Ganesh Haloi


Ganesh Haloi is an India-based visual artist, curator, and author. Ganesh Haloi's art has evolved through a series of transactions from pure landscape to the innerscapes.
Even though it is abstract, Haloi's works and his motifs have precise associations with the artist's psyche, his experiences and the upheavals that have shaped him and his point of view. "Everything begins in pain," says Haloi. He maintains high standards craftsmanship and his construction of tress, houses and the ambience of Kolkata that seems murky with a suppressed strength.

Early life

Ganesh was born in 1936 in Jamalpur village in Mymensingh and spent much of his childhood. His family came to Calcutta, India in 1950 after the India-Pakistan Partition.

Exhibitions

  • Form and Play
  • Documenta 14
  • Poetics of Abstraction
  • Art: Bengal Now
  • Sense and Sensation: Paintings in Ink and Brush at Akar Prakar. Curatorial Advisor: Debashish Banerji
  • The Architectonics of Form: Scrolls by Ganesh Haloi. Curated by Jesal Thacker at Akar Prakar, Kolkata, 2022

Awards and recognition

  • Manojmohan Basu Smarak Samman for his autobiography ''Amar Katha''