Sudhir Patwardhan

Sudhir Patwardhan
Artist Sudhir Patwardhan at Kochi-Muziris Biennial 2014
Born	Maharashtra, India
Education	Armed Forces Medical College
Occupation	Artist

Sudhir Patwardhan is an Indian contemporary painter and a practising radiologist.

Early life

Patwardhan was born in Pune, Maharashtra in 1949. In 1972 he graduated in astronomy. He moved to Mumbai in 1973 and worked as a radiologist from 1975 to 2000.

Career

After 2005 he became a full-time artist. The city-scape features prominently in his canvases, and reflect the agonies of the urban middle class and poor. ^[1] Patwardhan's works are in the permanent collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai; Roopankar Museum, Bhopal; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts and other prominent private and public collections.

Select Exhibitions (National and International)

• 'Aspects of Modem Indian Art' Oxford, U.K. 1982
• Contemporary Indian Art, festival of India, London, 1982
• Seven Indian Artists, Hamburg, West Germany, 1982
• Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, New York, 1985
• Festival of India, Center George Pompidou, Paris 1986
• 'Coupe de Coeur' Geneva, 1987
• 'Gadyaparva Exhibition' Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (1990), 'Parallel Perceptions', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (1993)
• 'Contemporary Indian Painting from the Herwitz Family Collection Part I, auction by Sotheby's, New York, USA (1995, 96)
• 'Contemporary Indian Painters 96' Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1996)
• 'Charcoal & Conte' Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai (1997), Icons of the Millennium (Lakeeren Art Gallery), Mumbai
• 'Extreme Gourmet' Indigo, Lakeeren, Mumbai and Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK (2001)
• 'Walking Through Soul City', National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2019) ^[2]

External links

• "Sudhir Patwardhan – Paintings and Drawings – Main Page". sudhirpatwardhan.com.
• "Sudhir Patwardhan". guildindia.com.

References

1. "ArtAsiaPacific: Where I Work Sudhir Patwardhan". artasiapacific.com.
2. Ayaz, Shaikh (5 December 2019). "Mumbai: Sudhir Patwardhan's NGMA exhibit celebrates his love for the city". Architectural Digest India. Retrieved 29 October 2025.