A solo exhibition, featuring six decades of Gulammohammed Sheikh’s life in art, was inaugurated at the Durbar Hall in Ernakulam on December 13 as part of the sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, which will continue till March 31. Titled “Of Worlds Within Worlds”, it is curated by Roobina Karode, director and chief curator at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, and features over 100 artworks, including Sheikh’s oil paintings, pen-and-ink drawings, gouaches, sculptures, poems, kaavad and accordion books, graphic prints, photographs, installations, and digital collages.
Sheikh, who was born in 1937 in Surendranagar, Gujarat, earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He later taught painting and art history at the institute.
5 January 2026
