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{{Infobox artist
| name = Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh
| image = G M Sheikh.jpg
| caption = at Ahmedabad, 2008
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1937|02|16}}
| birth_place = [[Surendranagar]], Gujarat, India
| nationality = Indian
| field = Painting
| movement = [[Baroda Group]]<ref>{{cite web |title=His name is listed as Baroda Group of Artists’ fifth annual exhibition of paintings by |url=https://aaa.org.hk/en/collection/search/archive/ratan-parimoo-archive-baroda-group-of-artists-fifth-annual-exhibition-of-paintings-1961-1962/object/notes-regarding-baroda-group-of-artists-fifth-annual-exhibition-of-paintings-28711 |publisher=[[Asia Art Archive]]}}</ref>
}}

'''Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh''' (born 16 February 1937) is a painter, poet and [[art critic]] from [[Gujarat]], India. He was awarded the [[Padmashri]] in 1983 and [[Padmabhushan]] in 2014 for his contribution in field of art.<ref>{{cite news|title=Paes, Gopichand, Yuvraj, Dipika Get Padma Awards|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Paes-Gopichand-Yuvraj-Dipika-Get-Padma-Awards/2014/01/25/article2019990.ece|access-date=26 January 2014|newspaper=www.newindianexpress.com|date=26 January 2014}}</ref>

==Early life==
Sheikh was born on 16 February 1937 in [[Surendranagar]] (now in [[Saurashtra region]] of Gujarat, India). He [[matriculation|matriculated]] in 1955. He completed B. A. in Fine Art in 1959 and M. A. in 1961 from [[Faculty of Fine Arts]], [[Maharaja Sayajirao University]] of [[Baroda]]. He received ARCA from [[Royal College of Art]], London in 1966.<ref name= "agsi">{{cite book|title=અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ - આધુનિક અને અનુઆધુનિક યુગ (History of Modern Gujarati Literature – Modern and Postmodern Era)|first=Prasad|last=Brahmabhatt |publisher=Parshwa Publication|location=Ahmedabad|year=2010|pages=34–39|language=gu|isbn=978-93-5108-247-7}}</ref><ref name="contem">{{cite web|title=Gulam Mohammad Sheikh|url=http://www.contemporaryindianart.com/gulammohammed_sheikh.htm|access-date=17 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423201029/http://www.contemporaryindianart.com/gulammohammed_sheikh.htm|archive-date=23 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Gulam-Mohmad-Shekh.html|title=સવિશેષ પરિચય: ગુલામમોહમ્મદ શેખ, ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ - Gulam Mohmad Shekh, Gujarati Sahitya Parishad|website=www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artintaglio.in/ArtistProfile.jsp?ArtistId=185|title=Art Intaglio > Gulam Mohammed Sheikh - Indian Artist, Painter|website=www.artintaglio.in}}</ref>

==Career==
In 1960, he joined as a professor of Fine Arts in the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. His teaching positions have included teaching art history in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda (1960–63 and 1967–81,) and as Professor of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda (1982–1993). He has been a Visiting Artist at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]] in 1987 and 2002, and a Writer/Artist in Residence at Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy (1998), at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] (2002), and at Montalvo, California (2005).{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

Sheikh has been a major figure in the world of Indian art for more than four decades. He has participated in major exhibitions all over the world and his works are displayed in private and public collections including the [[National Gallery of Modern Art]] in New Delhi, [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in London and the [[Peabody Essex Museum]] in Salem, USA. Ghulam has been active not merely as an artist but also as a teacher and writer.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

His collection of [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] surrealistic poems, ''Athwa'' (1974) won him considerable critical acclaim. He has also written a prose series, ''Gher Jatan'' and edited a special issues of ''Kshitij'' as well as ''Vishwamanav'' and ''Sayujya'' magazines. ''American Chitrakala'' (1964) is his translated work.<ref name= "agsi"/>

==Style==
"Sheikh's art is by its nature," writes Chaitanya Sambrani, "one that takes on task of narrating, and therefore, recreating the world. There is a close tie-in between this narrative and an act of mapping the world, which gives to the speaking subject the possibility of addressing the world as his/her own". Recently Sheikh had been working on the Mappa Mundi series where he defines new horizons and ponders over to locate himself in. Sheikh construes these personal universes enthused from the miniature shrines where he urges the audience to exercise the freedom to build up their Mappa Mundi.<ref name="Lal1992">{{cite book|author=Mohan Lal|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: sasay to zorgot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&pg=PA4006|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1221-3|page=4006}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh lives with his artist-wife [[Nilima Sheikh|Nilima]] in [[Vadodara]], India.

==Awards==
* National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1962.
* [[Padmashri]] by [[Government of India]], 1983<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2009) |url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs |access-date=17 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510095705/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf |archive-date=10 May 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref>
* Kalidas Samman, Madhya Pradesh Government, 2002.
* [[Padma Bhushan]] by [[Government of India]], 2014<ref>{{cite web | title =Padma Awards Announced |publisher=Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs| url = http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=69364 |date=25 January 2014|access-date = 26 January 2014}}</ref>

==Guest Lectures==

* "[http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=664&EventID=102475 Among Many Cultures and Times]", Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 21 March 2013.

==Exhibitions==

* Solo Exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, 1960
* National Exhibition, New Delhi, 1962
* The VII Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan, 1963
* Cinquieme Biennale de Paris, Paris, 1967
* 25 Years of Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 1972
* Contemporary painting of India, Belgrade, Warsaw, Sofia, Brussels, 1974
* III Triennale (India), Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 1975
* Place for People (6 artists), Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay and Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 1981
* Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, Festival of India, London, 1982
* Returning Home, Solo Exhibition (a retrospective selection of work from 1968 to 1985) at Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Modeme, Paris, 1985
* Timeless Art, exhibition and auction, Times of India sesquicentennial at Victoria Terminus, Bombay, 1989
* Realism as an Attitude, IV Asian Art Show, Fukuoka, Japan, 1995
* Two-person show (with Bhupen Khakhar), Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA, 2002

==Publications==
2017, 'Nirkhe te Nazar', a collection of writings on visial arts in Gujarati, Samvad Prakashan, Vadodara & Khsitij Sansodhan Prakashan Kendra, Mumbai.
* Athwa (poems in Gujarati), Butala, Vadodara 1974.
* [[Laxma Goud]], monograph on the artist, Hyderabad, A. P. Lalit Kala Akademi, Hyderabad 1981.
* Contemporary Art of Baroda (ed.), Tulika, New Delhi 1996.
* Essays, articles and papers in 'Marg', 'Journal of Arts & Ideas', 'Lalit Kala Contemporary' as well as Hindi and Gujarati journals.
* Exhibition catalogues of K G Subramanyan, Jeram Patel, Laxma Goud, DLN Reddy, D Devraj, etc.

==Bibliography==

* [[Geeta Kapur]], Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy, London,1982
* Ajay Sinha, Revolving Routes, Form, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1983
* From Art to Life (interview with Gieve Patel for exhibition catalogue), Returning Home, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1985
* Timothy Hyman, Sheikh's One Painting, Returning Home (exhibition catalogue), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1985
* New Figuration in India, Art International, Spring 1990
* Geeta Kapur Riddles of the Sphinx, in Journeys (exhibition catalogue), CMC Gallery, New Delhi, 1991
* Kamala Kapoor, New Thresholds of Meaning, Art India, Quarter 3, 2001
* Palimpsest, interview with Kavita Singh, (exhibition catalogue), Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2001
* Kamala Kapoor in Valerie Breuvart (ed.) VITAMIN P : New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press, London/ New York 2002
* [[Gayatri Sinha]], The Art of Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh, Lustre Press / Roli Books, New Delhi, 2002
* Zecchini Laetitia, "More than one world: An interview with Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh", Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol. 53, 1-2, 2017

==See also==
* {{Portal-inline|Biography}}
* {{Portal-inline|India}}
* {{Portal-inline|Art}}

==References==
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{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Art}}
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