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Ram Singh Urveti
A painter from the Gond-Pradhan community, known for his paintings of trees, as well as his wall paintings at the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal – where he was also employed – Ram Singh Urveti had no formal education or training in painting. He arrived in Bhopal in 1992 and trained with the noted Pardhan artist, Jangarh Singh Shyam, with whom he lived for close to five years.
Urveti has been a part of notable exhibitions such as Contemporary Indian Tribal Popular Art at the Central Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris (France) in 1998; Shatabdi: Reflection of a Century Past at Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata in 2001; Freedom – on the occasion of India’s sixtieth anniversary of Independence – at CIMA, Kolkata in 2008; and Non-metropolitan: Five Contemporary Artists from India at Rob Dean Art Gallery in Pasadena, USA in 2010. His paintings are part of public collections in India at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal, Adivasi Lok Kala Parishad, Bhopal, Crafts Museum, New Delhi, Dakshinachitra, Chennai, Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum, Hyderabad as well as public and private collections in Japan, France, Russia, Brazil, Hong Kong, London, Washington, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Germany amongst others.
At the time of writing, Urveti lives and works in Bhopal.
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