About Manu Parekh

Born in 1939 in Gujarat, Manu Parekh studied at the Sir J.J.  School of Art, Mumbai. He has been exhibiting since 1967. A bold painter Parekh confronts the viewer by what he claims to be a “combination of unexpected and planned”. His surreal landscapes are fecund and sensual expressing libidinous imagery of fantastical organisms, part-bird-part-woman-part-vegetation; growing in and out of one another.

Other than these are his raw and ragged imagery of brutalised men and animals. His use of imagery is metamorphical and integral to the reading of his art work. He was awarded the President of India’s Silver Plaque in 1972, and he received the National Award from the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, in 1982, and the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1990. Manu Parekh lives and works in New Delhi.