Gieve Patel Indian, b. 1940
Biography
Born in Mumbai in 1940, Gieve Patel is a renowned playwright, poet, artist and a practicing physician. He completed his medical degree from Grant Medical College, Mumbai, and embarked on his writing career with the publication of Poems, launched by Nissim Ezekiel in 1966. That same year Patel also held his first exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
Some of his major exhibitions include Footboard Rider, a solo exhibition at the Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai (2017); No Parsi is an Island, a group exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, (2016); Gateaway Bombay, a group show curated by Susan S. Bean with Beth Citron at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (2007); The Startling View from the Studio – Recent Paintings by Gieve Patel and Sudhir Patwardhan, Bose Pacia, New York (2006); and a solo show of paintings at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2004), among others.
He was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1984 and the Rockefeller Fellowship in 1992, and has been the C.R. Parekh writer-in-residence, Norman Foundation Grant, at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.
The artist passed away in Mumbai in 2023.
Works
Exhibitions
Art Fairs
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INDIA ART FAIR 2023
NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla, New Delhi 9 - 12 February 2023With a diverse roster of artists across conditioning, intention, practice and cultural attitudes – including A. Ramachandran, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi, Biraaj Dodiya,...Read more -
Art Dubai OVR 2020
8 - 10 October 2020Read more
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Looking into a well and Remembering Gieve Patel
By Uttaran Das Gupta | The Wire 5 November 2023One of Gieve Patel’s best-known paintings is Looking into a Well: Full Moon (2001). It depicts, in rich grey-blue shades, a village well at midnight,...Read more -
Delhi: Why you need to check out Call Me By Your Name, the star-studded art exhibition at Vadehra Gallery
By Shikha Sethi | GQ India 24 November 2021At the newest exhibition at Vadehra Gallery in Delhi, it’s a star-studded lineup: Atul and Anju Dodiya, Arpita Singh, Gieve Patel, Sudhir Patwardhan, NS Harsha,...Read more -
Looking into the well, staring at the clouds with Gieve Patel
IANS | The Stateman 15 July 2021A painter, playwright and poet who practiced medicine for decades, Mumbai-based artist Gieve Patel smiles that for him all these art forms may not necessarily...Read more -
Pain and Suffering in Gieve Patel's Art
BY SUCHISMITA UKIL | Reader's Digest 11 October 2018Based out of Mumbai, this multifaceted artist is a poet, playwright and painter. Having been interested in the body, which is reflected in all his...Read more -
Gieve Patel's Collected Poems offer a rare journey into the writer’s mind and imagination, its development
By Manika Sharma | FirstPost 13 July 2018William Wordsworth wrote in Resolution and Independence that young poets always ‘begin in gladness’. In the introduction to Gieve Patel’s Collected Poems (Paperwall, 2018) poet...Read more -
‘Collected Poems’ by Gieve Patel reviewed by Manohar Shetty
By Manohar Shetty | The Hindu 23 June 2018It’s often been claimed that poets wear ‘armour’, a shield against the scepticism and scorn of those who are bewildered by its contemporary form and...Read more -
Of poetry, paintings and Gieve Patel
By Shanta Gokhale | Mumbai Mirror 24 May 2018On Friday at Kitab Khana, Gieve Patel told us he had found in Wassily Kandinsky’s book Concerning the Spiritual in Art, a phrase that had...Read more -
An ode to Gieve Patel
By Riddhi Doshi | DNA 11 May 2012Artist, poet, playwright and retired doctor Gieve Patel’s show of select works from the 70’s till 2006 is currently on in the city. Gieve says,...Read more -
Book review: Gieve Patel's 'Mirrored, Mirroring'
By Tarun Tejpal | India Today 15 May 1991If 'Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity', then Gieve Patel's latest collection falls short. Keats' injunction finds little reflection in...Read more
