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He began painting seriously in the 70’s when he moved to Bombay. He was educated in Kerala and in Santiniketan.

Patwardhan uses scale to maintain an emotional distance from his subject. He graduated in medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.  He moved to Mumbai in 1973 and worked as a Radiologist in Thane from 1975 to 2005.

The exhibition encompasses select works from almost five decades of Patwardhan's practice including archival material from his curatorial project 'Expanding Horizons', some rare bronzes,  and videos of  his sketch book pages.​

Sudhir Patwardhan is a painter whose work has been exhibited regularly in India and abroad in the past forty years.

He also curated a show at Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai and Sudarshan Art Gallery, Pune. Patwardhan has held more than fifteen solo exhibitions, including at Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi (2017); Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2017); Gallerie 88, Kolkata (2016); Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai (2012); and Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2011), to name a few.

With Nancy Adajania, Hoskote is co-author of The Dialogues Series (Popular/ foundation b&g, 2010).  He has curated 22 exhibitions, including a mid-career survey of Atul Dodiya (Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 2001) and a retrospective of Jehangir Sabavala (National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay and New Delhi, 2005-2006).

His first one person show was held by Ebrahim Alkazi’s Art Heritage Gallery in New Delhi in 1979. The human figure remains the center of his painterly universe. He is a self taught artist and a practicing radiologist. This is tranaslated into Marathi as ‘Rekhachitravichar’, published in 2012.

Patwardhan’s canvases are densely populated reflecting the hub of city life often with emphasis on the ordinary, working man.

His second curatorial project, in 2011, was an exhibition of the drawings of ten artists, shown in The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai and Sudarshan Art Gallery, Pune.

Patwardhan’s works are in the permanent collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai; Roopankar Museum, Bhopal; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, Jehangir Nicholson Collection, Mumbai; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA and other prominent private and public collections.

He has curated several important exhibitions and written extensively on Modern Indian Art. His publications include The Santiniketan Murals, 1995; Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism, 1997; K.G. Subramanyan: A Retrospective, 2003; A. Ramachandran: A Retrospective, 2004; K.S. Radhakrisnan, 2004; and My Pictures: A Collection of Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore, 2005.

All the exhibits in the exhibition have been included in the catalogue. 

A short note on the exhibition : 

Roopankar Museum has in its collection some important paintings by Patwardhan​ from the late nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties. Th​ese will ​form a significant part of the exhibition.

He has recently edited Rabindra Chitravali, a four-volume compilation of Rabindranath’s paintings and he is the curator of the exhibition of Tagore’s paintings that is travelling to eight major museums of the world to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.

Ranjit Hoskote is a cultural theorist, curator and poet.

Patwardhan has also been a curator who has focused on introducing new audiences to contemporary art. 

Some recent one-person exhibition include 'Spectres' at Mumbai and Vadehra Art Gallery, 2017, Delhi;  ‘Route Maps’ in 2012 at The Guild, Mumbai; 'Family Fiction' in 2011, and 'Citing the City' in 2008 at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai.

A monograph in Marathi, written by Padmakar Kulkarni was published in 2005. Anjali Monteiro and K.P.Jaysankar have made a film on the artist, along with the work of the poet Narayan Surve, titled ‘Saacha’, in 2001.

In 2008- 2009 Patwardhan curated an exhibition of Indian Contemporary Art ‘Vistarnari Kshitije’ / ‘Expanding Horizons’ which travelled to eight cities in Maharashtra.

Siva Kumar is presently Professor of Art History at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. Most recently, the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, and the Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, published Walking Through Soul City, with texts by Nancy Adajania, R. Siva Kumar, Timothy Hyman and Madhav Imartey.

Patwardhan’s paintings are included in many prominent public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai; Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Jehangir Nicholson Collection, Mumbai; Punjab University Museum, Chandigarh; Roopankar Museum, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal; Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kochi; and the Peabody Essex Museum, USA.

The artist lives and works in Thane, near Mumbai, India.