Watercolour Portrait Painting sponsored by Pidilite.
2013 Merit Award 1st Prize for Best Landscape Painting, Vasai College of Visual Art, Vasai.
2012-13 Best Print of the Year L. S. Raheja School of Art, Bandra.
2010 Best Student of the Year, Vasai College of Visual Arts, Vasai.
2010 1st Prize for Best Nature Painting.
2010 1st Prize for Best Landscape Painting.
2010 Consolation Prize for 3D Design, Vasai College of Visual Art, Vasai.
2010 3rd Prize for Sand Sculpture Cash Prize, Modern Art Education Society, Dadar, Mumbai

ABOUT THE ARTIST

While today's urban people are preoccupied with a busy life, tribal communities, living in isolation away from the city, still enjoy a chaos-free life. These innocent tribal people are still unaffected by words like depression, stress, and burden, which are the most common adjectives of urban societies. They enjoy the blessings of nature by accepting all the challenges that come their way with honesty and truthfulness. They are all elated with no regrets or complaints from nature.

Umesh Bhoi, born and brought up in Nandurbar, a tribal area of Maharashtra, is an artist at ease with the ups and downs of life's experiences. According to him, painting is a self-discovery and an artist paints what he feels, experiences, and sees in his life. The tribal atmosphere helped nurture his inner emotions to express his feelings of attachment to the tribal community through his paintings and sketches. It is only fitting that in Bhoi's painting the figures are humble and unassuming, aspects completely related to his native surroundings. He has been deeply influenced by the deprivation of these simple-natured people since his childhood, who would go to far-off lands to earn their livelihood. The thick and bold freehand outlines are a distinctive attribute in his sketches and paintings. The artist has shown recollections of an unreal world where he has depicted the daily life of tribal people by depicting them engaging in different activities. Bhoi is also trying to come up with a vivid image of their contentment by adding ornamentally patterned foliage which indicates the hidden happiness of contentment of all these hard-working and simple-natured people. His robust and vigorous figures are full of energy from the outside, ready to fight with life by having a strong inner transcendental force and Bhoi knows very well how to bring all these features together by using bright and vivid colors. Despite having different cultures, traditions, and lifestyles, the tribes in this area live in unity, which stimulates the artist's thoughts and represents his solidified nostalgia.

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