Surendra Pal Joshi
{{short description|Indian artist}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Surendra Pal Joshi
| image = Surendra_Pal_Joshi_in_2012.jpg
| caption = Surendra Pal Joshi in 2012
| birth_date = 23 July 1955
| birth_place = Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
| death_date = 12 June 2018 (aged 62)
| death_place = Jaipur, India
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| education = Lucknow College of Arts and Crafts
| spouse = {{marriage|Sangeeta|1988}}
| children = 2
| awards = National Art Award, Lalit Kala Akademi
}}
Surendra pal Joshi was an Indian artist known for his use of experimental techniques in paintings, sculptures and murals.{{cite news |title=Renowned artist Surendra Pal dead {{!}} Jaipur News - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/renowned-artist-surendra-pal-dead/articleshow/64580655.cms |work=The Times of India |date=14 June 2018 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Khimani |first1=Yunus |title=ARTIST COMMUNITY: A spirit that soared, touched so many lives {{!}} Jaipur News - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/a-spirit-that-soared-touched-so-many-lives/articleshow/64579661.cms |work=The Times of India |date=14 June 2018 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=नहीं रहे प्रसिद्ध चित्र शिल्पी सुरेंद्रपाल जोशी, जानिए उनकी बुलंदियों का सफर |url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hi&u=https://www.jagran.com/uttarakhand/dehradun-city-picture-artist-surendra-pal-joshi-no-more-18078972.html&prev=search&pto=aue |work=Dainik Jagran |date=14 June 2018 |language=hi}} His works are in the collection of Uttara Museum of Contemporary Art in Dehradun, India.{{cite news |title=नहीं रहे अंतरराष्ट्रीय चित्रकार सुरेंद्र पाल जोशी, जयपुर के अस्पताल में ली अंतिम सांस |url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hi&u=https://www.amarujala.com/dehradun/international-painter-surendra-pal-joshi-passes-away&prev=search&pto=aue |work=Amar Ujala |publisher=Amar Ujala |date=13 June 2018 |language=hi}}
Early life
Surendra pal Joshi was born on 23 July 1955 in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. In 1980, he joined Lucknow College of Arts and Crafts in Uttar Pradesh and completed his bachelor’s degree in fine arts afterwards.
Career
Surendra pal Joshi moved to Jaipur and later in 1988 started working as an assistant professor at the Rajasthan School of Art. In 2008, he took voluntary retirement (VRS) from work and continued working on paintings. Joshi had done 22 solo exhibitions in his time and created several murals. His abstract paintings and murals have received many awards at national and international levels. Some of his designed murals are displayed at places like Indian Oil Corporation in New Delhi, Hindustan Unilever in Mumbai, and Shipping Corporation of India in Visakhapatnam. In 1997, Joshi received fellowship from Britain to design murals in Cardiff, UK.
In 2015, Joshi started working at Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority
building complex in Dehradun to give shape to the state's first art museum, Uttara Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum was inaugurated by state’s Chief Minister in late 2017, a few months before Joshi’s demise.
The museum includes his sculptures, paintings, murals, installations, digital-print photographs, and videos constituting his reflections and responses to the devastation and rescue efforts he had witnessed during visits to the ravaged mountains in the aftermath of the 2013 North India floods.{{cite news |last1=Chakrabarty |first1=Arpita |title=Dehradun museum recalls the 2013 floods that wiped out chunks of Uttarakhand |url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/dehradun-museum-recalls-the-2013-floods-that-wiped-out-chunks-of-uttarakhand/article25577352.ece |work=The Hindu |date=24 November 2018 |language=en-IN}}
Works
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Awards and honours
- National Art Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.{{cite news |title=प्रख्यात चित्रकार सुरेंद्र पाल जोशी का निधन |url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hi&u=https://www.livehindustan.com/uttarakhand/dehradun/story-renowned-painter-surendra-pal-joshi-passes-away-2011535.html&prev=search&pto=aue |work=Hindustan |date=13 June 2018 |language=hindi}}
- Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO.
- Gold Medal, UNESCO.
- All India Award, Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy.
- Fellowship for Mural Design by the British Council.
- Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award, New Delhi.
- All India Award, Tilak Smarak Trust, Pune{{Cite web |title=Imago Mundi Collection |url=https://imagomundicollection.org/artworks/surendra-pal-joshi-untitled |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=imagomundicollection.org}}
Personal life
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Surendra Pal Joshi}}
- [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/indias-first-disaster-museum-opens-in-dehradun/articleshow/60944976.cms India's first disaster museum opens in Dehradun, The Times of India, 2017]
- {{WorldCat|oclc=874248914|name=Art Konsult presents a solo show by Surendra Pal Joshi (curated by Uma Nair)}}
- {{WorldCat|oclc=813568528|name=Surendra Pal Joshi’s paintings & murals (Academy of Fine Arts & Literature, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai)}}
- {{WorldCat|oclc=688644748|name=Memory Lines paintings by Surendra Pal Joshi (Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai)}}
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Category:20th-century Indian sculptors