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{{Infobox artist<br />
| name = Geeta Vadhera<br />
| alma_mater = [[College of Art, Delhi]]<br />
| website = https://geetavadhera.in/<br />
}}<br />
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'''Geeta Vadhera''' is an Indian artist. She has exhibited her oil paintings and has published a book of poetry.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Geeta Vadhera was born in India to a father who was a poet and a mother who was an artist.<ref name="Pao">{{cite news |last1=Pao |first1=Yee Mei |title=An artist's absolute view of the universe |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19880610-1.2.83.20.4?ST=1&AT=search&k=Geeta%20Vadhera&QT=geeta,vadhera&oref=article |access-date=4 March 2022 |work=[[The Straits Times]] |date=10 June 1988 |language=en-SG}}</ref> She studied for a Bachelor of Arts at the [[College of Art, Delhi]] and undertook further research in France and Germany.<ref name="Dass">{{cite news |last1=Dass |first1=Prabhavathi |title=Artist with a poet's heart |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19871023-1.2.63.17.9?ST=1&AT=search&k=Geeta%20Vadhera&QT=geeta,vadhera&oref=article |access-date=4 March 2022 |work=[[The Straits Times]] |date=23 October 1987 |language=en-SG}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Geeta has shown her artworks in Asia, Australia and Europe.<ref name="Khaleej">{{cite news |title=Straight from the heart |url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/article/straight-from-the-heart-4 |access-date=4 March 2022 |work=[[Khaleej Times]] |date=7 October 2011 |language=en}}</ref> In 1986, she showed her paintings at the Orchard Point Gallery in Singapore and the following year at the [[Funan Centre]].<ref name="Srinivasan">{{cite news |last1=Srinivasan |first1=Radhika |title=Translating philosophy into pictures |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19860513-1.2.67.25.3?ST=1&AT=search&k=Geeta%20Vadhera&QT=geeta,vadhera&oref=article |access-date=4 March 2022 |work=[[The Straits Times]] |date=13 May 1986 |language=en-SG}}</ref><ref name="Dass" /> In 1988, she exhibited 24 paintings at the Arts Festival Fringe.<ref name="Pao" /> In 2011, she took her oil paintings to Dubai.<ref name="Khaleej" /> Her art has been inspired by the [[Sufi poetry]] of [[Bulleh Shah]] and the ''[[Isha Upanishad]]''.<ref name="Shah">{{cite journal |last1=Shah |first1=Zeeshan Jawed |title=Preserving Sufi Poetry through Visual Arts |journal=International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews |date=2015 |volume=2 |issue=4 |url=http://ijrar.com/upload_issue/ijrar_issue_221.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Srinivasan" /><br />
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Geeta has a studio and gallery in [[Gurugram]], a satellite city of [[New Delhi]].<ref name="DTG">{{cite web |last1=Showker |first1=Fred |title=The Art and Visions of Geeta Vadhera |url=https://graphic-design.com/wp-content/uploads/graphic-design.com/Gallery/vadhera/index.html |website=DT&G Magazine |access-date=4 March 2022}}</ref><ref name="BA">{{cite web |title=Geeta Vadhera|url=http://www.babelearte.it/tipoartista.asp?arid=513&lid=# |website=Babele Arte |access-date=4 March 2022}}</ref> She published a book of poetry written in Hindi, entitled ''Ansh'' (''A Part of Me'') and also has written books about art for children.<ref name="Dass" /><ref name="IBI">{{cite book |title=Indian Book Industry |date=1989 |publisher=Sterling Publishers |page=31 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Indian_Book_Industry/IQfjAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> In 2021, she addressed a [[Horasis]] event discussing art after the [[COVID-19 pandemic in India]].<ref name="RtW">{{cite web |title=Run The World Events |url=https://www.runtheworld.today/app/c/HorasisIndiaMeeting |website=Run the World |access-date=4 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Awards and recognition ==<br />
Geeta received the Bharat Nirman super achiever award in 1995.<ref name="Bharat Nirman">{{cite web |title=Super Achiever Awards |url=https://bharatnirman.org/awards.html |website=Bharat Nirman |access-date=16 February 2022}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
[[Modern Indian painting]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:20th-century Indian painters]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:Indian women painters]]<br />
[[Category:Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows]]<br />
[[Category:People from Gurgaon]]<br />
[[Category:Delhi University alumni]]<br />
[[Category:Women artists from Delhi]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian women artists]]<br />
[[Category:Painters from Delhi]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Indian women artists]]<br />
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