BEGINNINGS
He was born in Goa.
1945 Joined the Communist Party.
1948 Founder member, Progressive Artist
Group, Bombay.
1950 Commissioned to paint a series of murals, Indian Students Bureau, London.
1959 His autobiography, Words and Lines was published.
1966 Illustrated, Inner Circle, Macmillan, London.
Since 1970 Lived in New York.
A monograph, Souza by Edwin Mullins was published by Blond, London. Received special attention from Steven Spender, editor of Encounter.
EDUCATION
1937-39 Studied at St. Xavier?s School, Bombay.1940-45 Studied at J.J. School of Art, Bombay.1949-55 Studied at Central School of Art, London.Studied at ?cole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris.
EXHIBITIONS
1948 Exhb., Burlington House Gallery, London.1949 Progressive Art Group Exhb., Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay.1951 Exhb., Indian Embassy, London. 1961 Exhb., Gallery One, London. 1963 Exhb., Taj Gallery, Bombay. 1965 Art Now in India, London.1967 Solo exhb., Guggenheim Foundation, USA. 1968 Exhb., London Arts Gallery, Detroit, USA.1977 Commonwealth Artists of Fame, London. 1982 India: Myth and Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. 1987 Coups de Coeur, Halles de L`Ile, Geneva. 1993 Souza, 1940`s-1990`s, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi. 1999 The Demonic Line, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.2003 Manifestations, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, World Trade Center, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.2004 Manifestations II, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.2005 Manifestations III, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Nehru Center, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.The Naked Line ? Drawings by
COLLECTION
Baroda Museum, Vadodara.Wakefield City Art Gallery, New Delhi. Methodist Church Council, New College, Oxford. National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.Tate Gallery, London. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai. Osian?s ? Archive and Library, India. Nitin Bhayana, New Delhi.Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
AWARDS
1960 Received Govt. Scholarship, on the recommendation of the British Council.
STYLE
Souza`s process of evolving his style and typical approach to distortion is the key to understand his attitude to the human figure, as well as pictorial compositions. He was the first Indian artist to have gained international recognition and his commanding images witness a blend of eroticism and religiosity.
