Uma Sankar Pathak

My canvases present a concrete vista of urbanity synchronized with the nuances of rural life. They affirmatively speak about the spontaneous and restless acts of the migrated day laborers. The imageries further tend in mirroring the rigidity and flexibility of the urban-rural life suggested through the constructive abstract forms. The street lights, zebra, zebra-crossing, etc act as a metaphor for such urban rigidity as opposed to the plow-share, mostly seen in my earlier paintings as a central object or platform projecting the concept of nothing in everything.Here I quoted nothing in everything, in order to emphasize the very nature of mens vast expectation that- he runs after everything and when he gets everything, he is satisfied by nothing.

As an artist, I took this as a subject in revealing my artistic emotions, for the reason that I too am a man of blood and flash and like every other individual I have also remained a victim of the so-called expectation. Moreover, personally, I have been hailed from a farmer family and then came to this city as a migrant with eyes full of desires. So, when I see the roaming numbers on the roads, stations, buses, etc., I just amaze thinking about their degree of expectation and to what extent are they going to be satisfied.

Therefore, most often I try to communicate this flavor of an unending quest to my audience-either physically or virtually. In my installation work Expecting the Expectation, I made one such attempt to make anybody understand the de-limiting attitude of the term expectation itself.

In Look inside outside, I used the flames of smoke in the glass of the window to create a dreamy-cloudy atmosphere, from which he merge several interesting forms that seemed to fascinate me for a time longer. During my childhood, when I used to seat for my lunch, most often I used to see a plane flying outside in the sky through the window of the kitchen. Most interestingly that window was in front of the earthen hearth, so the plane appears to me sometimes in the midst of the clouds while some other times against the smoky flames of the hearth. This put me in a very situation and I just wondered to know the facts related to its mechanism, who are they sitting there, where are they going, how do they feel when they cross the clouds, can I ever sit there or what I am seeing is nothing but a toy of my play.

Again, in  The blackest air I tried to express my grief that human civilization has gifted the nature-the polluted air all around is a definition of mens vast expectations.

In  Towards the Death or Birth, I have displayed a number of scenes showing a burning hut-the different stages of burning, till it turns into ashes. In this work, I just tried to put a question in my viewers minds, Is this the beginning or an end.

BORN

1979

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Fine Arts from College of Art & Crafts, Patna, 2007

Master of Fine Arts from Pracheen Kala Kendra Chandigarh 2009

Master of Fine Arts from Venkateshwar Open University 2020

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Mistiq Art Gallery January 2008

Urban Mirror Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi, 2011

Apparo Art Galleries, Chennai  December, 2012

Apparo Art Galleries, The Lodhi Hotel, New Delhi, January 2013

Beyond Boundaries by Apparao Art Gallery 2016

Crossing Over Solo Show presented Apparo art Gallery 1 nov  30 nov 2021

Project  A @Magnolias artspace  15nov 2022 to 7march 2023

TWO MEN EXHIBITIONS 

Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2011

Collage of art and Crafts Patna, 2007

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Kala Mela, Varanasi 2004

Nandlal Basu Kala Dirgha, Patna 2003,2004

Virgo Art Gallery, Lucknow 2006

College of Arts & Crafts, Patna  2006

The Art People Group Show ,Travanecore Art Gallery, New Delhi   2008

Fusion Group Exhibition By Artlinks, Gurgaon 2008

Group Show ,Travanecore Art Gallery, New Delhi 2008

ARTWORLD, Chennai,Tamil Nadu, August  2008

Indo British Art Foundation Exhibition, UK  2009

Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi Group Exhibition January  2010

Apparo Art Gallery Chennai 18x18 Group Show  2010

Art Alive Gallery New Delhi  Turn The Tables  Group Show  2010

Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi Group Exhibition July  2010

Apparo Art Gallery, Channey18x18 Group Show New Delhi  2010

Hotal Surya New Delhi  2012

Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi Group Exhibition October  2010

Shridharni Art Gallery New Delhi, November  2010

Travanecore Art Gallery, New Delhi march  2009

Art on The Move 2013 Organized by Apparao Galleries, The Lodhi Hotel, New Delhi

Surya Hotel, Group Show, New Delhi  2012

Nvya Galleries (Within Reach IV Summer  2013,14, 

Hidden History of Geography 2013 organised by Apparao Galleries & Manave agrawal The Lodhi Hotel, New Delhi

Art for Life lll Organised by Aapsa art Present ,Lalit Kala Akademi, New delhi  2013

Apparao Art Gallery at lila palace Chennai

Alliance Frances New Delhi  2015

Art Positive Gallery presented Art Spotting Group show New Delhi  2014

Strength to strength Apparao Art Gallery 2016, Lodhi Hotel 

Gallery sree mediating dreams ..Visual arts gallery new Delhi 2017

Art on the move ,Apparao art gallery   lodhi hotel 2013

MOMUS,Greece Group show presented by Gallery Onkafs new delhi 2017

Lets Get Phygital Trinity art Gallery Mumbai  18 nov 2022 feb 23

Shailjas Studio Group Show nov 2022

Gandhi or Gandhi ka India .Department of Financial Management new Delhi 1 october 2022

Trinity art Gallery present Group show Mumbai 2022

Gallery pioneer present Panoramic view of Bihar 2022

Under the white sky Group exhibition Arpana kaur Gallery 5 June 2022

Shailjas Studio Group Show SPECTRUM april  2022

Vayam Navam origanised by Aapsa art  & Shailjas Studio 26 feb 2022

TAP India Crossing Over art Show presented Apparo art Gallery 2020

Journey Beyond presents Gallery 1000 A 15th Dec 2020

WORKSHOPS

Centre for Social Development & Studies( C.S.D.S) Painting 25th May 2004

11th Youth Festival, Patna 2006

Variation, Painting Work Shop & Exhibition State art Gallery, Hyderabad  2006

Variation, Exhibition & Work Shop College of Arts & Crafts, Patna  2007

Variation, Exhibition & Work Shop Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai  2007

Organized By Krishna art Collection, Hotel Janpath, New Delhi  2008

Indo British Art Foundation Camp,Patna 2008 2009

Lalit Kala Academy Orisha Camp, 2009

Khushi N.G.O., New Delhi,France Embassy, 2008

Lalit Kala Akademi Camp, Udaipur 2010

Lalit Kala Akademi Camp, Tripura  2010

Lalit Kala Akademi New Media Camp, Silchar University,  2011

Lalit Kala Akademi Camp Shilong,  2012

Lalit Kala Akademi & ICCR Patna,  2012

Mid Career Artist Camp Patna 6th   11th  March 2019

Republic of Slovenia Embassy new Delhi Gallery Sree 2022

Yamuna Utsav new Delhi Presented  Gallery Sree 2021

PARTICIPATIONS

A.I.F.C.S.  2003 State Level

Youth Convention, Patna Womens College, 2004

Camlin Art Foundation 2004 East Zone

College Annual Exhibition 2002

Kalankan Prayaas, Dhanbad 2005

Golden Brush Kolkata 2006

Camlin Art Foundation  2008 North Zone

Dhoomimal  Art Gallery new delhi 2009

HONORS AND AWARD

Red Cross Society, South Korea, International Poster Competition, 2004, 2nd Award. 

Bihar State Pollution Control Board, Patna  2004, 1st Award

National Poster Competition, Mumbai 2005, 2nd Award.