Recognition
Awards & honours
- Seven Gold Medals from the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
- Seven Silver Medals from the University of Calcutta
- Rabindra Bharati award and Shiromani Puraskar
Artist profile · Saraswati Foundation collection
Ganesh Haloi
A distinguished modern Indian artist whose landscapes move between observed terrain and lyrical abstraction, shaped by memory, displacement and long engagement with the natural world.
Practice & perspective
Landscape, memory and the inner terrain
Born in 1936 in East Bengal, now Bangladesh, Haloi moved to Kolkata after Partition. He studied at the Government College of Art and Craft and worked with the Archaeological Survey of India from 1957 to 1963, documenting the Ajanta cave paintings. He later taught at the Government College of Art and Craft in Kolkata.
Haloi’s practice developed from landscape toward abstract “innerscapes”: quiet, carefully composed forms that hold traces of place, migration and remembered terrain. The National Gallery of Modern Art records his work in its collection.
Selected presentation
Exhibitions
- 2017 · documenta 14, Athens and Kassel
- 2022 · Re-citing Land: Ganesh Haloi—Six Decades of Painting, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation with KNMA
- Form and Play · Akar Prakar
Public collections
Collection
The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, holds works by Haloi, including the painting Landscape (oil on canvas). His work has also been presented by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.
The featured work is catalogued in the Saraswati Foundation collection.
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