Ganesh Haloi

Ganesh Haloi was born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh in 1936. He moved to Calcutta in 1950 following the Partition. The trauma of the uprooting left its mark on his work as it did on some other painters of his generation. In 1956, he graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta. The next year he joined the Archaeological Survey of India to make copies of the Ajanta murals. After seven years, Haloi returned to Calcutta to work. From 1963 till his retirement, he taught at the Government College of Art and Craft. Since 1971, he has been a member of the Society of Contemporary Artists. The experience of Ajanta influenced Haloi profoundly and his works showed an innate lyricism and a sense of nostalgia for a lost world pervaded these paintings. 

He is a Member of The Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta Since 1971 and lives and works in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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