The bedrock of Manav Gupta's art comes from his early life in childhood days in Kolkata. His art transmutes a repository of emotions and experiences that stem from his early childhood of 0 - 5 years, nurtured by his literateaur parents, both scholars, who introduced him to the sensorial universe of all five elements and the well rounded cultural milieu of literature, dance, music, theatre, poetry and art. The striking contrast of subsequent teenage years of pain and struggle, as a single parent child, led him to embrace trees and the sylvan surroundings of the National Library Campus at that time. He sat beside trees, studying the poetry of the contours of tree trunks, the textures of its bark, sketching it all for hours after school. Nature nurtured him and it became the soul of his art. His quest for light as 'hope' in his paintings, the mystical aura, hailed by critics, that he has mastered of light and colour, comes from the elements of Nature, rain and river, hail and storm, – life's struggles from his humble beginnings. His passion for creating remained undaunted and the moment he could take the plunge, he chose the life of an artist.
Academy of Fine Arts - Midsummer Exhibition
Manav Gupta
Academy of Fine Arts, Kokata, India
July 31 - August 14, 1987
Press:
"...and the black and white drawing of an ensemble - like burgeoning banyan trunk (Manav Gupta) also compel attention."
Young Painters, Sameer Dutta, Art Critic, Statesman, Exhibition Review
Academy of Fine Arts - Annual Exhibition
Manav Gupta
Academy of Fine Arts, Kokata, India
June 19 - June 25, 1987
Press:
"...a good many of them were of a considerable standard... Manav Gupta's 'echoes unheard' in watercolour... deserved mention."
Eye Catchers at Xavier's Show, Shankar Majumdar, Art Critic, Exhibition Review
EXHIBITIONS
First Solo
Manav Gupta
Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, India
April 2 - April 7, 1996
Seeing the Unseen, Earth Series
Manav Gupta
Taj Bengal, Kolkata, India
August 15 - August 19, 1997
India Awaiting - Timeless Metaphors of Dreams
Manav Gupta
Taj Palace, New Delhi, India
May 27 - May 30, 1999
VHAI Gallery
Manav Gupta
VHAI Gallery, New Delhi, India
1999
CRY - Child Relief and You
Manav Gupta
CRY Foundation, New Delhi, India
1999
Rainforests & Lyrics of Light
Manav Gupta
HRD Ministry, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India, New Delhi, India
September 5, 1999 - January 31, 2000
Aqueous Dreams
Manav Gupta
The Roosevelt House, U.S. Ambassador‟s residence, New Delhi, India
February 26 - February 27, 2001
Sense to Essence, Pratirupa Pururpa
Manav Gupta
Leela Palace, Bangalore, India
June 7 - June 28, 2002
Business Leadership Awards - Kumar Managalam Birla & K V Kamath
Manav Gupta
Times of India & Amity Foundation, Mumbai, India
June 7 - June 28, 2002
Collaborative Book, Poems by Shiela Gujral, Paintings by Manav Gupta
India International Centre, New Delhi, India
2002
Plant a Sapling on my Canvas
Manav Gupta
The Park, New Delhi
2003
Victoria Jones Gallery
Manav Gupta
Victoria Jones Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2004
The Life Tree, Collaborative Book, Poems by Hon'ble President of India, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Paintings by Manav Gupta
Rashtrapati Bhawan (Residence of the President of India), New Delhi, India
2005
Shoonya - from Beyond
Manav Gupta
National Academy of Art (Lalit Kala Academy), New Delhi, India
2005
Umbilical Cords of Earth & Shoonya (from beyond)
Manav Gupta
Rashtrapati Bhawan (Residence of the President of India) Hosted by Hon'ble President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
2005
Public Art Project: Environmental Films as Public Service Messages
Manav Gupta
Ministry of Forests & Environment, Govt of India
2005 - 2006
Christies Charity Auction
Manav Gupta
Christies Charity Auction, New Delhi
2006
Travelling Trilogy I - UK, Muscat, South Asia
Manav Gupta
London, UK, Muscat, Oman, New Delhi, India
2007
Bonhams Charity Auction
Manav Gupta
Bonham's Charity Auction, Asia House, London, United Kingdom
2007
Omani Fine Arts Society
Manav Gupta
Omani Fine Arts Society, Muscat, Oman
2007
Hitachi Singapore, Limited Edition TVs Launch
Manav Gupta
Hitachi Singapore, New Delhi
2007
Copenhagen Wall of Hope
Manav Gupta
Copenhagen Wall of Hope, CNN IBN, New Delhi, India
2009
Curtain Raiser, Exhibition – 'On my eyot, Travelling Trilogy II'
Manav Gupta
ICCR, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt of India, New Delhi, India
2009
'Ode to Turner, Tribute to Tagore,' – London
Manav Gupta
Nehru Centre, London, United Kingdom
2010
Indian Embassy, Berlin
Manav Gupta
Embassy of India, Tiergartenstraße, Berlin, Germany
2010
Gallery A3, Amherst, MA
Manav Gupta
Gallery A3, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
2010
Bank of India, New York
Manav Gupta
277 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States of America
2010
Interdisciplinary Practices, Des Moines
Manav Gupta
Des Moines Social Club, Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
2010
San Jose State University, CA
Manav Gupta
San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States of America
2010
On my eyot, San Francisco
Manav Gupta
San Francisco, California, United States of America
2010
PRESS
1996
1996 | The Telegraph | Gargee Bhattacharjee | Different Strokes – Why Manav Gupta is an artist with a difference
1996 | The Statesman | Young Artist First Solo Birla Academy Of Art And Culture.
1997
1997 Inside Outside Manav Gupta and his expressions of freedom.
1997 Impressions Ajanta Mallick A poet and a painter, Manav Gupta’s exhibition of water colours and sculptures at the Taj Bengal.
April 15, 1997 | Femina | Touch Wood: A wood from the designer.
September 1997 The Economic Times
Dec 15, 1997 Femina | Emerging Forms Flowing Colours.
1999
June 04, 1999 | The Statesman | Soumik Mukhopadhyaya | Progressing On Promise. Abstraction or realism, earth tones dominate the works of Manav Gupta
3rd June 1999 | Delhi Diary | Art Scene : Manav Gupta’s India Awaiting
June 1999| Indian Express | Review, Art Critic Nirupama Dutt | Words date the visuals
June 1999 | Hindustan Times HT Sunday Magazine | Poonam Goel |Painting It His Way
May 30th, 1999 | CATALOGUE- India Awaiting Timeless Metaphors of Dreams
June 1999 | MUST SEE MUST DO | Delhi Times | His exuberant and reflective paintings depict his acute sense of colouration
2001
February 26th 2001 | First City | Manav Gupta’s Exhibition at the Roosevelt house
February 24 2001 | Self Taught Painter of Many Colours
February 2001 | First City | Manav Gupta’s Exhibition at the Roosevelt house
February 2001 | Inside Outside | Colours That Speak
February 2001 | Around Town | Art and the Artist
March 03, 2001 | Hindustan Times |Shelly Anand | Timeless Metaphors Of Dreams
March 1st 2001 | Delhi Times | The Countdown has begun
March 9, 2001 | The Statesman | Art for Gujarat
2002
2002 | Today | From Pen to Palatte | Gupta and Kalam
June 8 2002 | City Express Bangalore | Ram Jeth Malani and Shatrugan Sinha Inaugurate Manav Gupta’s Pururupa: Sense to Essence” | Leela Palace Bangalore | Lyrical Landscapes
June 2002 | The Bangalore Age | Ram Jeth Malani and Shatrugan Sinha Inaugurate Manav Gupta’s art exhibition.
June 10 2002 | City Express Bangalore | Painter Poet Philosopher
June 2002 | The Times of India | Magic and Art | MP Shatrugan Sinha and Former Law Minister Ram Jeth Malani Inaugurate Gupta’s show at the Leela Palace
June 9th 2002 | City Reporter | Many forms – Unmodified Nature
Nov26-Dec2, 2002 |Neighbourhood Flash Magazine | Romancing With Earth And Eyes |
2002 | Paintings by Manav Gupta | Sparks | Shiela Gujral | ISBN 81-7764-351-7
November 2002 | Society | A brush with the President
April 2002 | First City | Umbilical Cords of Earth | April 2002 | First City | Manav Gupta | The artist is stubbornly watercolourist
April 6 2002 | HT CITY, Hindustan Times | In Perfect Consonance with Nature’s figures | Meeta Mishra
April 23 2002 | Financial Times | There is Big Money in Art | Sanjay Kumar Singh
2002 | Deccan Herald | Medium Matters
June 8 2002 | City Express | Lyrical Landscapes
Bangalore Times | Dancing to the Beat of Poetry | Nayare Ali
Today – “The Capital’s Afternoon Newspaper” | Now, a Brush with Birla | Vanita Singh
June 2002 | Swagat | Calendar Of Events| Art exhibition of paintings by Manav Gupta comprising the series “Foliage, Figure, Intimate Whispers
2003 – 2004
July 2003 | Society | Page 21 | Events of the month | Manav Gupta’s Exhibition on World Environment Day
June 9th 2003 | HT City | Brushtalk on Rainforests: Elemental by Nature | Meenakshi Kumar
August 1st 2003 | Femina | “To mark the world environment day, painter Manav Gupta created a series of paintings, ‘Rainforests on my eyot’ at The Park, New Delhi. Seen here Chief Minister Sheila Dixit wielding the paintbrush (on Manav’s canvas)” | Events
Delhi Times Entertainment Plus (Special Edition ) | “Intimate Whispers on my Eyot, the recent exhibition of Manav Gupta is about love- the sensuality of the gaze- the timeless metaphors of dreams, the soft caress of awakening dawn and the receding dusk immersed in the romance of water colours.” Habiart Gallery Till September 4
April 15th 2003 | HT City | All for The Girl-Child: A Mix of Music and Art | Barsha Nag Bhowmick
April 16th 2003 | HT City | Mudgal’s Music, Gupta’s Art: A concert with a heart | Somashukla Sinha Walunjkar
April 26th 2003 | Delhi Times | Fashion With Passion | Gupta’s collaboration with Satya Paul | Delhi is Talking about.
June 2003 | Times Of India | Artist Manav Gupta has brought a series of paintings on nature.|
August 2003 | Hindustan Times | Vinita Faridi | Nothing Careless About The Whisper |
April 12, 2003 |Times of India |Amitaha jugalbandi
Feb 08, 2003 |Times Of India | Picture Perfect |
Till September 4 | Times of india | Intimate Whispers, Habiart Gallery |
2002/2003 |The Times Of India | Poetry In A Pub | Loveleen Kakkar
January 2004 | Profile | Scaling New Heights | Kishore Singh | Business Standard
2004 | Tell Me Ma ! | Poems by Shiela Gujral, Illustrations by Manav Gupta | Author- Shiela Gujral | ISBN 81-7764-507-2
2005
October 17 2005 | Asian Age New Delhi | Poetry Unites artists and writers.
December 26 2005 | Delhi Times | Call of Creativity.
November 2005 | First City | From Beyond – Watercolors by Manav Gupta.
18th Nov 2005 | The Poetry Society India Invitation |PRESENCES :A dislogue in painting and poetry : Manav Gupta.
2005 Penguin | The Life Tree | Poems and Paintings | A P J Abdul Kalam.
October 1-15 2005 | Sun City News | Perfect Strokes | Debanjana Choudhuri.
2006
Nov 01, 2006 | Awarded Sanatan Sangeet Sanskriti’s Samman Samaroh 2006 | Presented by French Ambassador to India
November 10th 2006 | Christies – Lot48_bid | Umbilical Cords of Clay, Air and Water Watercolour on Paper 60 x 48 inches
October 2006 | Indian Designs & Interiors | The Ambient Canvas of Space | Pg 74-78
January 2006 | Samvada | There’s more to Manav than Art and Poetry – Hindustan Times
November 2 2006 | India Today | Arty Strings | Nishita Bhatnagar
June 14 2006 | Hindustan Times | Natures Call | Sujata Shakeel
December 15 2006 | Darpan | Poetry on Canvas
December 2006 | Indian Designs & Interiors | Live Art
Dec 2006 | IDI Magazine | Around Town
2007 – 2008
July 17 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | Manav Gupta with President Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
August 7 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | Manav Gupta joins ‘Unity-A Relief Effort’ initiative
August 7 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | ‘Generation Next’ enthrals | Manav Gupta painting
August 8 2007 | OMAN DAILY | OSFA to host works of leading Indian artist,Oman Society for Fine Arts is hosting an exhibition by the Internationally acclaimed Indian artist Manav Gupta
August 12 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | Bank Muscat presents The Premiere of an exhibition of paintings by manav gupta
August 12 2007 | TIMES LEISURE | Article by Palazhi Ashok Kumar | His art is his heartbeat | Manav’s paintings will not only touch your hearts but also simulate your feelings. Musical Brush,With a stroke of his brush, Manav Gupta paints a picture with the rythm from live music to enthrall the audience duing the fund raising events.
12th-23rd August 2007 | Bank Muscat Press Release
August 13 2007 | OMAN DAILY | Article by Hasan Kamoonpuri | Catch young Indian artist live in action on 17th and 23rd,12 day Manav Gupta exhibition opens at OSFA
August 14 2007 | OMAN DAILY | Trying to merge art with poetry
August 15 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | Manav Gupta portrays freedom on canvas
August 15 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | Wishing INDIA a great future as it celebrates its INDEPENDENCE DAY, Painting by Manav Gupta
August 15 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | A toast to India’s unity and integrity, Painting by Manav Gupta based on a poem by former Indian President Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
August 16 2007 | OMAN DAILY | Manav Gupta’s live painting show
August 2007 | The Week | Performance Painter
August 2007 | Urbane | An artist par excellence
July 2007 Vol-1-Issue 2 | Delhi Expat Insider | A taste of visual poetry
October 28 2007 | The Sunday, Delhi Newsline ExpressIndia | An Arty Pact |Antoon Cox
December 15 2007 | Darpan | Poetry on Canvas | Art Mart | Mamta Upadhyaya | Issue: Dec 2006- Jan 2007
August 17 2007 | H! | Painting exhibition, Darwish bin Ismail bin Ali AL Baloushi, secretary-general at the Ministry of Finance,opened a 12 day painting exhibition by renowned Indian artist Manav Gupta at the Omani Society for Fine Arts.
August 17, 2007 | BEC Groupt Presents Heart 2 Heart featuring Manav Gupta
August 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | Generation Next featuring Manav Gupta
August 20 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | Manav’s latest painting attracts heavy bids
August 18 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | Renowned painter and poet Manav Gupta with Anil Wadhwa, Indian ambassador to the Sultanate.
August 19 2007 | TIMES LEISURE | Taking a centrestage featuring Manav Gupta
August 22 2007 | TIMES OF OMAN | Anup Jalota Live featuring Manav Gupta
August 22 2007 | MIRROR | Brush that listens
London 2007 | Bonhams-Asia House, London 2007 | Art for Freedom | Tehelka | ISBN 81-87890-08-8
Nov 02, 2007 |Hindustan Times | Chetana Joshi Bambroo | Artvistic |
2007 | Hindustan Times |Earth on Canvas |
March 16, 2007 | Hindustan Times | Adding Spice To Life
Persona Magnified | Karan Sondhi | Manav Gupta | ISBN 978-81-7010-362-2
October 2008 | Design & Interiors | Celebration of Inner Light
July 2008 | Eyeview | Volume 3, No. 2 | An Evening of Indian Poetry at Habitat by Manav Gupta
January 30 2008 | Femina | What lies beneath
August 2008 | The Noidan | Volume 1 | No. 9 | Noida Icon : Manav Gupta | Earthy Designs
October 20 2008 | Dainik Jagran | Furniture and Painting | 5598
2009
December 2009 | Indian Horizons | Volume 56 No 3-4 | Azad Bhavan Art Gallery
December 29, 2009 | Delhi Times | Delhi is Talking About – Manav’s Taken up the climate cause through art “When it’s about Climate, Make Yourself Heard!”
2009 Catalogue | Indian Council for Cultural Relations present Manav Gupta | A curtain raiser
December 2009 | Indian Horizons | Volume 56 No 3-4 | Azad Bhavan Art Gallery
January 2009 | Eyeview | Volume 4 | Manav Gupta and his cadence of colours
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