Gogi Saroj Pal

Awards & honours

• Sanskriti Award (1980)
• Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship (1981–82)
• Junior Fellowship, Department of Culture, Government of India (1986–88)
• National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi (1990)

Biography

Gogi Saroj Pal (1945–2024) was an Indian artist born in Uttar Pradesh. She studied at Banasthali, the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Lucknow, and the College of Art, New Delhi. Working across painting and other media, she developed a practice centred on the human condition and, in particular, the experience of women.

Her recurring Kamadhenu motif became one of her most recognisable visual ideas, evoking generosity and creation while also confronting the pain of exploitation. The result is an oeuvre that is both lyrical and searching, intimate and socially alert.

Exhibitions & residencies

Selected documented exhibitions from DAG, shown here as examples rather than a complete list:

• The Manifestations series, Editions V, VII, VIII, IX, X and XI (2011–14)
• Indian Landscapes: The Changing Horizon (2012)
• The Naked and The Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art (2013 New Delhi; 2015 Mumbai)
• Indian Divine: Gods & Goddesses in 19th and 20th Century Modern Art (2014)
• Indian Portraits: The Face of a People (2013 New Delhi; 2014 Mumbai)
• Navrasa: The Nine Emotions of Art (2020)
• Indian Blue: From Realism to Abstraction (2021)
• Ways of Seeing: Women Artists | Women as Muse (2021)
• A Place in The Sun: Women Artists from 20th Century India (DAG New York, 2022)
• Kali: Reverence and Rebellion (2024)

In the collection

One Foundation work is featured here.

Sources

• Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation
• DAG World — Gogi Saroj Pal
• DAG — Gogi Saroj Pal exhibition
• Tao Art Gallery