Jyoti Bhatt

Jyoti Bhatt
Born
Jyotindra Manshankar Bhatt

(1934-03-12) 12 March 1934 (age 90)
Bhavnagar, Gujarat
NationalityIndian
MovementBaroda Group[1]
SpouseJyotsna Bhatt
AwardsPadma Shri (2019)[2]
Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi (2022)

Jyotindra Manshankar Bhatt (12 March 1934), better known as Jyoti Bhatt, is an Indian artist best known for his modernist work in painting and printmaking and also his photographic documentation of rural Indian culture. He studied painting under N. S. Bendre and K.G. Subramanyan at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University (M.S.U.), Baroda. Later he studied fresco and mural painting at Banasthali Vidyapith in Rajasthan, and in the early 1960s went on to study at the Academia di Belle Arti in Naples, Italy, as well the Pratt Institute in New York.[3] He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2019[2] and elected as a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 2022.[4]

  1. ^ "His name is listed as Baroda Group of Artists' fifth annual exhibition of paintings by". Asia Art Archive.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Amrita Gupta Singh, Jyoti Bhatt: Parallels that Meet, Delhi Art Gallery, 2007 ISBN 978-81-904957-0-7
  4. ^ "Vice President confers Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Awards and National Awards of Lalit Kala Akademi to eminent artists". NewsOnAIR -. 9 April 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2022.