jyoti bhatt

Born in 1934 in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, he completed Diploma in Painting with Graphic Arts and Post Diploma Specialisation in creative painting from M.S. University of Baroda. 1956-66 he became the Founder member and Secretary, Baroda Group of Artists, Baroda. He traveled in Germany under International- German Cultural Dept Programme. Jyoti Bhatt’s mission as a painter and a graphic artist is to preserve and to seek inspiration from the fast-disappearing folk art traditions of rural India. Since the Seventies, Bhatt, a member of the Group 1890, has been inspired by the colourful stylized motifs of cross-stitch embroidery, rangoli motifs and the use of traditional calligraphic ideograms from his native Saurashtra.

EXHIBITIONS:

Participated in the National Exhb., Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Participated in the Annual Exhb., Bombay Art Society, Bombay. Kalidasa Art Exhb., Ujjain. 1959, 61 International Biennale for the Young Artists, Paris. 1963 Group 1890 Show, New Delhi. 1969 Sao Paulo Triennale, Brazil. 1969 Painters with Camera, Bombay. Through the Indian Eyes, Indian Photographers Show, Holland. Six Indian Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. 1998 Multimedia- Art of the 90s, CIMA Art Gallery, Calcutta. 1998 Printed Image- An Overview Retrospective Exhb. of Graphic Prints 1961-98, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai. 1999 Solo exhb., Centre for Photography, National Center for Policy Analysis and The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. Icons and Symbols, CIMA Art Gallery, Kolkata. 2004 Printed Image- An Overview Retrospective Exhb. of Graphic Prints, ABS Bayer Gallery, Baroda. 2005 Manifestations III, organised by Delhi Art Gallery and Nehru Center, Mumbai.

COLLECTIONS:

National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. Craft Museum, New Delhi. Art Heritage, New Delhi. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Smith Sonnian Museum, Washington DC. Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Dsseldorf Art Museum, Dsseldorf. British Museum, London. Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. Centre for Photography, National Center for Policy Analysis, Mumbai. CIMA, Kolkata. Pheroza Godrej, Mumbai. Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.

 Jyoti Bhatt lives and works in Vadodara.