Geeta Vadhera is an Indian artist. She has exhibited her oil paintings and has published a book of poetry.
Early life
Geeta Vadhera was born in India to a father who was a poet and a mother who was an artist.
She studied for a Bachelor of Arts at the
College of Art, Delhi
College of Art, New Delhi, established in 1942 under the arts department of the Delhi College of Engineering now the Delhi Technological University (DTU), is an art college for advanced training in Visual Art. It is run by the Government of ...
and undertook further research in France and Germany.
Career
Geeta has shown her artworks in Asia, Australia and Europe.
In 1986, she showed her paintings at the Orchard Point Gallery in Singapore and the following year at the
Funan Centre.
In 1988, she exhibited 24 paintings at the Arts Festival Fringe.
In 2011, she took her oil paintings to Dubai.
Her art has been inspired by the
Sufi poetry
Sufi literature consists of works in various languages that express and advocate the ideas of Sufism.
Sufism had an important influence on medieval literature, especially poetry, that was written in Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Urdu. Sufi doctr ...
of
Bulleh Shah
Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri ( pa, ; ; 1680–1757), known popularly as Bulleh Shah ( pa, ; ) and Bulleya, was a Punjabi philosopher and Sufi poet during 17th-century Punjab. His ancestors had migrated from Bukhara (modern-day Uzbekistan) ...
and the ''
Isha Upanishad
The ''Isha Upanishad'' (Devanagari: ईशोपनिषद् IAST ') is one of the shortest Upanishads, embedded as the final chapter (''adhyāya'') of the Shukla Yajurveda. It is a ''Mukhya'' (primary, principal) Upanishad, and is known in ...
''.
Geeta has a studio and gallery in
Gurugram
Gurgaon (pronunciation: ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...
, a satellite city of
New Delhi
New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Ho ...
.
She published a book of poetry written in Hindi, entitled ''Ansh'' (''A Part of Me'') and also has written books about art for children.
In 2021, she addressed a
Horasis
Horasis is an independent, international think tank, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2005, by Frank-Jürgen Richter, former director of the World Economic Forum, Horasis is dedicated to the innovation and development of sustainab ...
event discussing art after the
COVID-19 pandemic in India
The COVID-19 pandemic in India is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). As of , according to Indian government figures, India has the second-highest n ...
.
Awards and recognition
Geeta received the Bharat Nirman super achiever award in 1995.
See also
Modern Indian painting
The modern Indian art movement in Indian painting is considered to have begun in Calcutta in the late nineteenth century. The old traditions of painting had more or less died out in Bengal and new schools of art were started by the British. Initi ...
References
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20th-century Indian painters
Living people
Indian women painters
Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows
People from Gurgaon
Delhi University alumni
Women artists from Delhi
20th-century Indian women artists
Painters from Delhi
21st-century Indian women artists
Year of birth missing (living people)