Satish Gupta

A versatile artist, Satish Gupta is the celebrated Indian painter, sculptor, poet, writer, graphic artist, draftsman, wall painter, designer, calligrapher, and potter rolled into one. His work, which was awarded the Sanskriti Prize early in his career, has been refined through a deep exploration of mysticism and the Zen spirit and has been shown in more than 37 solo exhibitions in major national and foreign art galleries, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Dubai, Bahrain, Antananarivo, London, Paris, Altea, Murcia, Amsterdam, Ljubljana, Vancouver, Ottawa, San Francisco, New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , Washington, and Melbourne.

Wings of Eternity was a multimedia event that featured an aerial dance performance by the renowned dancer Isha Sherwani and live gestural calligraphy by the artist on stage, which was presented at the Royal Opera House in Mumbai. He also did an art residency at St. Moritz, sponsored by the Reine Victoria Hotel, Basu Foundation for the Arts, and OFC, which inspired him to paint glaciers and waterfalls. Gupta painted a mile-long "MA" painting at Puducherry Beach. Many dancers performed the five elements and danced with him as he painted the canvas, which is considered the longest in the world. Mahesh Vinayakram   Mahesh Vinayakram is an Indian Vocalist, son of >> Read More... created live music to inspire him. This MA work on the five elements should sensitize the public to the need to conserve our resources and protect the environment. The Aurodhan Gallery featured the work and Vardhman sponsored the canvas.

Satish created works that were inspired by a visit to Mongolia. While visiting the Normandy beach in France, he painted "Roaring Sea-Still Mind" while attending a peace conference at the Tapovan Ashram. There he also exhibited his Zen scrolls. His book "Zen Whispers" was published at the 2018 Jaipur Literature Festival. He has participated in numerous international poetry conferences. Her writings have been published in English, Spanish, and Catalan. In early 2017 he painted live at the National Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana along with a demonstration of her calligraphic scrolls. A forward was written to the artist’s book of short stories and haikus by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, "I am the dewdrop, I am the ocean." and Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra blows candles on October 22, 1946. H >> Read More... wrote the foreword to his "Zen Space" folder.

Satish was invited to be the only Indian artist to create a lithograph as part of the official Olympic portfolio along with some other international artists Sandro Chia, Janice Kounellis, and Mimmo Paladino. In 2016, a film about his work was screened at the Estampa art fair in Madrid and the Asiatica Film Mediale in Rome. Known for his special meditative quality, Satish Gupta's art is created in his Zazen studio on the outskirts of Delhi, surrounded by a self-designed Zen garden.