Jeram Patel

1930

2 Artworks

JERAM PATEL was born in 1930 at Sojitra, Gujarat. He studied Drawing & Painting at Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai in 1950-55; in 1957-59 studied Typography & Design at Central School of Art & Craft, London; helped start 'Group 1890' in 1960; in 1973,76 & 78 Delegate XIV Biennale International Exhibition, Sao Paulo; in 1960 he was a member of Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi and in 1980 he was the Chairman of the same. He has held over 30 solo exhibitions in India and abroad. He has participated in several group shows: 1963 Group 1890, Tokyp Biennale Sao Paulo, Biennale; 1964 at South Florida, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Colorado Springs, San Francisco, Honolulu, Honkong, Manila and Singapore; 1967 Seven Painters, London; 1968 five contemporaries, Kunika Chemould, New Delhi; 1968, 75, 78,81 Triennale, India; 1970 Contemporary Indian Painters, Tehran, Iran & Art Today in Graphics & Drawings; 1973 Contemporary Indian Painting, Washington DC, USA; 1979 British International Print Biennale; Third World Biennale of Graphic Art: Baghdad & London Asian Artist's Exhibition, Tokyo; 1982 Contemporary Indian Art in Washington; 1985 Graphics Prints Exhibition, Festival of India USA, Graphic Art in India since 1850, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; 1989 East-West Encounter in Visual Art, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; 1994 Third Bharat Bhavan International Biennale of Prints, Bhopal; 28 Contemporary Indian Artists (Graphics), University of Victoria, USA, Drawings'96, New Delhi. He has received several awards: 1957,63,73,84 the National Award; 1976 National Award (Design); 1980 Gujarat State Akademi Award (Lithographs); 1992 Ravishankar Raval Award for Outstanding Contribution in the field of Painting, Gujarat; and 1994 Emeritus Fellowship, Government of India. He lives and works in Baroda. He died 18 January 2016. STATEMENT: Jeram Patel's art has always been 'against interpretation, and by its very nature has constantly repulsed any attempt to define and describe it in terms of production of 'meaning' or in terms of locating it in any specific context. We know that time and again Jeram Patel's links with surrealism and with auto-suggestional ways of working have been proposed and it has also been pointed out that his forms and images emerge with no bearing of narration or resemblance. Any identifications or parallels can at best be intuitive or some kind of guess work, as the works themselves are not willing to reveal their true identities.....The Poetics of Drawing, by Prayag Shukla...Art Heritage December, 2000.