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{{short description|Indian painter and sculptor|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| birth_place = Delhi, India
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| occupation = Painter<br>sculptor
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| known for = Modern art
| spouse = Inderjit Singh Bawa
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| website = {{Url|hemibawa.com|Website}}
| awards = [[Padma Shri]]
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'''Hemi Bawa''' (born 1948)<ref name="Corning Museum of Glass">{{cite web |title=Inspired by steel / by Hemi Bawa |url=https://www.cmog.org/library/inspired-steel-hemi-bawa |website=Corning Museum of Glass |access-date=31 October 2021}}</ref> is an Indian painter and sculptor. Her works include acrylic and glass paintings and sculptures made of cast glass, fibre glass and copper-fired glass.<ref name="Padma Shri is a recognition of my art: Hemi Bawa">{{cite web | url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/padma-shri-is-a-recognition-of-my-art-hemi-bawa/40910 | title=Padma Shri is a recognition of my art: Hemi Bawa | publisher=Mid Day | date=11 April 2009 | access-date=13 February 2016}}</ref>

Bawa was born in Delhi and did not have any formal training when she started painting in 1962.<ref name="Harry Winston and Hemi Bawa">{{cite web | url=http://www.jotimpex.com/news-events/harry-winston-and-hemi-bawa/ | title=Harry Winston and Hemi Bawa | publisher=Jot Impex | year=2016 | access-date=13 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216165332/http://www.jotimpex.com/news-events/harry-winston-and-hemi-bawa/ | archive-date=16 February 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Later, she studied Scandinavian glassmaking techniques and started working on that medium and also in combination with metal, wood and acrylic.<ref name="Meet the Artist - Hemi Bawa">{{cite web | url=http://www.cmog.org/event/meet-artist-hemi-bawa | title=Meet the Artist – Hemi Bawa | publisher=Corning Museum of Glass |year=2016 | access-date=13 February 2016}}</ref> In 1996, [[Coca-Cola]] commissioned her for a sculpture, to be displayed during the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in [[Atlanta]] and the eight-foot high work is now on display at the Coca-Cola Museum in the city.<ref name="Padma Shri is a recognition of my art: Hemi Bawa" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=May 31, 1996|title=Sculptor Hemi Bawa's Coke bottle selected for Atlanta Olympics|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/eyecatchers/story/19960531-sculptor-hemi-bawas-coke-bottle-selected-for-atlanta-olympics-832990-1996-05-31|access-date=2021-03-21|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref> She has had solo and group exhibitions in India and abroad, including the ''Glass Dimension'' show<ref name="India`s glass diva sparkles again">{{cite web | url=http://zeenews.india.com/home/indias-glass-diva-sparkles-again_552713.html | title=India's glass diva sparkles again | publisher=Zee News | date=4 August 2009 | access-date=13 February 2016}}</ref> and '' India Art Fair 2012'' at Delhi.<ref name="Hemi Bawa explores the power of present">{{cite web | url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/article331630.ece | title=Hemi Bawa explores the power of present | work=The Indian Express | date=15 January 2012 | access-date=13 February 2016}}</ref>

The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2009, for her contributions to Arts.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |year=2016 |access-date=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref> Her life and works have been documented in ''Hemi Bawa'', a book by Alka Pande, published in 2010.<ref name="Hemi Bawa">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.in/Hemi-Bawa-Dr-Alka-Pande/dp/B009HL8P6Y | title=Hemi Bawa | publisher=Om Books | first=Alka | last=Pande | year=2010 | isbn=9788174367938}}</ref> She is married to Inderjit Singh Bawa, an industrialist, and the couple lives in Delhi, along Hailey Road.<ref name="Artistic impressions">{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/hemi-bawa-home-lutyens-delhi-artist-elements/1/173890.html | title=Artistic impressions | work=India Today | date=16 February 2012 | access-date=13 February 2016}}</ref>

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== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en6glmCIogM | title=Hemi Bawa 2012 | work=YouTube video | publisher=Artspeaks India | date=1 November 2012 | access-date=13 February 2016}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book | title=Hemi Bawa | publisher=Om Books | first=Alka | last=Pande | year=2010 | isbn=9788174367938}}

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