Born 1937.
Taught art history, 1960-63 and 1967-81, Professor of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University of Baroda, India 1982-1993.
Visiting Artist, Art Institute of Chicago, 1987, 2002.
Residency at Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy, 1998. Writer/Artist in Residence, South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2000. Visiting Fellow, Delhi University, 2004,
Artist in residence, Montalvo, California, 2005.
Exhibitions include
National exhibition, New Delhi, 1962.Group 1890, New Delhi 1953, Paris 1963 and Tokyo 1967 Biennales, Triennale (India) 1975, Place for People, Bombay, New Delhi 1981, Timeless Art, Bombay 1989, Edge of Desire, Perth, New York, Mexico City, Berkeley etc
Several solo shows including Returning Home (a retrospective of work from 1968-1985) at Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris (1985); Pathavipath at CMC Art Gallery, New Delhi (1991); Kahat Kabir at Vadehra Gallery, New Delhi (1998); Palimpsest at Vadehra Gallery, New Delhi and Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2001); Mappings, The Guild at Museum Gallery, Mumbai (2004); City, Kaavad and Other works, vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2011).
Awards include
National Award 1962, Padmashri 1983, Kalidas Samman 2002, Ravi Varma Puraskar 2009. Padmabhushan 2014
Lectured widely on Indian art in India, Europe, USA etc.
Publications include
Contemporary Art in Baroda (ed.), Tulika, New Delhi 1996, Paroksa (co-edit), Lalit Kala Akademi, new Delhi, 1984, Essays in ‘Marg’, Mumbai, ‘Journal of Arts and Ideas’, New Delhi etc.
Bibliography:
Art of Gulammohammed Sheikh by Gayatri Sinha, Roli Pocket books, New Delhi 2002, New Perspectives in Painting : VITAMIN P, Phaidon Press, New York 2002
