Contemporary Indian Art

Born in 1978, Meetali Singh obtained M.F.A. Graphic Arts from the M.S. University of Baroda and later did her B.F.A. Painting from Banaras Hindu University. The talented artist has won a National Cultural, Scholarship, H.R.D., Government of India (2004-06). She has been awarded INLAKS Fine Arts, New Delhi in 2006 apart from Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi Award, Ahmedabad (2005); Gold Medal, M.S. University, Baroda (2004), and Annual Award, Faculty of Visual Arts, B.H.U. in (1999-2002). She has taken part in several important group shows. The artist proclaims that she does not belong to any particular school of art, and does not believe in making a statement through art. She tries to fathom ‘what I am as an individual’, albeit neither in any particular socio-political context nor in context of my immediate milieu. Painting for her is a quest to answer self-posed queries. She lives and works in Vadodara.