SWARNJIT SAVI
Sahitya Academy Award Winner 2023
Chairman, Punjab Arts Council, Chandigarh
*Born : Oct. 20, 1958, Jagraon, Ludhiana ( Punjab) .
*M.A. English 1981, M.A. Fine Arts (1985)
*Began painting as a hobby during school days.
One-Man Shows:
*Held 35 “Poster Poems” shows based on Punjabi Poetry
from Baba Sheikh Farid to contemporary poets from 1987 to 1990 throughout Punjab
Yamuna Nagar & Ambala. These exhibitions displayed 70 paintings done with
poster colours on Paper with an extract of poems alongside.
*Three one-man shows titled 'Desire' a
series of 35 oil paintings:
*20-23 Feb 1997 at Thakar Art Gallery, Amritsar. * 19-23 March 1997
at Govt. Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh * Dec. 12, 1998, to Jan. 11, 1999, at
Patiala Art World, Patiala.
*' The Quest' at IndusInd Gallery Chandigarh
from
Feb. 17 to March
3, 2000.
*'Leela' at The Mall, Ludhiana from
June 2003.
*' The Speaking Tree' an exhibition
of photographs from
November 16-21,2005 at the Academy of Arts
and Literature
Siri Fort
institutional area, New Delhi
*'Leela' at Press Club of India 2007
*‘The Dancing Lines’ at gallery Artmosphere, Ludhiana 2008
*‘The Dancing Lines’ at Govt. Museum and Art
Gallery, Chandigarh 2008
* ‘NEE’ oil paintings at Museum and Art Gallery, Punjabi University, Patiala 28 Feb. to 27 march, 2010
* ‘ NEE DHARTIYE…’ Jan.7 –Feb -5, 2011 at Gallery
Artmosphere, Ludhiana
* ‘IMPRESSIONS’ July 9-10,2011 at Ambedkar Hall, Southall, England organized by Adara Shabd.
‘EVOLUTION-II’ 12-12-2012 at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana -an
installation about the evolution of Tools and Language in stainless steel at
Flag Chowk, PAU (approximate size 7 ft. width x
8 ft. length x 17 ft. height)
‘Selected Works’ June 2014 Painting and Photographs show at Southall UK
‘Udasian’ Natural Pigments Oil on canvas- Travels of Guru Nanak June 2015 Brampton, Toronto, During World Punjabi
Conference 2015 organised by PUBLA
‘Udasian Babe Dian’ Natural Pigments Oil on canvas- Travels of Guru Nanak July 2016
University of California Fresno, USA, During World Punjabi Conference
‘Udasian’ Natural Pigments Oil on canvas- Travels of Guru Nanak June 2015 Brampton, Toronto, During World Punjabi
Conference 2017 organised by PUBLA
‘Udasian’ Natural Pigments Oil on Canvas- Travels of Guru Nanak
Jan 9-31, 2018, at
Museum and Art Gallery Punjabi University, Patiala
'Ekomkar & Rabab' Art and Installation in Stainless Steel, Gun Metal on RCC wall 31
ft hign at Indian Side Zero point of Dera Baba Nanak- Kartarpur Sahib Corridor
on the 550th Birthday Celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev ji. Opened to the Public from
9-11-2019.
Participation:
*Punjab Lalit Kala Academy 1990, * Art
India, Ludhiana, 1991-1992.
*Art Heritage, Jalandhar, 1997, 1998
Publications :
Books of Poetry
Dayrian Di Qabr Chon, 1985.
* Awaggya,
1987.1998,2013
* Dard Piadey Hon Da, 1990, 1998,2013.
*Dehi Naad, 1994. 2013.
* Kala
Hashia Te Sooha Gulab, 1998.
*Kameshwari 1999. 2013.
*Desire (English) 1999. 2013
*Aashram, 2005, 2013.
* MAA 2008, 2013.
*Tarqheen Yudh ( Hindi)- 2012
*Kameshwari (English) -2012
* TE
MAIN AYA BASS – Poetry 2013
* OORI
– Poetry 2018
* Khushian Da Password-poems for Cuyii 2021
* Man Di Chip (2021) Won Sahitya Academy Award 2023
* Udasi Da Libas (2022)
Translations:
*Sada Ronda Ey dil Mahia 2009
(Translation of poems by Uzbek Poetess Uktamoy Kholdrova
into Punjabi)
* Jalgeet (Translation of Telgu long poem by N. Gopi into Punjabi)
*Translated Kashmiri, Tamil,
Telugu, Bengali, Manipuri, and Kannada
Poetry into Punjabi for Sahitya Academy Delhi
2009- 10- 11
* Presented poetry in Poetry Festivals at Delhi, Bengaluru, Shimla, Hyderabad, Srinagar, Patiala, and Ludhiana organized by Sahitya Academy, New Delhi.
and SAARC Festival of Literature at Delhi-2010, 2012
Awards :
*Gurmukh Singh Musafir Award
Department of Languages Punjab Govt. in 1990 and 1994
*Mohan Singh Mahir Award
From GND University, Amritsar, 1991
*Sant Ram Udasi Puraskar 1990
*Safdar Hashmi Award 2009
*Sahit Academy Ludhiana Award
from Sahit Academy, Ludhiana 2009
Worked :
* Editor-Literature and Arts, Quami Rajniti
1985-1987,
*Editor-Literature and Arts The Mehram 1987
to 1990.
Edited Special issues on Punjabi
Literature:
Umeed- (
Hindi Literary Monthly from Behraiech UP)
Punjabi Sahit Special Issue-2001 (Edited and Translated
into Hindi)
Mehram (Monthly from Nabha) – Parvasi Punjabi Sahit Special Issue 2002
Aesthetics Publications, Ludhiana
Published more than 150 Books on Poetry,
Fiction, and Criticism in Punjabi
Hindi, Urdu, and English of renowned and
Young writers in Aesthetics Publications
since 1997.
Into Publishing & Printing business in
Ludhiana in the establishment:
ARTCAVE PRINTERS
1978/2, Maharaj Nagar, Behind Circuit
House, Ludhiana
Since 1990
artCave, Ludhiana.
Permanent Collection on display:
* Punjabi
University, Patiala at Museum and Art gallery,( Punjab).
* Punjabi
Academy, Delhi
* Vidya Infosys,
Ludhiana.
* Gwendolyn C.
Harrison Indiana, USA
* Dorothy Mc
Mohan Indiana, USA
* Devinder
Chandan, U.K.
* Uktamoy
Kholdrova, Uzbekistan
* Indian Embassy
in Afghanistan
* Dr. S S Noor,
Delhi
* Amarjit Grewal, Jatinder Preet, and Amrita Chaudhry Ludhiana
*Lucille Tomarong, Toledo
City, Philippines
*Punjab Agricultural University, (
Golden Jubilee Monument in Stainless steel) Ludhiana.
* Guru Granth Bhawan, Punjabi
University Patiala Museum, and Guru Granth
Bhawan.
and many more with individual collections
Into Publishing & Printing business
in the establishment:
ARTCAVE PRINTERS
Studio Artcave
1978/2, Maharaj Nagar, Behind Circuit
House, Ludhiana
Since 1990
artCave, Ludhiana.
Website:
Email:
swarnjitsavi@gmail.com
Blogs:
www.paintingsbysavi.blogspot.com
Phones :
Mo.: 09876668999
Email:
swarnjit.savi@yahoo.com
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