About Us

Name: Ajay Upasani

BORN : 07.05.1962 (VARANASI)

STUDIO: VARANASI

AT PRESENT: FREE-LANCE

MY QUALIFICATION

1987​

B.F.A. (FACULTY OF VISUAL ARTS)
BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY

1989

M.F.A. (FACULTY OF VISUAL ARTS)
BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY

2001

U.G.C. (NET)

SCHOLARSHIP

1988-1989

MERIT SCHOLARSHIP IN M.F.A.

BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY

AWARD

1981

1st AWARD IN SKETCH COMPTT. FACULTY OF VISUAL ARTS, BHU

1985

AWARD IN ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION, FACULTY OF VISUAL ARTS, B.H.U.

1993

“BEST WORK OF THE YEAR “MAHAKOSHAL KALA PARISHAD RAIPUR (M.P.)

2007

ANNUAL AWARD FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE “GURU-PARAM” BY NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SAMITI.

2011

NATIONAL AWARD FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE BY NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SAMITI.

PARTICIPATION

1986

16 TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION, U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI.

1986

3 RD NATIONAL POSTER COMPTT.MINISTRY OF H.R.D. NEW DELHI.

1988

1986

5 TH NATIONAL POSTER COMPTT. MINISTRY OF H.R.D. NEW DELHI

1990

1 ST ALL INDIA ART EXHIBITION (LORD RAMA LORD KRISHNA) AIFACS & PIC.

1993

NATIONAL ART FAIR , CHENNAI.

1994

U.P. STATE ART EXHIBITION, ORGANISED BY WORKING ARTISTS OF VARANASI.

24 TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI

2 ND U.P. STATE ART EXHIBITION ORGANISED BY WORKING ARTISTS OF VARANASI

1995

20 TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI

1996

39 TH NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART, LALIT KALA AKADEMI.

1997

63 RD ALL INDIA EXHIBITION OF ART, THE INDIAN AKADEMY OF FINE ARTS, AMRITSAR.

NATIONAL ART FAIR, NEW DELHI.

1998

41 ST NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART, LALIT KALA AKADEMI.

1999

65 TH ALL INDIA EXHIBITION OF ART, THE INDIAN AKADEMY OF FINE ARTS, AMRITSAR.

2001

POORVANCHAL REGIONAL ART EXHIBITION, U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI

2004

4 TH REGIONAL ART EXHIBITION U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI AT VARANASI.

STATE LEVEL ART EXHIBITION, U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI.

2 ND ALL INDIA EXHIBITION OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI.

46 th NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART LALIT KALA AKADEMI.

10 TH ALL INDIA ART EXHIBITION U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI,

GROUP SHOW AT MOMENT GALLERY OF MODERN ART, LUCKNOW.

2005

25 TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION, U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI

2010

34 TH CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS,INTER STATE EXCHANGE ART EXHIBITION JAIPUR & MUMBAI.

REGIONAL ART EXHIBITION, U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI & KASHI VIDYAPEETH AT VARANASI

29 TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION, U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI

MONSOON 2010 GROUP SHOW IN KAMALNAYAN BAJAJ ART GALLERY, MUMBAI.

2012

“Aflame “GROUP SHOW AT LALIT KALA AKADEMI., NEW DELHI.

ART ETERN EXHIBITION (AN INTERNATIONAL ARTIST SHOW) ,NEW DELHI.

2015

“SURSARI” AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHY ,ARCHEOLOGY SURVEY OF INDIA

CAMP

2001

ALL INDIA ARTISTS CAMP, U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI, SANSKAR
BHARTI, CULTURE DEPTTAT KUMBHNAGAR, PRAYAG.

2004

“KALA –UTSAV” RASHTRIYA LALIT KALA KENDRA, LUCKNOW.

2013

ALL INDIA ARTIST CAMP, GANGA MAHASABHA, KUMBHNAGAR, PRAYAG.

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST CAMP, JAIPUR ART FESTIVAL

2014

NATIONAL ARTIST CAMP, RAJASTHAN BRIJ BHASHA AKADEMI, JAIPUR.

2015

PAINT FOR GANGA, CAMLIN, MY HOME, VASANTA COLLEGE
RAJGHAT, VARANASI

2020

NATIONAL ARTIST CAMP BY U.P. STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI & JBP
RUHELKHAND UNIVERSITY, BARELIY.

2021

WESTERN ZONE CULTURAL CENTRE(WZCC) UDAIPUR “AN Art Camp”

WORKSHOP

2002

ART TEACHERS WORKSHOP AT JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA,
GONDA

DRAWING & GRAPHIC WORKSHOP BY WORKING ARTISTS OF VARANASI.

2023

3 DAYS INTERNATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP BY IAW

ORGANISER

2005

ART IN EDUCATION, VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOP AT J.N.V. JAUNPUR.

2009

ART IN EDUCATION, VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOP AT J.N.V. JAUNPUR.

2019

“KALA-GANGA”NATIONAL ARTIST CAMP BY GANGA MAHASABHA,KUMBH
PRAYAGRAJ.

SOLO SHOW

1993

AT JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA

AT COMMITTEE FOR ASSISTANCE TO ITALIANS, ASSI, VARANASI.

1998

REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE (U.P. GOVT.) VARANASI.

2002

JUGALBANDI, ABC ART GALLERY, VARANASI

2011

AT QERITICA THE ART GALLERY, ASSI, VARANASI.

2018

REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE (U.P. GOVT.) VARANASI.

INCLUDED

2006

ARTISTS DIRECTORY, 3 RD EDITION ( PAGE NO. 635 ) ,LALIT KALA AKADEMI.

2007

ASIA/PACIFIC WHO’S WHO VOL.VII ( PAGE NO.604 ).

INDO-ASIAN WHO’S WHO VOL III (PAGE NO. 468).

Ajay
Upasani

MY VIEW-MY PAINTINGS

Drawing Oil Painting Mural Acrylic Portrait

“My work is not an imagination of an artist or technique of a brush but to some extent a self shaped figure,the inspiration to create such a composition inspired from within myself”

Banaras

Banaras (Varanasi) have  impressed me so much ,that I could  not  resist myself to do some work  through my paintings  like other painters. The topic of my work “Benaras through creative vision “ not only expresses the architecture  & beauty  of the streets  and the entire  enviornment of Benaras ,and is  also focused  on the realistic approach, somewhere near to abstract vision. It is surly going to capture your attention on  the  series of painting of Benaras  Ghat.

The Blue Series

 It is based on oil medium and can also be called as an intabgible series.Through this series, I have tried to display the interaction between human & nature. The blue colour  create a special  misterious  enviornment. The painting depicts the materialistic  hunger of  human beings, causing the destruction of our mother nature.

Water Colour

The most & highly effective  expression  can be represented through the water colour. This is the best medium to use during the time crisis. In the series of  watercolour, I have touched various  nooks  and  corner of different area of creativity.

Drawing

My Drawing in black through the white sensation discloses it’s plurality of unity In covering the dversities of communcation. To this series, I have tried to accord a composition through Various textures and forms, which are gathered by me through various medium.

Oil Pastel

The texture & depth of color in this medium, approached me to create more & more creation.

Mural

I have used different Subject to create, in this area.The colour used acrylic to enamel paint & other material as per requirement of composition.

Acrylic

The versatile approach of this medium influenced me to create different topic.

Portrait

I like to capture the mood of person through different medtum from pencil to paint.