Paramjit Singh

Born in 1935 in Amritsar, Punjab, and studied Fine Arts at the Delhi Polytechnic, completing his diploma in 1958. About a decade later, Paramjit Singh travelled to Norway to study printmaking at Atelier Nord, an experience that expanded his artistic vocabulary and technical approach. Growing up amidst pastoral surroundings left a lasting impression on him, and memories of these landscapes continued to inform his work throughout his career.

He is best known for his luminous and meditative landscapes, where dense foliage, rugged hills, water bodies and open skies are rendered through rich colour, textured surfaces and rhythmic brushwork. His works move between realism and abstraction, often creating quiet, contemplative spaces that feel removed from the noise of urban life. Over the years, his practice evolved through several phases, including portraiture, still life and landscape, eventually leading to the atmospheric landscapes for which he is widely recognised today, including a body of charcoal landscape drawings produced in recent years.

He held his first solo exhibition at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, in 1967 and has exhibited extensively in India and internationally since then. In 1970, he received the National Award from the Lalit Kala Akademi, one of the country's most prestigious recognitions in the arts. His works are included in important private and institutional collections in India and abroad. Alongside his artistic practice, he also taught at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, where he later served as Professor Emeritus. The artist currently lives and works in New Delhi.