ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
SAKTI BURMAN
Born 1935, Kolkata
Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata (1956)
Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris
The artist lives and works in Paris.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2009 Encaptured Gaze, Jehangir Art Gallery; Art Musings, Mumbai in association with Aicon Gallery
2008 Maison de l'Unesco, organized by Unesco, Salles Miro, Paris
Art Alive, New Delhi
Aicon Gallery, New York
2007 Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2006 Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 Retrospective, organized by Apparao Galleries, Visual Arts Gallery, Indian Habitat
2001 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Art Todat, New Delhi
1999 Atlantic Gallery, New York organized by Apparao Galleries
1997 Cloitre de la Dame Blanche, La Rochelle
Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris at Tokushima, Myazaki and Osaka
1996 Exhibitions organized by Ecole de Paris at Wakayama and Sapporo
1995 Apparao Galleries, Chennai
1994 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1992 Centre of Contemporary Art, New Delhi
1990 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1989 Semaine Culturelle Indienne, Eaubonne, Val d'Oise
Fondation Firmin Bauby, Perpignan
XX salon du Grenier a sel, Orleans
Select Group Exhibitions
2008 Art Alive, New Delhi
2007 An Evening in Paris …Rome…London, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
Understanding Oneness in Diversity, Kitab Mahal, Mumbai
Indiaart 2007, organized by International Institute of Fine Arts at House of Lords, London
Faces of Indian art, organized by Art Alive at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New
Delhi
Invited as "Artist in Focus" at Harmony Show, Nehru Center Mumbai
MIRROR organized by Gallery NVYA, New Delhi
Resixsances organized by Art Musings at Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2006 Shadanga Curated by Alka Pande and Gallerie Genesha, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat
Centre, New Delhi
Making of Divinity curated by Ina Purl, Sakeh Gallery, Mumbai
Harmony Show organized by Tina Aruban, Mumbai
Two 2 Tango, organized by Gallera Nvya, Lalo Kala Akixlarni, New Delhi
2005 The New Space, organized by Art Space, Dubai
10th Harmony Show organized by The Ambani, Mumbai
Spirit Set Free, Golden Juelee Show organized by Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
2004 Confluence, organized by ArtsIndia, New York
AVislor - Looking Back; Looking Forward organized by Apparao Galleries
The Burman Family organized by Visual Arts, London, Gallery 27
Indian Artiste for France organized by French Embassy at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
2003 Master Strokes organized by Art Musings, Mumbai
Portraits of a Decade organized by CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
The Celebration of Color, Vadehera Art Gallery and Times of India, Mumbai and New Delhi
Anniversary Exhibition, Art Musings, Mumbai
Shanti Path, Tao Gallery, Mumbai
The Said and the Unsaid, organized by The Committee of the Jehangir Art Gallery and
Apparao Gallery, Mumbai
2002 Aspects of Modern Indian Painting, New York organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery,
Mumbai
Palette 2002, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
For Ihe Gukter Jubilese Celebration of Jehangir Art Gallery, participated in auction with three
painters, Bombay
2001 Three Burman, Sakti, Maite and Maya, Art Today, New Delhi
Art of Bengal, Past and Present 1850-2000, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and
CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
Burman', Sakti, Maite, Maya', Mediatheque du Lamentin, La Martinique
Indian Contemporary Art, organized by Saffronart, Hongkong
Indian Contemporary Art, organized by Saffronart in collaboration with Apparao galleries, Los
Angeles
A Treasure Trove, Paintings from B.K. Birla Family Collection, Birla Academy of Art and Culture,
Kolkata
2000 Mappings making new links between Artisinal Cultures of India and Egypt, organized
Sigmund Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams', organized by University Art Museum, Birghamton,
New York
1999 VIENNA Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, organized by University Art Museum,
Birghamton, New York; Artists in exhibition: Odilon Redon, Giorgio de Chirico, Marc Chagall,
Salvador Dali
1998 Christie's Auction, Indian Contemporary paintings, London
Multimedia, Art of the 1900's, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
Harmony Show, Mumbai
Within The Fame, Apparao Galleries, Hongkong
The Art of Charity, Mumbai
1997 Displayed along with works of Picasso, Chagall and Miro at Tokushima, Myazaki and Osaka,
Japan
Chamatkar, The Indian Metaphor, organized by CIMA , Kolkata at Whitleys Art Gallery, London
Honors & Awards
Medaille d'argent au Salon de Montmorency
Prix des Etrangers, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Prix de la ville de l'Isle-Adam
Medaille d'or, 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 d'honneur, sainte-Maxime
Invite d'honneur, English Les Bains