Born in Mumbai in 1946, he had 18 solo exhibitions in India and abroad. He participated in major international exhibitions including Japan, Cuba, Bulgeria and 25-group participation’s at various places in India. He was also awarded the Senior Artist Fellowship by Government of India in 1987-89. His paintings are included in the Auction by Sotheby’s of London at Mumbai in 1995 and at London (1996) Shd3: “The shadow of Ankush (harpoon) does not leave me alone. It is an irony of my fate that I am humbled down”. 8/6/2002 Deepak Shinde has virtually inverted his imagery, which till the recent past was solidly figurative and representational into a mythic dream zone of quasi-abstraction. Half formed phantoms float in his canvases almost daring the viewer into giving them identity. A momentum of their own propels these denizens of inner reality. They carry memories of archaic murals and fleeting visions of a dream that is not quite articulated to its end effect. The lightness of being is evoked here and Shinde’s exploration of this twilight area between myth and reality seems to be an experiment, symptomatic of transience. Washes of colour and images influx seem to signal the rhythms and textures of reverie... Urban Images Shifting Sands, ExC Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Mumbai 1996.