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Sheikh, Gulam (Mohammed)
(b Surendranagar, Gujerat, 16 Feb 1937). Indian painter and teacher. While a teenager he produced and distributed his own illustrated broadsheet, prefiguring his later career as activist and reformer as well as artist. From 1955 to 1961 he studied under K. G. Subramanyan at the art college in Baroda, Madhya Pradesh. His first one-man show was held in Bombay in 1960, and in 1962 he was awarded the national painting prize. In 1963 he participated in the foundation of Group 1890 in Bombay. The group’s desire to establish an authentic Indian idiom, aware of contemporary international movements while not dominated by them, was central to Sheikh’s work and much subsequent Indian painting. From 1969 to 1973 he edited Vrscika (Skt: ‘Scorpion’), a highly influential magazine notable for its campaign for reform of the National Academy.
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