Shakti Maira

About Shakti Maira

  Shakti Maira is an artist and sculptor. He has had twenty-four one-person shows in India, the US and in Europe. His work can be found at the National Gallery of Modern Art, India, in collections belonging to leading corporate houses and in private collections around the world.

  Shakti also writes on art, aesthetics, culture and travel for newspapers and magazines in India and abroad, and is a columnist for First City and Design Today magazines. He is interested in children’s education and development through art and has conducted numerous workshops in schools in the US and India.

  In 2005 he helped organize the ‘Learning through the arts in Asia’ symposium in New Delhi, and was subsequently invited by UNESCO to prepare the Asian vision statement for ‘Arts in Education: Learning Through the Arts’. He lives in New Delhi.