Artists

GEORGE MARTIN P J

born in 1973, Angamaly, Kerala, India. He graduated from the College of Fine Arts, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala in 1988 and Post-Graduated from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata in 2000, both the degrees are in Sculpture.

His solo exhibitions are OBJECTIVE VOICE, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2009. CAVITIES, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2008. LOST ARTICLE, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 2007. FOOTLOOSE OF BLUE PENCIL, Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2006.

George has participated in numerous art exhibitions in india and abroad from 1995 which include: ‘Extending the Line’ - Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012. ‘Continuum’ - Singapore, Curated by Bhavana Kakar, 2011. ‘India Awakens - Under the Banyan Tree’, Essl Museum in Vienna, Austria ,Curated by Dr Alka Pande, 2010. ‘The art of India /20 years of Contemporary Indian Art’, presented gallery Neumeister/gallerie Muller & plate Munich, Germany, 2009. ‘The Sun Rises in the East - Contemporary Art from India’, Galerie Christian Hosp, Tirol,Austria, 2008. ‘Images/urban/Neon’, 1×1 gallery, Dubai, UAE and ‘Object- Making/Unmaking’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2007. ‘No Square Circle: Drawings by Sculptors’, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi and ‘Shifting Focus’, The Air Gallery, London in 2006. ‘Double-Enders’ at Jehangir Gallery Mumbai,& Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. ‘Sculpture by the Sea’, Bondi, Sydney in 2005. ‘The Making of India’ at Rabindra Bhavan, Delh, 2004. ‘Migration - City’ Home’, Birla Academy of Art And Culture, Kolkata, 2003.

He was awarded the Bodhi Best Student Award in 1998. Promising Artist Award, India Habitat Centre and Art India Magazine and the KAVA, Kashi Visual Art Award in 2005.

He lives and works in New Delhi.

georgemartinpj@gmail.com
let hundred flowers bloom (diptych) 157” x 47” - acrylic on canvas - 2013
message behind the peony flowers (Diptych) 94” x 47” - acrylic on canvas - 2013
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