Neeraj Goswami

Santanu Ganguly

The art of Neeraj Goswami reflects the state of the art in India as it grew over the last fifty years. Born in Patna, in 1964, he grew up in Delhi since the age of eight, and was groomed to be an artist since then even though his family had little means to support such an ambition. He was honoured with a solo show in his school days in Delhi, and won considerable attention from veterans like Saradindu Sen Roy and Gulam Rasool Santosh, before entering Art College in Delhi. His next solo took place while still in art college, and it was veteran artists from Delhi Silpi Chakra, K. S. Kulkarni, Anupam Sud and others, who came forward to organize it with a view to recognize his prolific talent. There was no going back for him since then. Between 1990 to 2000 he had had ten solos held almost annually in Delhi, and predictably enough, catapulted him in the prime frontier of the mainstream Indian Art of the day.