About

Amrao Gill US-based contemporary artist

An artist and a poet, has lived and worked in Boston since 1980. He was born in Chilla, a small village in Punjab, India, in 1951. Before he studied at the school of The museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he received a four – year diploma in Technical Painting (1983), Amrao had received a five year diploma in applied arts from the college of Fine Arts Chandigarh(1972). He has had many group and solo shows both in India and US. Amrao has worked for Sikh Dharma of Massachusetts, depicting Sikh history on large paintings (1984-1990), was and expert in fine art at Punjab School Education Board (1977- 1980), and painted large murals on the evolution of life for the University Museum, Punjabi University (1973-1977)