Umesh Varma Biography
Banda, India, 1935 -
An established Indian artist and poet, Umesh Varma is prestigious painter and printmaker.
With degrees in Botany, Chemistry and Zoology, Varma turned to the arts and trained at the Delhi Polytechnic University (1958 ? 63).
He has also served as a Lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of New Delhi and received India's most prestigious award in visual arts, National Academy Award by the Lalit Kala Akademi, amongst several other recognitions and awards in India and Japan.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1966: Gallery Beni, Kyoto
1966: Gallery Ginpodo, Tokyo
1968: Triveni Gallery, New Delhi
1989: Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
SELECTED COLLECTIONS holding Varma's work include:
Taj Mahal Hotel Collection, Bombay
Lalit Kala Akademi
Government Museum, Chandigarh
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi