Name: Chamni Ganju
Father’s name: Sethu Ganju
Born: 10^th February 1974
Tribe: Ganju
Village: Saheda
Address: “Sanskriti”, Dipugarha, P.O. Hazaribagh - 825301 Jharkhand, India Tel: 0091-6546-263278

Chamni Ganju, from childhood lived and painted in her idyllic jungle home on the scarps of the Hazaribagh plateau in the jungles overlooking the North Karanpura valley. A brilliant colourist, who learnt from her mother Enjre, the art of her tribe, Chamni’s work reflects animals and birds of her homelands and the aquatic life of the nearby Damodar river. Since 1995, being a widow, she chose to move to the Sanskriti Centre art studio and residence in Hazaribagh with her two sons, and daughter, Malti, to whom she is teaching the traditions of her Ganju tribal painting. During her one month residency sponsored by the Australian Museum in March 2000 in Sydney her murals of 6x12 feet size were acquired for the collection of the Museum.

Experience:

• In March 2000 she participated in a one month residency by four tribal women artists to paint fourteen murals at the Djamu Gallery of the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia.

Exhibitions:

• Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney 1996-97

• Fremantel Arts Centre, Perth, 1996

• Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, 1996

• Bathurst Regional Art Galley, NSW, 1998

• Gallery Chemould, Bombay, 1997-99

• India International Centre, New Delhi 1998

• National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 2000

• Djamu Gallery, Sydney 2000

• Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, May-June 2000

• Bellevue Gallery, Berlin, 2001

• Therese Dion Gallery, Montrial, 2001

• Cymroza Gallery, Bombay, 2002

• Maxmuller Bhawan, New Delhi, July 2002

• Rebecca Hossack Gallery London, 2002

• Eppelheim Gallery, Germany, March-April 2002

• Kassel Art Gallery, Germany, July-August, 2002

• Stuttgart Art Gallery, Germany, October 2002

• Boras Kunstmuseum, Boras, Sweden, September, 2003

• Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, September, 2003

• Volkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg, September, 2003

• Ludwigsberg, Feb.-March 2004

• State Museum of Ethnography (Volkerkunde), Dresden, May-June 2004

 Major Collections:

• Australian Museum, Sydney

• Casula Arts Centre, Sydney

• S.P.Godrej Collection, Bombay