Sohan Qadri

Painter | India

Born in 1932

Died in 2011

« Sohan Qadri was a yogi, poet and a painter from India who lived in Copenhagen for 30 years. »

Sohan Qadri completed his master's from the Fine Arts, Government College of Art, Shimla in 1955-60. He is a Copenhagen-based artist who was introduced to yogic practices at the young age of seven. He also got the title of “Tantric yogi artist” from Francis Newton Souza. Experience: He worked on paper where he covered the surface of the paper with structural effects by soaking it in liquid and carving it in several stages while applying inks and dyes. The repetition of careful incisions on the paper was an integral part of his meditation. His works have been included in numerous collections, including those of the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; the Rubin Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; as well as the private collections of Cirque du Soleil, Heinrich Böll and Dr. Robert Thurman.

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Sohan Qadri was a yogi, poet and a painter from India who lived in Copenhagen for 30 years

Painter | India

Born in 1932

Died in 2011

Sohan Qadri
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Sohan Qadri completed his master's from the Fine Arts, Government College of Art, Shimla in 1955-60. He is a Copenhagen-based artist who was introduced to yogic practices at the young age of seven. He also got the title of “Tantric yogi artist” from Francis Newton Souza. Experience: He worked on paper where he covered the surface of the paper with structural effects by soaking it in liquid and carving it in several stages while applying inks and dyes. The repetition of careful incisions on the paper was an integral part of his meditation. His works have been included in numerous collections, including those of the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; the Rubin Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; as well as the private collections of Cirque du Soleil, Heinrich Böll and Dr. Robert Thurman.

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Credentials

Prizes
  • I.A.P.A.A. Award, Toronto 1982
  • Award in Painting, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1968
Solo Exhibitions
  • Sohan Qadri, ‘The Dot and the Dots’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
  • ‘Next Level’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
  • Sohan Qadri, ‘Dissolving Contours’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
  • Sohan Qadri, ‘Invocation’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
  • Sohan Qadri, ‘Drishti: A New Vision’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
  • ‘Prakriti: Contemporary Indian Art’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverley Hills
  • Sohan Qadri, ‘Seer: The Art of Sohan’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
  • Sohan Qadri: An Exhibition of Work in Gallery II, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
  • ‘Here & Now: Group Show’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
  • ‘In Your Mind’s Eye: An Asian Group Show’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
  • ‘Dimensions of Color: An Asian Group Show’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
  • Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverley Hills
  • ‘Spectrum: East/West/Beyond’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery
  • ‘Continuum’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
  • ‘Constellation’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
  • ‘Facing East: Contemporary Asian Art’, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York

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