Ela Shah


At The Click Of A Mouse

Marriages Are Made In Heaven

Playing With Fate

Power Of Myth

Power Of Women


Ela Shah was born in Bombay, India. She began painting at a very early age. While she was living in India, she learned Indian miniature painting techniques as well as various Western styles. After receiving her Bachelors degree in Psychology and a Diploma in Fine Arts from India, she traveled around the world and subsequently moved to the United States and received her M.A. in sculpture at Montclair State University. Although an American citizen, she has been able to hold on to her Indian heritage and incorporate elements of it into her artwork along with Western influences.

Ela Shah has had numerous one-person shows in India and America. Her work has been exhibited in countless group shows in America and abroad in various prestigious galleries and museums like Museum of Modern Arts in New Delhi (India), Queens Museum of Arts (New York), William Benton Museum (Connecticut), Hunterdon Museum, Noyes Museum and Newark Museum (New Jersey), and other museums around the country. She has also held the position of chairperson for the National Association of Women Artists in NY and has curated shows for them and other art institutions.

Her work is in collection at NJ State Museum, Montclair Museum, Jersey City Museum, Newark Library, Hunterdon Museum, Air India, Indian Embassy, and other public places and private collectors. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including two awards from National Association of Women Artists in New York: the Amelia Peabody Memorial Award and Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award; the Dodge Foundation residency award; and the New Jersey Innovative Printmaking Fellowship at the Rutgers University. She has received the New Jersey State Council on the Arts 2003 fellowship for sculpture and 2006 fellowship for painting.

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