Rajiv Puri

Rajiv Puri (b. 1954 Delhi, India) is largely a self-trained artist evolving every day with each pallet knife stroke. He has pursued painting with an endless passion for over 45 years.

His experiences have passionately led him as a painter with an extensive international portfolio exhibitions with galleries in India and Nigeria. His paintings essentially explore the nature in its true form and its abstract vivacity exuberance adding multi-dimensional expression of the consciousness in human awareness with its internal and external motivations as a response to the societal, environmental and personal experiences.
Rajiv is a full-time artist and works in his home-studio in Faridabad, India. He also works on custom abstract paintings and commissions for both private collectors in India and overseas.

Nature’s Wilderness….

The eons attest that wilderness, more than any other kind of landscape, is the real world, today a still living vestige of three and a half billion years of organic evolution, the fundamental fabric upon which all life and all economies human and not are based. …..Wilderness is civilization’s best idea. Howie Wolke, Wilderness Advocate

The theme of his works has been Wilderness, natures’ undisturbed and untrammeled landscape, its stillness, its mysteries and emotions. The collection of his paintings is reminiscences and thoughts of the wilderness he came across in Nigeria, India, the Far East and Canada. His oil paintings are a bouquet of his ‘moments in nature which he has attempted to capture in the infinite diversity of my expressions. The perpetual change, order, strength and fragility, colours and rhythm, melody and exuberance has driven him to capture the glory of the elemental world. In his paintings, he assembles the abstract and the tangible to create a new universe.

Education

Graduated in 1974 from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, India
LL.B. (1978) Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India
Chartered Accountancy (1978) from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Exhibitions

Painting exhibitions held in Nigeria, India and UAE
1995-1998 Held exhibitions for private viewing in India and Nigeria.
1999 – Solo exhibitions at DIDI Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.
2002 – Solo show at the Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi India
2004 – Solo show entitled ‘Unveiled’ curated by Dr. Alka Pande at the Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi, India
2004 – Solo show ‘Seasons’, an exhibition of floral paintings, landscapes and seascape held at the Art Folio Gallery, Chandigarh, India.
2004 – Solo exhibition entitled ‘Midsummer Dreams’ at APPARAO Gallery, Chennai, India.
2005 – Solo show at Terra Kulture Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria entitled ‘Rhapsody in hues – A celebration of landscape’.
2005 – ‘Vasundhra – A celebration of landscape” a solo show curated by Dr. Alka Pande at the Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, New Delhi, India.
2007 – ‘Rhapsody Unveiled’ at Terra Kulture Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria.
2007 – ‘Wilderness” a solo show curated by Dr. Alka Pande at the Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, New Delhi, India.
2007 – Participated in two group shows organized by Barclays Bank in Delhi and Mumbai, India
2008 – Participated in a group show presented and organized by HSBC India in New Delhi, India
2008 – ‘Unveiled Horizon’, a solo show in May 2008 at the EPICENTRE, Gurgaon, India
2008 – ‘Woods” a solo show, held at Polka, the Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2011 – ‘Woods beckon me … a solo show at the Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, New Delhi, India
2012 – ‘Live Green’, a solo show at the Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, New Delhi, India
2014 – ‘Seasons’, a solo show at the Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi, India
2020 – Participated in WORLD ART DUBAI Art Show held in October 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates