Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, hosts a show of works by talented artist Sajid Bin Amar.

He is an artist known to ‘build up’ a surface gradually. Sajid Bin Amar paints and slowly scratches the paint away. In the process, he makes graffiti-like pictures. The result is a body of highly stylized and nice-looking work. The method that he has worked out is applied in all the mixed media works.  For this particular show (from 11 to 26 September), his etchings and wood-cuts are on display.

Sajid Bin Amar received his Diploma in drawing, painting & printmaking from J.N.T, University, Hyderabad. Later he completed a Masters in Fine Arts (Painting & Printmaking)at  Central University of Hyderabad. A host of venues that have hosted his solos comprise J.N.T University, Hyderabad (1986, 88); Kalayatra, Bangalore (1988); Central University of Hyderabad (1989, 91); Society for Promotion of Art, Hyderabad (1991), Gallery Espace, Delhi (1991,94, 98) and Pundole Art Gallery (1999, 2004, 08).

He has participated in several group shows Fifth Biennale of Indian Contemporary Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal and Renaissance Gallery, Bangalore (1994); ‘The Young Contemporaries’, Drawings at Lakeeren, Mumbai (1995); Pundole, Mumbai (1993, 95); 50 years of Art in Independent India by AIFACS & Hyderabad Art Society; Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (1997); ‘Art in Objects’, Holiday-Inn-Krishna at Hyderabad (1998), among others.

He has secured University Gold Medal during his M.F.A at Central University, Hyderabad as well as Junior fellowship from Ministry of Human Resources, Dept. of Culture, Govt. of India. The artist is based in Hyderabad.