Ajay Choudhary - Highly Celebrated Abstract Painter

Call him an amateur, a novice, maverick or a purist - Ajay Choudhary has etched himself onto the canvass of the intricate world of abstract art. A self-taught man, has surprised all with his deft strokes on the canvass. He is considered as a gifted abstractionist . Choudhary has showcased his creations in the top art galleries in the world and has won accolades from art connoisseurs. He is candid enough to admit that he is a self taught man and has taken to his childhood passion (painting) seriously. Noted global painter M.F. Husain has described Choudhary's paintings as "living art form". His imaginations and ideas for paintings are based on his experiences or observations from the daily life.

He has held Solo show at Sarjan Art Gallery Baroda , Ahmedabad-ni-Gufa in 2011, , 'Towards infinity' Open Studio and curated Solo show at The Loft at Lower Parel (Mumbai) in 2008 , 2008 Marvel Art Gallery ,Ahmedabad,2007AmdavadNiGufa,Ahmedabad, 2007‘BetweenLineandColor’,SarjanArtGallery, Baroda , 2005 Marvel Art Gallery, Ahmedabad , 2005 Open Palm Gallery, New Delhi ,2003 ‘Impressionist and Abstract’, Archer Art Gallery, Ahmedabad . He has participated in numerous group shows including 2009 ‘1x1 India ‘ Group Show at Taj Mahal Hotel , Mumbai , 2007 ‘Mridgandha’, Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S University, Baroda.

‘ A Stroke with Square’ a 22 mints documentary made on abstract Paintings of Ajay Choudhary. This film was shown at Morocco international film festivals , Kerala Film Festival, Calcutta Film Festival etc. A sound Installation ‘ CROCHET OF EMOTIONS’ was made by a Bollywood Music Director inspired by art works of Ajay Choudhary. He is life member of Bombay Art Society and Art Society of India . lives and works in Baroda and Ahmedabad .

Artist Statement

My paintings are essentially a form of rebellion. The key idea behind my paintings is to use abstraction as a means to comment on reality by a process embodying child like freedom and spontaneity to break the conventional inhibitions of a trained mind to project an unchartered abstract landscape of the abstruse.

The Biography

1975 Ajay Choudhary was born at Vill – Deori Kalan , Dist- Palamau , Jharkhand (INDIA)

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Solo Exhibitions

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2012 , SOLO Show at Sarjan Art Gallery , Baroda

2011 ‘Still Centre’ solo show at Amdabad Ni Gufa , Ahmedabad , India
2008 ‘Towards infinity’ Open Studio and curated Solo show at The Loft at Mumbai, INDIA 2008 Marvel Art Gallery , Ahmedabad , INDIA
2007 Amdavad Ni Gufa , Ahmedabad, INDIA

2007 ‘Between Line and Color’, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda, INDIA
2005 Marvel Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, INDIA
2005 Open Palm Gallery, New Delhi, INDIA
2003 ‘Impressionist and Abstract’, Archer Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, INDIA
1995,94,93,92 Hauz Khas, New Delhi, INDIA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015 . STAINLESS STEEL ART show at Gandhi nagar
.2014 ‘SENSES’ Group show at VINCENT art Gallery, Ahmedabad

‘NOIR/BLANC’ Group Show at The Loft at Lower Parel Mumbai 2013 ‘RECYCLED/REUSED’ OBJECTS , group show at MSU , BARODA . 2012 'UNTITLED' an art project put up at INDIA ART FAIR 2013

• 2009 ‘1x1 India ‘ Group Show at Taj Mahal Hotel , Mumbai

2007 ‘ The Marvelous Show’, organized at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘Mridgandha’, Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S University, Baroda
2005 Marvel Art Gallery, Ahmedabad
2004 Marvel Art Gallery, Ahmedabad

1990 State Bank of India, Bokaro, Jharkhand
1984 St. Xavier School, Bokaro, Jharkhand

Participations

2015 INDIA ART FAIR
2013 National Level Art Camp at Studio of Prof Mahendra Pandya , Baroda 2013

INDIA ART FAIR 2012

India Art Festival , Mumbai

2011

VIP 2.0 Art Fair ,
INDIA ART FAIR , New Delhi INDIA ART FESTIVAL , MUMBAI

2010

2006 Annual Juried Open Competition, Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, New York
2006 Annual Juried Open Competition, MUSE Gallery, Foundation for the Visual Arts,

Philadelphia, USA
2006 9th Annual All Media Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington D C, USA
2006 20th Annual Soho - Chelsa International Art Competition, New York
2004 Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy, Ahmedabad

Art Takes London International Art Fair

Bibliography

2003

‘Painting with passion’ THE TIMES OF INDIA, Ahmedabad, Wednesday , 20th August 2003 by Raheel Dattiwala

A critical essay by Gajendra Shah in Sambhava, Gujarati Daily

2004

2005

Special coverage in Entertainment TV Gujarat , for programme in HALLO-INDIA Special Coverage on Doordarshan(Gujarat)
Coverage in Mumbai Samachar

‘He capture all forms’ by Hiral Dave in The Indian Express, Ahmedabad , SUNDAY , 10TH July 2005

Special coverage in E-TV Gujarati

Writeup in THE TIMES OF INDIA, Ahmedabad, Oct 3, 2005 by Jhumari Nigam .

‘The Square Truth’ by Arunita Rathore in the The INDIAN EXPRESS , Ahmedabad , Tuesday , November 22, 2005

Special coverage in Jansamarthan , Rajkot, Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Coverage in Saurastra Aaj Tak, Rajkot, Wednesday 23, 2005
Coverage in Divya Bhaskar , Ahmedabad, Tuesday, Novembar 22, 2005

Coverage by Viren Vyas in Asian News International, Tuseday , November 22, 2005 A critical essay by Gajendra Shah in Gujarat Samachar
‘ Brush and Batton’ in THE TIMES OF INDIA , Ahmedabad , 28th Nov 2005

‘ Art Space’ by Uday Mahurkar in INDIA TODAY ,December 2005 2006

Special coverage by alpha TV in Oct 2004 Writeup in Aaj Kal, Sandesh , Gujarati daily

‘ Abstract paintings of Ajay Choudhary ‘ by Bansi Dalal in Gujarati monthly KUMAR in Feb. ISSUE ‘ He is a subject of a Short Film’ by Hiral Dave in INDIAN EXPRESS , 6TH Sept 2006
‘He is subject of a short film’ in Sanjh Samchar , Rajkot , India , 7th Sept , 2006
Coverage in ‘Phulchab’ published from Rajkot

‘ Brush Magic’ in INDIA TODAY, Dec Issue 2006 2007

Coverage in Divya Bhaskar , Baroda
Coverage in INDIAN EXPREES , Feb 2007
‘ Colors on Camera’ in INDIAN EXPRESS, Ahmedabad

‘his films will be shown in all schools in India’ in Divya Bhaskar , Ahmedabad 2008

‘ The Force be with you’ by Gorgina Maddox , INDIAN EXPRESS , Mumbai Writeup in DNA , Mumbai edition

‘ He paints his canvas in various hues’ INDIAN EXPRESS ,Ahmedabad Special coverage in E-TV Gujarati new Channer
Special Profile coverage in ‘ GUJARAT Vaibhava’ by Sagheer Mahdi

2009
Writeup in Gujarat Samachar , LONDON EDITION

‘City Painter paint to pay homage to Mumbai terror victim , INDIAN EXPRESS , Ahmedabad 2010

‘ Painting his way to glory’ in Whispersinthecorridor Mag , INDIA “ his painting inspires documentary ‘ in DNA , Ahmedabad

‘ He is in a double role’ in DNA , Ahmedabad
‘Creative Space’ in Bureaucracy Today by Parimal Peeyush, 01 May, 2010

2011

‘ This Painter is a man to be Met’ by Kshitij Nayak in Mumbai Samachar, Gujarati Daily

‘He perfected in painting ‘ in Gujarati daily

‘ Dreams on canvas’ THE TIMES OF INDIA , Ahmedabad
‘City artist Thrils art afficiando’ THE TIMES OF INDIA , Ahmedabad

‘Colours are a distraction for me’ DNA , Ahmedabad

“Abstract Painting by Ajay Choudhary ‘ in Gujarat Samachar , a Gujarati daily ‘ The Royal taste of Abstract Painting’ in Divya Bhaskar , a Gujarati Daily

‘Abstract Paintings of Ajay Choudhary ‘ by Sagheer Mahdi in Gujarat Vaibhava , A Hindi daily , Ahmedabad

‘ Painting through Khakhi Sleev’ , New Global Indian (NGI0 Mag , INDIA
‘ He is Taking part in UK painting contest’ in THE TIMES OF INDIA , Ahmedabad

‘ Painter Ajay Choudhary taking part in UK painting contest ‘ in Art News N Views , New Delhi ‘ Indian Artist Ajay Choudhary to be invited at LONDON Art Fair , in DPR Daily PRESS , ITALY
‘ Playing with abstracts in artist vision’ in DNA , Ahmedabad

Special coverage in E-TV Gujarati new Channer
Sepecial coverage by Assiciated France Press (AFP) , Europe
‘He paints his canvas in various hues’ in Bauracracy Live Mag and Website ‘Painting by Ajay Choudhary to be on display in Ahmedabad’ PTI, Aug 24 , 2011

Coverage in Desh Gujarat

‘Its challenging to paint a abstract work- Ajay Choudhary’ by Sagheer Mahdi in Gujarat Vaibhava , Ahmedabad , Aug 10, 2011

2012

‘ Larger Plat form to showcase talent , by Kinjal Desai , DNA , Ahmedabad
‘Painter Ajay Choudhary making waves ‘ in Whispersinthecorridor Magzine , INDIA ‘ His Painting are shown in Commercial film’ in Gujarat Samachar

“ Painting in the Bollywood’ DNA AFTER Hrs , AHMEDABAD
‘ Artworks of Ajay Choudhary ‘ by Sagheer Mahdi in Gujarat Vaibhava , A Hindi daily , Ahmedabad ' Art from the Matter' by Bharat Pathak in The Times of India , Baroda Edition , Baroda
'Artwork of Ajay Choudhary ' by Chirantana Bhatt in City Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar , Baroda

' A passionate streak' by Ankita Lahiri , in DNA After Hrs , Ahmedabad edition , dated 10th July , 2012.

A profile story in Gujarati Weekly CHITRLEKHA Mag , Dewali Edition , 10th Nov 2012
'He Paints Abstract Paintings' in DNA Ahmedabad Edition , 8th Nov 2012
' I never tile my artworks- Ajay Choudhary' in Ahmedabad City Bhaskar , 8th Nov2012
' His Artworks are in Mumbai Festival' by Jay Mishra in Baroda City Bhaskar , 1st Dec 2012.

2013

' Bridging the Gap between brush and batton' in DNA After Hrs , Hina Nainani , 2nd Jan , Ahmedabad Edition

Special coverage in Baroda City Bhaskar , 4th Jan 2014 , Diva Bhaskar , Gujarati Daily Special Coverage in Sandesh News Paper , Gujarati Daily , 4th Jan 2013

Special Coverage in Gujarat Samachar , Gujarati Daily , 6th Jan 2013, Baroda Edition Special coverage in Baroda Times , The Times of India , Baroda Edition, 11th Jan 2013 Interview in E Tv Gujarati on 4th Jan 2013
Interview in TV 9 Gujarati on 4th Jan 2013

Interview in a tv channel on 4th Jan 2013

Coverage in GS Tv Gujarati on 10th Jan 2013

Coverage in Gujarat Vaibhava , Ahmedabad City edition , 4th Jan 2013

Coverage in Gujarat Vaibhava , Gujarat State editon , 5th Jan 2013

Coverage in Gujarat Vaibhava , 11 Jan 2013

' Ajay Choudhary to exibit his art installation at INDIA ART FAIR' in The Times of India on 11 jan 2013 , by Parth Sastri

ARTINFO India's List of Must See Art Projects at INDIA ART FAIR | Artinfo , in.blouinartinfo.com Ajay Choudhary at India Art Fair , 2nd Feb , DNA After Hrs , Ahmedabad EDITION by Hina Nainani

2014 ART in Bollywood Movie , DNA AfterHrs , Ahmedabad Coverage in Divya Bhasker about group show ‘SENSES’ Coverage in DNA AfterHrs , about group show ‘SENSES’ Coverage in Gujarat Samachar about ‘ SENSES’ Coverage in Ahmedavad Mirror about ‘SENSES’

Catalogue Essays

2012 2009 2008 2007

2006 2005

Catalouge essay by Prof Deepak Kannal , Baroda
Erik Bluhm , CA , USA , Registrar at Peter Norton Family Collection , NEWYORK

Erik Bluhm , CA , USA, Registrar at Peter Norton Family Collection , NEWYORK
Cataloge Essay by Erik Bluhm , CA, USA , Registrar at Peter Norton Family Collection , NEWYORK Catalouge essay by Leela Mayor , Baroda , INDIA
catalouge essay by Esther David , Ahmedabad , INDIA
Catalouge essay by Sandhya Bordewekar , critique at ART INDIA

Catalouge essay by Bansi Dalal , Ahedabad , INDIA Catalouge essay ‘ Circling the Square’ by Anupa Mehta

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