Raja Changez Sultan (born 6 December 1949) is a Pakistani poet and painter. He produces landscape and portrait paintings in both oil and charcoal and has published several books of poetry.
He has held over 70 exhibitions in Austria, England, Switzerland, Oman, and Pakistan,[1][2] with the most notable ones at the Winter Palace in Vienna (1992) and Cadogan Contemporary in London (1991).
Biography
Early life and education
Born in his family's ancestral village of Shakarparian.[3] He attended Lawrence College, Ghora Gali before earning a full scholarship to Shrewsbury School in England. He then went on to study at Trinity College and Columbia University. At Columbia he completed two master's degrees, one in journalism and the other in creative writing and painting.[4]
He worked for over 25 years in the tourism sector of Pakistan.[6]
Pakistan National Council of Arts
Sultan was appointed as director general[7] for the Pakistan National Council of the Arts in Islamabad where he advanced the work of artists, thinkers, writers, and the visual and performing arts. During his four-and-a-half year tenure at the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA), Sultan helped spearhead over 60 major visual arts exhibitions which included photography, paintings and sculptures. During his tenure at the PNCA, he helped organise events such as the National Drama Festival and National Music Festival.
Recognition
Artistic work
Paintings
His first series of paintings was The Divided Self [7] to showcase the multiple personalities we each have in us. His second series was The Himalyan Odyssey based on his travel in the mountains. Another series called The Crucifixion of Eve which is to represent how women are put on the cross everyday as she bears the brunt of responsibility of the world,
Poetry
Sultan has written 4 books on poetry exploring the themes of his ancestral home, the himalayan mountains and human psycohology.
