Rameshwar Broota Indian, b. 1941
Rameshwar Broota attended the Delhi Polytechnic College of Art from 1960–64. An artist interested in commenting on existing times, his paintings in their formative stage depicted a young painter’s anguish at the inequality and imbalances that led to all kind of sufferings in the society around him. Broota has a simple ideology guiding him through his career, which is based on humanism. Broota speaks of his painting with undiluted simplicity even as he locates himself firmly within the ordinariness of the vast Indian middle class.
Over the course of his career Broota has received several awards and honors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lalit Arpan Festival, New Delhi in 2013; the Kala Vibhushan by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi, in 1997; the National Award by the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, in 1980, 1981 and 1984, to mention a few. He has had several solo shows and retrospectives, including the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2014); XVA Gallery Dubai, Dubai (2012); Akriti Art Gallery, Kolkata (2011); 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai (2011); Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2011 and 2009), among others. His group participations include Ojas Art, New Delhi (2012); Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon (2011); Aicon Gallery, London (2010–11); Gallery Threshold, New Delhi (2010); Vadehra Art Gallery (2010), and more.
The artist lives and works in New Delhi.
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Rameshwar Broota | Scripted in Time II
D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 30 April - 4 May 2019Read more -
RAMESHWAR BROOTA | Scripted in Time
D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 2 - 20 February 2018Read more -
Rameshwar Broota: This End to the Other | Recent Photographs
D-178, Okhla Industrial Area 6 - 31 March 2011Read more -
Rameshwar Broota | Counterparts
D-178 Okhla Industrial Area, New Delhi 14 - 21 February 2009Read more -
Rameshwar Broota: Photographs
D-178 Okhla Industrial Area 8 - 18 December 2007Read more
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INDIA ART FAIR 2023
NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla, New Delhi 9 - 12 February 2023With a diverse roster of artists across conditioning, intention, practice and cultural attitudes – including A. Ramachandran, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi, Biraaj Dodiya,...Read more -
THE ARMORY SHOW
THE LIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON 8 - 11 September 2022In the Hero’s Journey, Joseph Campbell contends that a hero – “someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself” –...Read more -
Frieze London 2021
A Brief Current 13 - 17 October 2021A Brief Current features a collection of recent artworks by leading Indian contemporary artists Rameshwar Broota, Atul Dodiya, Anju Dodiya, Sunil Gupta, Shilpa Gupta and...Read more -
India Art Fair 2020
30 January - 2 February 2020Read more
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Art is an expression of the unconscious mind: Rameshwar Broota on relevance of ‘Man Series’ during pandemic
By Akrita Reyar | Times Now News 10 September 2020Renowned painter Rameshwar Broota is one of the leading artists of the country whose works are part of esteemed collections like the National Gallery of...Read more -
Rameshwar Broota's unsettling visions of paranoias and vulnerabilities in our moment of reckoningRameshwar Broota's unsettling visions of paranoias and vulnerabilities in our moment of reckoning
By Ankush Arora | FirstPost 26 July 2020When Kiran Nadar made one of her first purchases as an art collector in 1998, her husband Shiv, in her own words, was “horrified”. Being...Read more -
An exhibition of Rameshwar Broota’s new work makes a subtle comment on the violence in our lives
By Georgina Maddox | The Hindu 18 February 2018In a studio hidden from prying eyes, on the fourth floor of Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi, artist Rameshwar Broota’s latest creation is taking shape....Read more -
Creative instincts
By Sukant Deepak | India Today 6 October 2017What is interesting about Rameshwar Broota's art is the fact that it undergoes multiple transformations almost every decade. Take for example his early works in...Read more -
Brush with canvas: ‘Art of any form must make us think & reflect’
By Parul | The Indian Express 24 September 2017NOTHING CAN compel Rameshwar Broota to paint, for he believes that only when he has something to say, will he put his brush to canvas....Read more -
Unrestrained images
By Vinay Mishra | The Tribune 21 September 2017The Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi is organising a talk and audio-visual presentation by renowned artist and photographer Rameshwar Broota on September 21 at the auditorium...Read more -
VISIONS OF INTERIORITY: INTERROGATING THE MALE BODY RAMESHWAR BROOTA
By Meenakshi Thirukode | Asian Art Pacific 15 March 2015“Visions of Interiority: Interrogating the Male Body,” at Delhi’s Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA ), was the first comprehensive exhibition of Rameshwar Broota, a...Read more -
The Descent of Man
By Rosalyn D’Mello | Open Magazine 14 November 2014We were never meant to know the truth behind the final work made by Jonas, the protagonist in Albert Camus’ story The Artist at Work....Read more -
Table for Two: A journey within
By Shailaja Tripathi | The Hindu 29 October 2014A vegetarian tom yum soup, crispy eggplant and spring rolls are all Rameshwar Broota settles for at lunch with us in Jasmine restaurant of The...Read more -
Bare and there: A look at Rameshwar Broota's masterpieces
By Sumit Malik | Hindustan Times 22 October 2014Titled Visions of Interiority: Interrogating The Male Body, the retrospective, curated by Roobina Karode, features some of Broota's finest works. With an artistic career of...Read more -
Fifty Stages of Man: Rameshwar Broota’s palette has held many a delightful encounters
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 16 October 2014Studies of his own anatomy have become digital fragments on archival prints. But, the 1963 canvas is a far cry from his present-day personality. The...Read more -
Retrospective | 'Rameshwar Broota: Visions of interiority: Interrogating the male body' at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art 14 October 2014Amongst his generation of artists, Rameshwar Broota, much like the solitary male figure in his imagery, stands distinctly alone in his consistent engagement with the...Read more -
Imprints of man on nature
By Christopher Lord | The National News 17 December 2012Shot from above, over the Indian city of Haridwar, the scene is a rammed-together jumble of low-rise houses in which the great river is nowhere...Read more
