Professional Model on Chair (1984) Drawing by Surjit Akre

Name: Surjit Akre
Designation: Professional Artist
Born: 22nd March 1954 Taran Tarn, Punjab, India
Nationality: Indian
Education and Specialization :
1975: Diploma in Commercial Art, Women’s Polytechnic, New Delhi.
1978: 85 Post Graduate Degree in Easel Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts from Russia,
Academy of Arts, Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture, Decorated with
the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in St. Petersburg.
1986: 1991 Worked as the Head of the Exhibition Department at the Russian Centre of Science and
Culture, New Delhi.
1988: Founder President of Roerich’s Art Club, affiliated to RCSC, New Delhi. Curate more
than 200 Indian-Russian painting exhibitions in India and in Russia.
Surjit Akre ( 22 March 1954) is an eminent Indian painter. She is the
first Indian Artist who has achieved a Post- Graduate Degree in easel painting, from Russia,
(Former Soviet Union) Academy of Fine Arts, Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture &
Architecture, in St. Petersburg. (Former Leningrad). Post-Independence India has witnessed
the emergence of many women painters, who rose to prominence due to their merit and
established themselves nationally and internationally. A well-known name among these artists
is Surjit Akre. She is an accomplished figurative artist.
Surjit Akre traveled throughout her life including Russia, the USA, Canada, Italy, Tashkent, Armenia,
Nepal and India, deriving heavily from their art styles and cultures

ARTIST STATEMENT
Art is my patience. I interpret the life of genre people in my paintings,
their love, anger, struggle for life, dreams, suffering & all happenings
of life.
I also paint autobiographical paintings.
The main medium which I love is oil on canvas because it is durable
& also can try different textures in this medium.
I also love to do pencil, charcoal, sangina, drawings on paper.
I have developed my own style, which took several years of practice
& experience.
When I see my art I feel that life is so beautiful, complicated & deep
because my painting is the mirror of life. I depict life as what I feel,
and what I see & every painting shows a different aspect of life.
When people see my art they feel it profoundly & says it is true.
Since 1986 after my Postgraduation from the prestigious Academy of Arts,
Repin Institute of paintings, Sculpture,& Architecture Saint.Petersburg,
Russia I do paintings on different topics & series like Mother & Child,
War & Peace, Shringar, Desire, Prakriti, No to Global Terrorism, etc.

• Nationality: INDIA
• Date of birth : 1954
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Indian Artists