"rooma's
studio"
S-272, Greater Kailash-I,
New Delhi - 110 048
Tel. No. 91-11-26415723
Cell: 98 181 30745
E.Mail: roomamehra@india.com
roomamehra@yahoo.com
Academic
Honours
Awarded Government
of India's Merit Scholarship
Awarded by the
USIS
Topped in the
Mittelstufe-I examination conducted by the
Max Mueller Bhawan
in German Language
Awarded by the
Goethe-Institut, Munich
Awarded at the
Shankar's International Painting Competition at age
13
Scholarships
Govt. Of India's Merit Scholarship
Scholarship for studying Fine Arts at the Art Students
League of New York, U.S.A. 1986
Included in the International WHO'S WHO OF PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN by AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE, North Carolina,
U.S.A. in March 2000
Included in the WHO'S WHO of SOUTH-ASIAN WOMEN WRITERS
compiled by the University of Washington Libraries,
Seattle, U.S.A
Poetry/
Publications
Three Volumes
of Poetry published:
Sunshadow, Reaching
out, and For You
Awarded Certificate of Honour by Skylark Poetry Academy
Awarded by the Goethe-Institut, Munich
Life-Member of THE POETRY SOCIETY, India
"1989 Northern American Open Poetry contest"
by the National Library of Poetry , Maryland - selected
semi- finalist among 12,000 competitors and published
in their anthology
Honoured as "GOLDEN POET" by the Executive
Committee of the Board of Directors of the "WORLD
OF POETRY, California
Included in the GOLDEN TREASURY OF INDO-ANGLIAN POETRY,
and Indo-Anglian Literature's "WHO'S WHO"
published by
SAHITYA AKADEMI
5th volume (poetry/prose) of human- interest articles
(with accompanying photographs of Paintings, Reliefs
and Sculptures) pending publication. Title : "IN
SEARCH OF SILENCE"
Widely published
(Poetry and Creative Writing) and Free-lance Writer
of human- interest articles
for all national dailies including THE HINDUSTAN TIMES,
THE TIMES OF INDIA,
THE INDIAN EXPRESS,
THE HINDU, THE ASIAN AGE,
THE STATESMAN, THE PIONEER,
ECONOMIC TIMES TRAVEL,
THE TRIBUNE
among others.
Fine
Arts
Well - known
Painter and Sculptor
Solo
Shows
First solo show
at AIFACS, New Delhi in 1982 (Paintings)
Same Exhibition
sponsored by the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society(1982)
Third solo show of Paintings and Sculptures at Shridharani
Gallery,
New Delhi in 1985
Fourth solo exhibition
of Paintings, Reliefs and Sculptures at
Shridharani Gallery in 1989
Vadehra Art Gallery, 1989 (their inaugural show)
Educational show
sponsored by the Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi
at
The LSR Premises in September 1989
Exhibition of Water colours sponsored by Gallery 42
in 1992
"IN SEARCH OF PEACE" An Exhibition of Paintings
and Mixed Medias at the
LALIT KALA AKADEMI, NEW DELHI, from NOVEMBER 25TH
to DECEMBER 2ND 2002
rooma's
art/Virtual Websites:
http://www.geocities.com/roomamehra/rooma_s_studio_art_gallery
www.artindia.com
http://www.artindia.net
http://www.waterperryarts.com
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/r/roomamehra
http://www.wheatfields.net
Participations
& Group Shows(India)
GARHI ARTISTS COMMUNITY for Kargil Martyrs at LALIT
KALA
AKADEMI Galleries in July- August 1999.
"THE FEMININE PERCEPTION" - An Exhibition
of Paintings by three
Women Artists sponsored by Gallerie Petite in Oct,
Nov. 1995
Dhoomi Mal Art Centre, May 1996
AIFACS Annual 1996, AIFACS Mini Sculpture Exhibition
1996
Sahitya Kala Parishad Annual Exhibitions 1981, 83,
85, Yuva Mahotsavas Kala Melas ,etc
Sahitya Kala Parishad 1994
Dhoomimal Art Gallery - Ravi Jain Memorial 1992
1ST All India Mini Sculpture Exhibition March 31-
April 8, 1992
. AIFACS Annuals 1987, 1988 (Diamond Jubilee Exhibition),
1990 etc.
All India
Women's Art Exhibition 1987
Dhoomimal Sculpture Festival 1990 to 1994
Artists of Fame and Promise - Living Art"- co
- sponsored by Studio One
and AIFACS in February 1991
Inter-State Exchange of Art (SKP) 1984, 1985
Welcomgroup Art Auction for Drought Relief at the
Maurya Sheraton in
November 1986
International Women's Art Exhibition AIFACS in 1988
National Exhibition 1990 (Lalit Kala Akademi) New
Delhi
Bharat Bhavan Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art
in February 1990
Participation
International Exhibitions and Exhibitions Abroad
Represented at the exhibition of Indian Artists organised
by the Indian
Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1984
Works displayed
in Copenhagen Town Hall, Denmark
Invited to participate
in " A View of the New " a Commonwealth
and U.K.
Contemporaries Art Show by the Royal Overseas League
held in 1990
Private showings and sale of paintings during travel
to Austria Denmark, Austria and Switzerland in 1984
and the U.S.A
Collections (India)
National Gallery
of Modern Art, 1999
Lalit Kala Akademi
Collection, 1989
Individual collections
in India (incl. Secretary, Indian Council of Cultural
Research
(ICCR) during first exhibition in 1982 and the then
Ambassador of Switzerland (in the
same year), the Embassy of Spain, the Embassy of Switzerland,
Studio One collection,
the Indian Ambassador to Denmark etc.
Collections (Abroad)
Collection of ARTE ANTICA, Canada, 2002
Paintings and
Sculptures in individual Collections in Switzerland,
U.S.A.
Denmark, Austria, Spain and Japan
"Waiting to usher in new dawn"
Selected excerpts
from the reviews of the three published volumes of
Poetry
SUNSHADOW, REACHING
OUT, and FOR YOU
- Short, crisp, highly imaginative poetic sketches
from the pen of Rooma Mehra in whose poetry the impact
of sculpture and painting is evident enough.
Delicately sensitive,
sometimes mysteriously stirred to depth, she does
not try to escape the real in the clash and clamour,
rather she comes to grip with the brute facts of life
and transmutes them by the touch of her ontological
fervour. For her knowing is becoming.
Serenely humane,
her poetry has the attraction of green leaves across
the gray ruggedness of infertile waste.
§ A. RUSSEL in POETRY TIME
I, therefore,
find it interesting to discover one who, living apart
from vicious coteries and out of hearing of the foolish
plaudits of petty circles, writes as a bird sings
and yet, in her singing, reveals the wide human soul
of a contemplative poetess. She makes no claims to
being a new voice in Indo-Anglian poetry. She is.
o Mohd. Vazeeruddin,
Associate Editor, THE TRIBUNE in THE TRIBUNE
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The present volume is a collection of verse, which
make fine reading. Rooma Mehra is a fine artist with
words and can delight the reader with her craftsmanship.
· -"A
FINE VOLUME OF VERSES" by S.N. SINHA in THE PIONEER
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must be some thing common between painting, sculpture,
poetry and music, so many painters write poetry, so
many poets can also play some musical instrument or
the other, or sing.
One of them is Rooma Mehra. I have noticed the strong,
visual impact in her poems.
§ KHUSHWANT
SINGH in his MALICE column in THE HINDUSTAN TIMES
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- One charge often brought against modern poetry is
that it has little to express. It does not communicate.
In most instances it becomes so complex that the reader
may not know what it is really about. Rooma's poetry
is different. It speaks, both at the emotional and
intellectual level.
§ 'THE SPIRITUAL POINT OF REST' by NITI PAUL
MEHTA in THE PATRIOT'
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- Indian poetry in English, like poetry in any other
language, has a familiar pattern ranging from imitation
to sincere poetic voice, and if the four first volumes
of poems surveyed are any indication, there is reason
for hope.
· D.S.
RAO in THE PATRIOT reviewing the first volumes of
poetry by Vikram Seth, Rooma Mehra, Mihir K. Sen,
B.N. Raina )All four first volumes published by WRITERS
WORKSHOP
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There is a tinge of sadness, a touch of bitterness
that pervades her poems.
· M. VIJAYLAKSHMI
URS in COMMONWEALTH QUARTERLY
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Often she provides the glimpse of an intensely feminine
urge that distinguishes her.
She can turn a small number of words into a picturesque
image.
· ANAND
BAZAR PATRIKA
rooma's writing/Virtual Websites:
http://www.geocities.com/authorsjourney/roomamehra.htm
http://www.tribuneindia.com
http://www.lib.washington.edu
http://www.uta.fi
