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| field = Visual Art
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| name = Ganesh Haloi
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| birth_place = Jamalpur
| birth_date = 1936
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}}'''Ganesh Haloi''' is an India-based visual artist, curator, and author.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/spending-lifestyle/ganesh-halois-work-on-display-at-kolkatas-akar-prakar/artist-deeply-impacted-by-british-council-exhibition/slideshow/19076883.cms|title=Ganesh Haloi's work on display at Kolkata's Akar Prakar|website=The Economic Times|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/an-unflinching-gaze/cid/1664856|title=An unflinching gaze|website=www.telegraphindia.com|language=en|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Ganesh was born in 1936 in [[Jamalpur District|Jamalpur]] village in [[Mymensingh]] (now in Bangladesh) and spent much of his childhood. His family came to [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], India in 1950 after the India-Pakistan Partition. In India, he started with a job of sketcher with [[Archaeological Survey of India]] to make copies of paintings in Ajanta Caves. He later worked at the [[Government College of Art & Craft|Government College of Art and Craft]] as a faculty member.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/artist-ganesh-haloi-gets-state-award-for-autobiography/cid/1740845|title=Artist Ganesh Haloi gets state award for autobiography|website=www.telegraphindia.com|language=en|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/indian-artist-ganesh-haloi-modern-indian-art-documenta-14-europe-4658608/|title=Veteran Indian artist represents modern Indian art in a two-city exhibition in Europe|date=2017-05-16|website=The Indian Express|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref>

== Exhibitions ==
* Form and Play (Kolkata and New York)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2020/vivacity/memories-on-canvas.html|title=Memories on canvas|last=Pioneer|first=The|website=The Pioneer|language=en|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/living/form-and-play-a-new-exhibition-highlights-how-ganesh-halois-paintings-oscillate-between-the-seen-and-the-sensed-5879711.html|title=Form and Play: A new exhibition highlights how Ganesh Haloi's paintings oscillate between the seen and the sensed|website=Firstpost|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref>
* Documenta 14 (Athens 2016, Kassel 2017)<ref name=":1" />
* Poetics of Abstraction (Kolkata January 2018) <ref>{{Cite news|last=Das|first=Soumitra|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/in-ganesh-halois-forthcoming-exhibition-in-kolkata-geometric-forms-get-a-life-of-their-own/article22435224.ece|title=In Ganesh Haloi’s expo, geometric forms get a life of their own|date=2018-01-13|work=The Hindu|access-date=2020-03-03|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
* Art: Bengal Now (Delhi January 2020)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asianage.com/life/more-features/250120/bengali-beauties-on-canvas.html|title=Bengali beauties on canvas|date=2020-01-25|website=The Asian Age|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref>

== Awards and recognition ==
* Manojmohan Basu Smarak Samman for his autobiography ''Amar Katha''<ref name=":0" />

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