Working on paper and canvases, Professor Sharma, as he is popularly known, creates intricate imagery in bold lines and geometric forms. In a harmonious mix of abstraction, and tantric forms his compositions evoke mystery and an ethereal energy. He taught at the College of Art and School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and headed the College of Art as its Principal for several years. His work has been exhibited at numerous exhibitions in India and abroad, He has been felicitated with many awards and honours including  the Lalit Kala Academy’s National Award for Painting, First Prize (thrice) for the Annual Art Exhibitions of AIFACS and the awards won at various state exhibitions.

Om Prakash Sharma lives in Delhi and works from his studio there.

Education

Graduation Meerut College (Drawing and Painting) -1951 The National Diploma in Fine Arts ( First Class and Distinctions ), Delhi Polytechnic.- 1958 Postgraduate studies in Fine Arts and Art History, Columbia University and Art Students League, New York. – 1964 – 1966

Teaching

1981-1992 – Principal, Collage of Art, New Delhi. 1961-1981 – Head, The Art Department, the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. 1956-1961 – Senior Art Teacher, Goverment Model School, Ludlow Castle, Delhi. 1951-1956 – Art Teacher, D.A.V School Paharganj, New Delhi.

Projects

1968-1971 – Four Exhibitions on Nehru, Gandhi, Non-Violence and Shri Aurobindo, Nehru Memorial Museum, New Delhi. 1958, 1959, 1961, 1972, 1976,1981 – designed and executed large murals for the National and International trade fairs and exhibitions. 1986 – design works for NAMYFEST.

Music and Films

Maintains an active interest in Music and Dance, has studied North Indian Classical Music and plays the Sitar since 1956. Has performed in India and abroad including lecture demonstrations. In 1970, planned and collaborated to make a series of four short films on Indian Classical Musicians. Several Radio and TV Talks and Interviews on Art. Films including ‘On the Journey of Art – Om Prakash – by Doordarshan, India , 1987 : ‘ Neo Tantra’ by Bombay Broadcasting Company, Los Angele, USA, 1996. Release of two CD’s of his music on Sitar and Om Veena in 2013. Awards  

1969 – National award for Painting by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Several awards in State Exhibitions including First Prizes in Annual Art Exhibitions of the A.I.F.A.C.S., New Delhi. (1966, 1967, 1969 ) 2003 – Delhi State Award from the chief Minister of Delhi. Honorary Membership of Russian Academy of Fine Art, Moscow.

He tries to set up a dialogue between the images and their private associations in his paintings. He tries to raise his paintings above an exercise in mere technical and skillful competency. Though there is disparity in his choice of subjects, his paintings can visually be grouped together, as they naturally bond by a similarity in theme, concept, execution and attitude. His figures speak directly and forcefully, and keep the viewers absorbed. His dialect is local, but its interpretative language makes it valid in a global multilingualism. He discovers his own self in the multiplication of images, and give it a metaphorical sensibility.

He has many solo shows to his credit, and his work is in many private collections in India and abroad.

Solo Exhibitions
2011 To Prepare a Face – II, by MEC art gallery, New Delhi
2007 Lakiren aur Rang” at Daira gallery .Hyderabad
2006 Aspect Of Art in London
2005 To Prepare a Face, BY by MEC art gallery, New Delhi.
2004 Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi,
2003 Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi,
2000 By mec art gallery, New Delhi Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi,
2001 Organised by Asian Academy of Film & Television
1999 by MEC art gallery Ravindra Bhawan, New Delhi
Exhibition Participated
2001 National Exhibition, Banaglore organised by Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.
2001 All India “Millenium Young Artists Camp” organised by AIFACS, New Delhi.
1997-98 AIFACS Annual Exhibition New Delhi
1995 East Zone Youth Festival at Rewa, University M.P.
1993 State Exhibition oraganised by INTACH, Bhubaneswar
1993 Sate Exhibition organised by NALCO, Damanjori
1991-94 Orissa State Lalit Kala Academy, Bhubaneswar

He tries to set up a dialogue between the images and their private associations in his paintings. He tries to raise his paintings above an exercise in mere technical and skillful competency. Though there is disparity in his choice of subjects, his paintings can visually be grouped together, as they naturally bond by a similarity in theme, concept, execution and attitude. His figures speak directly and forcefully, and keep the viewers absorbed. His dialect is local, but its interpretative language makes it valid in a global multilingualism. He discovers his own self in the multiplication of images, and give it a metaphorical sensibility.

He has many solo shows to his credit, and his work is in many private collections in India and abroad.

Solo Exhibitions
2011 To Prepare a Face – II, by MEC art gallery, New Delhi
2007 Lakiren aur Rang” at Daira gallery .Hyderabad
2006 Aspect Of Art in London
2005 To Prepare a Face, BY by MEC art gallery, New Delhi.
2004 Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi,
2003 Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi,
2000 By mec art gallery, New Delhi Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi,
2001 Organised by Asian Academy of Film & Television
1999 by MEC art gallery Ravindra Bhawan, New Delhi
Exhibition Participated
2001 National Exhibition, Banaglore organised by Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.
2001 All India “Millenium Young Artists Camp” organised by AIFACS, New Delhi.
1997-98 AIFACS Annual Exhibition New Delhi
1995 East Zone Youth Festival at Rewa, University M.P.
1993 State Exhibition oraganised by INTACH, Bhubaneswar
1993 Sate Exhibition organised by NALCO, Damanjori
1991-94 Orissa State Lalit Kala Academy, Bhubaneswar

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