1940 – 2015   m sivanesan

Education:  1956 Fine Arts, Madras Government College of Arts & Crafts, Chennai

M. Sivanesan does not use his paintings to make statements. He feels that an attempt to make a statement restricts him in many ways. His paintings are reflections of his personal mood at various points of time. ‘People’ are his favorite subjects. He is appreciative of the beauty that he sees in people. The human face and figure are of special interest to him. He has three studios – in New Delhi, Mumbai and Madras. He has exhibited all over the world and was partial to New York

M. Sivanesan was born in Madras (now Chennai) in South India in 1940. He joined the Madras Government College of Arts and Crafts, Madras in 1956. He won an award at International Inter Church, New York in 1962. He has held several one-man shows in India as well as abroad. These include shows in Bangkok (1976); Los Angeles (1977); Ottawa, Canada (1978) and New York and Washington D.C. (1979). He has also been a participant at group shows like the ones at Tokyo, Japan (1967); New York (1968); Frish Art Gallery, New York (1981) and Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi (1982). He went to light in 2015

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003 Dhoomimal Art Centre, New Delhi

1999, 82 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi

1998 Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York

1996 National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai

1994 Chennai

1981 Frish Art Gallery, New York

1968 New York

1967 Tokyo, Japan

1966 New Delhi