SYED HAIDER RAZA

Born in Barbaria, Madhya Pradesh, he studied at Nagpur and at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai.  A founding member of the Progressive Artists’ Group when it was formed in 1948, he was a pioneer for the cause of Modern Indian Art. In 1950, he won a French Government Scholarship and left to study at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, his first exposure to the country which would later become his second homeland. He has exhibited at the Biennales of Venice, São Paulo and Menton, and won numerous international prizes, including the Prix de la Critique (1956), and the Padma Shri awarded by Indian Government (1981). He was elected  Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi in  1983 and invited to teach at the University of California in Berkeley in 1962.  In addition to numerous solo shows in galleries around the world, his work has been included in several international exhibitions such as Indian Art Tomorrow, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (1986); Contemporary Indian Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York (1986); Artistes Indiens en France, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris (1985); India: Myth and Reality -  Aspects of Contemporary Indian Art, MoMA, Oxford, (1982); Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London (1982); and Pictorial Space, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (1977).. S.H. Raza lives and works in Paris and Gorbio, in Southern France.

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