Anjum Siddiqui is an artist originally from India, but who now works and lives in Toronto, Canada. After finishing her school from The Lawrence School, Sanawar, she went on to study at the College of Art – a leading Art School in New Delhi, India, from where she graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Applied Arts. Although she has been working as a graphic designer and a visualizer, she always had a passion and keen eye for the fine arts and continued to paint in various mediums.
Anjum had the rare opportunity of working and learning from the late M F Husain, who was one of India’s leading contemporary artists and was dubbed the ‘Picasso of India’ by the Time magazine. Husain was Anjum’s mentor and guru since a tender age of 10. From him she learnt the usage of color, form, balance, and other painting techniques. She has the privilege of being his only pupil.
Anjum is a multilayered, gifted artist. She paints with ease in all mediums—acrylic, watercolor, oil sticks, dry pastel, ink, and lead pencil. She has also painted with acid dyes on 100% silk cloth panels. Not only does she bring to her paintings her visualizing experience as a graphic designer, who has done branding and packaging for many years, but also the breadth and reach of a complete artist.
Trained in Indian classical music, Anjum plays the sitar; a rising theatre star on the Toronto scene, she has also recently acted in short films; and a multilingual poet, she has performed her English and Urdu poetry at many recent private events.
In all of this, she is the consummate artist, enamored by the creative process, and deeply engaged in the world around her, ever attuned to both aesthetics and politics, the creative and the worldly. Anjum has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and has had several Group and Solo Shows.
Anjum Siddiqui is an artist originally from India, but who now works and lives in Toronto, Canada. After finishing her school from The Lawrence School, Sanawar, she went on to study at the College of Art – a leading Art School in New Delhi, India, from where she graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Applied Arts. Although she has been working as a graphic designer and a visualizer, she always had a passion and keen eye for the fine arts and continued to paint in various mediums.
Anjum had the rare opportunity of working and learning from the late M F Husain, who was one of India’s leading contemporary artists and was dubbed the ‘Picasso of India’ by the Time magazine. Husain was Anjum’s mentor and guru since a tender age of 10. From him she learnt the usage of color, form, balance, and other painting techniques. She has the privilege of being his only pupil.
Anjum is a multilayered, gifted artist. She paints with ease in all mediums—acrylic, watercolor, oil sticks, dry pastel, ink, and lead pencil. She has also painted with acid dyes on 100% silk cloth panels. Not only does she bring to her paintings her visualizing experience as a graphic designer, who has done branding and packaging for many years, but also the breadth and reach of a complete artist.
Trained in Indian classical music, Anjum plays the sitar; a rising theatre star on the Toronto scene, she has also recently acted in short films; and a multilingual poet, she has performed her English and Urdu poetry at many recent private events.
In all of this, she is the consummate artist, enamored by the creative process, and deeply engaged in the world around her, ever attuned to both aesthetics and politics, the creative and the worldly. Anjum has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and has had several Group and Solo Shows.