Gulammohammed Sheikh

Born in 1937 in Saurashtra in Gujarat, Gulammohammed Sheikh did his masters degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the MS University in Baroda in 1961. He was awarded the Commonwealth scholarship and went to study at the Royal College of Arts, London from 1963-69. Subsequently, he taught art history and painting at MSU, Baroda for about thirty years. In 1987, he was a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US, and in 2000, writer/artist-in-residence at the South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Sheikh is also a poet, art critic and historian.
The autobiographical reference has been an important part of his practice. Musings on place, on the cultural environment of the individual are of importance, to him; the physical and the transcendental meet in his work. His work has been exhibited widely in India and abroad.
Sheikh lives and works in Baroda.