Artist profile

Early in her career Santosh was awarded a fellowship in Printmaking by the Government of India that took her to Netherlands for two years. She held solo exhibitions in Paris and Amsterdam and had the pleasure of exhibiting her prints in select group shows in New York, Australia, UK and India. She was established and recognized as an artist with exceptional talent by the Cultural Department of Netherlands, Holland.

She has received many significant awards over the years - from the Indian Academy of Fine Arts (Hyderabad), College of Arts (New Delhi), the Andhra Pradesh Council of Artists (Hyderabad) and the prestigious Kala Shri Award from AIFACS in 1999. Through the years while she continued experimenting with mediums such as collages, paintings and printmaking, she’d shifted her focus to art education due to personal reasons. Her prominent roles being Head Of Department, Arts, at DPS, Vasant Kunj, visiting lecturer at College of Art, Delhi, CBSE and NCERT Art Education Consultant on syllabus and an international judge chosen by Nokia Bangkok.

After her retirement in 2012, Santosh also found new life and energy and has been keenly exploring new mediums like photography and Digital editing. Her success in these new fields was acclaimed when she received awards from AIIFACS in 2013 - for her photography work and in 2014 - for her Digital Landscapes. She was recently honoured with the B.C Sanyal award for lifetime dedication to Art & Education by Delhi Collage of Art, 2017.

 Her experiments in digital collages led to her solo art show titled ‘Amor Fati’ in Sept 2014, at Gallery Pioneer, New Delhi. Besides group shows, in 2016, she showed her latest body of work at the India Art Festival, Mumbai. The year culminated with her solo show ‘Time frame/s – Digital Landscapes by Santosh Jain’, at the Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi. Since then, consistently participating in various prominent fundraisers and group shows in Europe, UK, Delhi, Jaipur and Mumbai.

 Santosh continues to passionately create works in acrylic on canvas, charcoals on paper, mixed media and digital collages in her studio in Vasant Kunj. She travels often and at home volunteers her time at the NGO Nai Disha, as Art Therapy teacher and the Skill Development Programme Head.