Artist Chintan Upadhyay, who was arrested in connection with the murder of his wife Hema and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani in December, had been planning the.
A sessions court in Mumbai on Tuesday sentenced artist Chintan Upadhyay to life imprisonment days after he was held guilty of criminal conspiracy along with..
Chintan Upadhyay
Indian artist
Chintan Upadhyay (born 1972) is an Indian visual artist, and convicted murderer.
He began his art career as a painter, but later created sculptures and installations.[1] His best known sculpture project is perhaps the Pet Shop project, which is an ongoing production of a "model baby" for every season, Baby Fetish.[2][3][4]
He was awarded the Charles Wallace Foundation Award for Residency in Bristol, UK in 2012.[5][6][7]
Early life
Chintan was born on 18 August 1972, in Partapur in Rajasthan, India.[8] He received a BFA degree in 1995, and MFA degree in 1997, both degrees in painting are from the Faculty of Fine Arts from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, in Gujarat, India.[1]
He met artist Hema Hirani in 1992, and the couple was married in 1998.[2] They settled in Mumbai, and worked together in many art exhibitions.[