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Somenath Hore

Somenath Hore

Somnath Hore is one of the pioneers of the 20th century modern art movement in India. He is respected not only as an important artist but also as a political activist, who has, over the years, boldly used his talents as a graphic artist and sculptor, to express his own personal angst against a socio-political system which breeds acts of violence. The most poignant and powerful statement made by Somnath Hore as an artist, is his pulp print series called “Wounds”. It was the cataclysmic decade of the 1940’s, especially the Bengal Famine of 1943 which shaped and moulded his consciousness as an artist. Somnath has often expressed concern over man’s inhumanity against man and blatant violation of human values—whether it be casteism, communalism, the frightful fallout from nuclear blasts and society’s inability to preserve human dignity. EDUCATION # Initially studied Science for Bachelor?s Degree for sometime. # 1957 Diploma in Fine Arts, Govt. College of Art and Craft, Calcutta. EXHIBITIONS # 1956, 57, 58, 61, 68 Exhb in Calcutta. # Contemporary Indian Art, USSR, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. # 1960 Lugano International Graphics Biennale, Switzerland. # 1960, 63, 65, 67 Exhb. in New Delhi. # 1962 Tokyo Prints Biennale, Tokyo. # 1962 Venice Biennale, Italy. # 1963 Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil. # 1966 International Association of Plastic Artists Exhb., Tokyo and Calcutta. # 1968 1st Triennale of World Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. # 1968 Warsaw Biennale of Graphic Arts, Poland. # 1991 National Exposition of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. # 1993 Wounds, organized by CIMA Art Gallery, Calcutta and National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. # 1996 Contemporary Indian Paintings from the Chester and Davida Hertwitz Collection Part II, USA. # 2003 Manifestations, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, World Trade Center, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi. # 2004 Manifestations II, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai a COLLECTION # Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. # National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. # Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. # Bahai Museum, Bahai. # Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi. # Various Private Collections in India and abroad. AWARDS # 1960 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. # 1962 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. # 1963 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1954-58 Lecturer, Indian College of Art and Draughtsmanship, Calcutta. 1958-67 Senior Lecturer and Head of Graphic Arts Faculty, Delhi Polytecnic of Art, New Delhi. 1958-67 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Fine Art, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda and Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan. 1966 Visiting Professor in Graphic Arts Faculty, Faculty of Fine Art, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. Since 1969 Head, Graphic Arts Deptt., Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan. 1968-69 Visiting Professor, Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan. 1984 Professor Emeritus, Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan.

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