SUJATA BAJAJ

Born in 1958 in Jaipur, Sujata Bajaj completed her graduation in Fine Arts from the SNDT College. She had also been working on a thesis on tribal art, what she calls "an extraordinary milieu, one peopled with ancient heritage and myth.”

In 1988, Sujata went to in Paris at Raza's insistence. France was a fascinating world, one that helped her "find the balance between Indian aesthetics and modern painting."

Each of her paintings act as a variation to her ancestral inheritance. Such as the presence of the ochre yellow and the red recalls the ritual circle of sacrifice; a hero-stone, a tribal totem, a lost goddess of fertility suggests certain motifs. Her oeuvre is experimented across diverse mediums such as etching, wood-cut, sculpture, murals, cold ceramic, fibre-glass, metal, and acrylics on canvas.

She has been associated with organizations such as UNESCO and IIFA and displayed works on global platforms such as Indiart at Tokyo, House of Lords at London , Shanghai Art Fair at China, to list a few. Sujata Bajaj has held a long association with Tao Art Gallery. Her works have been a part of many solo and group shows across  the years - Sacred Space (2000), Roop Adhyatma (2005), L’ Ordre du Monde (2007) to name a few. She has been a recipient of multiple prestigious awards including the French Govt. Scholarship (1988- 1989), Bombay Art Society Award (1991), Raza Foundation Award (2003), and many more.

Sujata Bajaj spends her time between Pune, Norway and Paris.