Baldev Raj Panesar

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Born: 1927

Biography:

B. R. Panesar, also known as Baldev Raj Panesar, is an Indian artist born in 1927. He was a statistician who moved to Calcutta to work for the Ministry of Planning, eventually retiring as the deputy director of the Indian Statistical Institute. Panesar is a self-taught artist who began making collages out of discarded computer punch cards he found in his office. He has had ten solo exhibitions and has won several awards. He has attended several painting and graphic art camps during his artistic career. Panesar has had no formal training in art and learned it when he joined the studios of Dilip Dasgupta and Rathin Maitra and the Society of Contemporary Artists. Eminent artists like Paritosh Sen, Jogen Chowdhury, Bikas Bhattacharya, Ganesh Halio, and many others inspired him. Panesar is known for his paintings and collages, and his works have been exhibited in galleries and museums in India and around the world.