Born in Amritsar in 1935, Paramjit Singh attended the School of Arts, Delhi Polytechnic from 1953 to 1958. He was the founder member of 'The Unknown', a group of young painters and sculptors in Delhi (1960-1963). Singh was honoured Professor Emeritus by Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi in 2005. Paramjit Singh has had several solo shows at galleries in Europe including Art Gallery Achenbach Lohrl in Germany (1973), Gallery Babylon in Brussels (1973), Gallery Alana in Norway (1981), and Air Gallery in London (2001). He has been included in over thirty group shows, a selection of which are Freedom - Sixty Years after Indian Independence, Centre International Modern Art, Calcutta (2008), Summer Show, Centre International Modern Art, Calcutta (2006), and Drishti/vision - Indian Contemporary Artists, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur (2002). Paramjit Singh lives and works in New Delhi.

Born in 1935, in Amritsar, Punjab, Paramjit Singh grew up in pastoral pleasantry, which is reflected in his work as an artist. Moving to New Delhi, the artist studied at the Delhi Polytechnic, completing a diploma in Fine Arts there in 1958. Almost a decade later, he studied Printmaking at the Atelier Nord in Norway.

Singh’s brush charts a course on the canvas that gives the viewer panoramic visions of mystic landscapes. The bush, coated with thick pigment, does not rest before it has filled the entire surface; before the paint has ensured that all the natural forms in the frame have been given a colourful, tactile presence. The dappled areas of the sky and water too are rendered with a tactile feel. The lines etching out the grass, the leaves, the peduncle, seem to be possessed by a mysterious, lyrical musicality. The artist’s paintings create a continuum or series, evading the risk of self-duplication.

Working both in the realist and the representational style, Singh’s canvases are gentle explorations of the possibilities that lie beyond the urban world that surrounds us; beyond the noises and sounds and streets packed with vehicles. Singh’s art is significant in its creation of a space for itself, and of an aesthetic haven for its viewers.

Paramjit Singh had his first solo show at the Triveni Gallery, New Delhi, in 1967, and has had numerous solo exhibitions since. Singh’s most recent shows include 'Shall Return Again...' at the Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, in 2009; ‘Green Thought’ at Bodhi Art, Singapore, in 2008; and shows at Grosvenor Vadehra, London, and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2007. Singh’s work has also been a part of many group shows, some of which include 'Progressive to Altermodern' at Grosvenor Gallery, London, in 2009; 'Modern and Contemporary Indian Art' at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2008; and ‘Inventing/ Inverting Traditions: Indian Art II/III’ at Grosvenor Vadehra, London, in 2006-07.

The artist lives and works in New Delhi.

Born 1935 in Amritsar, Paramjit Singh had his art education in the School of Arts, Delhi Polytechnic (1953-58). He was the founder member of 'The Unknown', a group of young painters and sculptors based in Delhi.

Paramjit Singh's landscapes, with their loaded silence evocative of the other worldly, became over the years, a distinct mystical utterance in pictorial terms. The esoteric in his landscapes was perhaps young Paramjit response to the mystery in tensions between the deep pictorial space and the sharp shadows of inanimate objects in the picture metafisica, a short-lived school in modem Italian art, and to the later Surrealist paintings. All these were transformed over about two decades into a personal statement in Paramjit's paintings.

From around the late 1980s, Paramjit's landscapes and his techniques changed radically. The Italian picture metafisica with their sharp shadows and melting tones receded into oblivion, and there emerged lush Indian landscapes with a mystical vision of a transcendental presence.
His paintings came under the hammer at seven important art auctions in India and at Christie's in London, and at the auction by Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi-London, in 1994. In 1988, Paramjit Singh was the Commissioner for the Indian participants in the Art Festival of Pakistan, Lahore. He painted a 450 sq. ft. area for an environmental room in Bombay in 1990-93. Paramjit Singh lives and works in New Delhi.