Riaz Samadhan

Mumbai, India

7 Works

Exhibitions

Riaz Samadhan Recent Abstracts, Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2015.

About Riaz Samadhan

Riaz Samadhan is a Mumbai based visual artist. He hails from Kolhapur.He works within the genres of Realism and Abstraction. His visual practice culminates from the Kolhapur School, the legacy which Abalal Rahiman and M V Dhurandar imparted through JJ School of Art’s Bombay School tradition of European Naturalism. This Academic leaning has enabled him to explore various mediums with great tenacity within genres such as landscape,portraiture, conceptual figurative, still-life and abstract. Within his practice, he experiments in various mediums such as Oils, Watercolors, Graphite and Gauche.

As he talks about his perspective about live works, he explains “when it comes to live paintings. ‘Observation’ is direct, this very act transforms’ the doer into a mere ‘presence’. It breaks the moulds of memories, conditionings, concepts and assumptions and replaces it with a fresh perception. This perception transforms the quality of the object, and our relation with it, it imparts a psychological perspective to delve into.”

Academics

Awards

Signature Membership, National Watercolour Society, San Pedro, California, USA in 2019.

Baburao Sadwelkar Award, Bombay art Society in 2019.

Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai in 2002.

Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai in 2001.

Art Society Award, Mumbai in 2002.

Outstanding Work Award, Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai in 1992.

Maharashtra State Award in 1992.

Maharashtra State Award in 1987.

Exhibitions

Riaz Samadhan Recent Abstracts, Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2015.

"The Diary of Riaz Samadhan", Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2011.

"Self Alienation: Celebration of Myopia II", presented by Art Heritage at Triveni Kala Sangam, NewDelhi in 2009.

"Self Alienation: Celebration of Myopia I", Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2008.

"Impact of Commercialization on Emotional Life’", The Osmosis Gallery, Mumbai in 2007.

"Riaz Samadhan recent works", Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2006.

"Journey to Zero", Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2004.

"Beginning", Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2002.

Broken Foot- Unfolding Inequalities, Mojarto.com in 2020.

Beyond Forms and Boundaries by Modern Art Gallery, Delhi in 2019.

Lalit Kala 60th National Art Exhibition, NGMA, Mumbai in 2019.

Payana, Sowgandika House, Puttur, Karnataka in 2019.

Busan International Art Fair, Bexco, Busan, Korea 2017.

Florence Biennale, Italy in 2017.

Santorini Biennale, Greece in 2016.

International Watercolour Society exhibition at Fabriano, Italy in 2015.

Mumbai vibe, an installation for BMW Guggenheim Lab, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai in 2013.

"Who Has Seen Gandhi?", Tangerine Art Space, Bangalore in 2010.

"Peripheries of the Whereabouts", Tangerine Art Space, Bangalore in 2009.

"New Perspectives of India", Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich, Swizerland in 2009.

"See You Again", Osmosis Gallery And Cymroza Gallery, Mumbai in 2008.

"Thought And Being", Osmosis Gallery, Mumbai in 2007.

All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi in 2007.

"Young Faces In Indian Contemporary Art", Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata in 2007.

"Harmony Show", Nehru Centre, Mumbai in 1997.

"Harmony Show", Nehru Centre, Mumbai in 1998.

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Works by Riaz Samadhan

Untitled

Oil on Canvas,
24 x 24 inches

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Still life

Oil on Canvas,
12 x 20 inches

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