Ganesh Haloi was born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh in 1936. Haloi graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft in Calcutta in 1956.In 1957, he joined the Archaeological Survey of India. Ganesh Haloi returned to Calcutta where he taught at the Government College of Art and Craft since 1963 till his retirement. Few of his group exhibitions include: Tracing Time, Bodhi Art, Mumbai (2009), Above and Beyond, Aicon Gallery, New York (2010). His important participations include: Shanghai Art Fair, China (2008), Moderns, Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan organized by Lalit Kala Akademi (2008), Manifestations V, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi (2011)

WORK

Untitled
by Ganesh Haloi
water colour on paper

Untitled
by Ganesh Haloi

Untitled
by Ganesh Haloi
water colour on paper
2005

ESSAYS

Scrolling through the Remnants: Ganesh Haloi's The Architectonics of Form

by Brishti Modak

The Architectonics of Form: Scrolls by Ganesh Haloi, the latest solo exhibition of the master artist curated by Jesal Thacker at Akar Prakar Kolkata (April 23-July 16, 2022), brings together his long-time preoccupations with naturalism and abstraction. The 23 works on display, created with Chinese

A fertile land of pellucid light

by Soumitra Das

Ganesh Haloi's paintings may remind one of Jibanananda Das's poem, " Abar Asibo Phire", where the poet imagines that he would return to Bengal by the banks of the Dhansiri river, as a bird if not a human, and to the rivers, pastures and farmlands of his love, to the melancholy of the greenery

Ganesh Haloi

Scrolling through the Remnants: Ganesh Haloi's The Architectonics of Form

A fertile land of pellucid light

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