Artist: Putli Ganju
Father’s name: Bardan Ganju
Born: 5^th February, 1974
Tribe: Ganju
Village: Saheda
Address: “Sanskriti”, Dipugarha, P.O. Hazaribagh - 825301 Jharkhand, India Tel: 0091-6546-263278

Putli Ganju was born in the remote jungle village of Saheda just above the famous rockart cave paintings of Isco. Taught by her mother Bigni, Putli paints in the Ganju style and has since childhood created art works on the mud walls of her village home. She is an internationally acclaimed artist who has exhibited and worked widely in Australia and Germany. Since 1995 she has been a resident of the Tribal Women Artists’ Cooperative founded by Bulu Imam at Sanskriti Centre in Hazaribagh. She paints wild elephants, tigers, deer, peacocks, pairs of snakes and hunting scenes. Her Sohrai murals “Hunting Scene” (6’x12 feet) is placed in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and “Animals” (6’x12 feet) in the Australian Museum, Sydney.

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.
• In September 2003 she participated in a working exhibition of Khovar and Sohrai paintings sponsored by the Heinrich Boll Foundation as a part of the Asia Pacific Weeks, Berlin.
• In September 2003 she again participated in a working exhibition of Khovar and Sohrai paintings sponsored by the Volkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg and Adivasi Koordination Germany, Kassel, held at the Volkerkund Museum, Heidelberg.

Exhibitions:

• Hogarth Gallery, Sydney 1995-98

• Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney 1996-97

• Fremantel Arts Centre, 1996

• Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 1998

• Nexus Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia, 1998

• Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, 1996

• 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

• Cymroza Gallery, Bombay, March 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
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Casula Arts Centre, Sydney
• S.P.Godrej Collection, Bombay

Putli Ganju

Hunting Scene, Mural (6x12 feet)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Collection