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Somnath Hore

Somnath Hore

2 Works

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

‘Anguish Absorbed’, The Window, Mumbai in 1999

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About Somnath Hore

Somnath Hore, eminent Sculptor, Printmaker, Painter and Teacher, is regarded as an artist who stood ground with the working class and marginalised. A Padma Bhushan awardee, he was born in Chittagong in 1921.He has taught at multiple art institutions

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Somnath Hore, eminent Sculptor, Printmaker, Painter and Teacher, is regarded as an artist who stood ground with the working class and marginalised. A Padma Bhushan awardee, he was born in Chittagong in 1921.He has taught at multiple art institutions including Santiniketan. The anguished

Somnath Hore, eminent Sculptor, Printmaker, Painter and Teacher, is regarded as an artist who stood ground with the working class and marginalised. A Padma Bhushan awardee, he was born in Chittagong in 1921.
He has taught at multiple art institutions including Santiniketan.

The anguished human form has widely been reflected in Hore's figuration. His contorted bronze figurines recalled the agonies of famine and war, and became iconic emblems of modern Indian art. Somnath's artistic journey culminated in his Wounds Series of paper pulp prints, where he achieved a unique brand of abstraction, still holding onto humanism.

He died in 2006, at the age of 85.

Academics

Government College of Art & Craft

Awards

Lalit Kala Ratna Puraskar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in 2004

Gagan-Abani Award, Kolkata in 1984

Professor Emeritus, Santiniketan in 1984

L. N. Gupta Memorial Award in 1977

National Award (Graphics) for ‘Dream’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in 1963

National Award (Graphics) for ‘Birth of a White Rose’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in 1962

National Award (Painting) for ‘Companions’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in 1962

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

‘Anguish Absorbed’, The Window, Mumbai in 1999

‘Bronzes’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) Gallery, Kolkata in 1995

‘Wounds, Somnath Hore’s Bronzes, Drawings and Prints’, organized by Seagull, Kolkata at Sukh Sagar, Kolkata in 1992

Kolkata in 1991

‘Sculptures and Sketches’, organized by Kala Yatra at Sistas Art Gallery, Bangalore in 1988

Kunika-Chemould Gallery, New Delhi in 1973

Group Exhibitions:

Manifestations II, organized by Delhi Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2004

Manifestations, organized by Delhi Art Gallery at World Trade Centre, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2003

Contemporary Indian Paintings from the Chester and Davida Hertwitz Collection Part II, USA in 1996

‘Wounds’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) Gallery, Kolkata and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi in 1993

National Exposition of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi in 1991

‘Visions’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata in 1986

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Works by Somnath Hore

Untitled

Ink on Paper

15 x 11 inches, 1978

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Blacksmith

Water colour on paper

10 x 7 inches, 1960

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Dotwalk Shows

The Architecture of the Void: Lines on a Postcolonial Skeleton

The Architecture of the Void: Lines on a Postcolonial Skeleton

Group Exhibition

Curated by Dotwalk Curatorial and Research Team

18 Apr - 30 May 2026 at Gallery Dotwalk, Gurgaon

Badri Narayan, Bhupen Khakhar, Bireswar Sen, F N Souza , G R Santosh, J Swaminathan, Jangarh Singh Shyam, Jogen Chowdhury, K H Ara, K K Hebbar, Meera Mukherjee, Piraji Sagara, Prabhakar Barwe, Ram Kumar, Sadanand Bakre, Somnath Hore

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Featuring artists: The Architecture of the Void: Lines on a Postcolonial Skeleton

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