Syed Thajudeen

**Syed Thajudeen Shaik Abu Talib** (lahir 1943) ialah seorang pelukis Malaysia. Beliau terkenal atas karya-karya mural besarnya yang menampilkan latar tempat bersejarah tertentu penuh dengan perlambangan dan metafora yang membangkitkan estetika rasa yang lebih ketimuran.

Karya-karya beliau disegani dan diamati dalam perjalanan seantero dunia sejauh China, Eropah seperti Belgium dan United Kingdom sampailan ke Amerika Syarikat dengan sebanyak 10 pameran diadakan. 

## Biografi
Beliau dilahirkan pada tahun 1943 di kampung Alagankulam, Tamil Nadu, India. Beliau kemudiannya mengikuti keluarganya berhijrah ke Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.

Beliau melanjutkan pelajarannya dalam bidang seni halus di Government College of Arts and Crafts, Madras, India, sebelum menamatkan pengajiannya beriijazah diploma 1974. Setelah beliau kembali ke Malaysia, beliau menjadi pensyarah Institut Teknologi MARA dari tahun 1974 hingga 1976. In 1977, Syed Thajudeen joined the United Asian Bank as a resident artist.

### Kerjaya seni
Karya-karyanya banyak menghiasi balai seni (termasuk National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Singapore Art Museum, Beijing Olympic Museum, Galeri PETRONAS), rumah persendirian dan bangunan korporat serata dunia.

Beliau diberi penghormatan oleh kerajaan Pulau Pinang melalui penganjuran pameran "retrospektif" di Balai Seni dan Muzium Pulau Pinang pada tahun 2015. Beliau turut terlibat sebagai anggota Lembaga Pembangunan Seni Visual Negara Malaysia.

## Gaya seni
Banyak tema karyanya menyentuh tema-tema dalam budaya dan sastera Melayu sambil penggayaannya sangat dipengaruhi karya Paul Klee yang berjurusan Bauhaus serta latar belakang pendidikan Indianya. Beliau turut dipengaruhi mitologi Hindu yang sungguh berkait rapat tidak sahaja terhadap seni tampak dan lisan India malah juga seni Melayu, lalu unsur ini membentuk semangat jiwa pengkaryaan beliau.

## Himpunan karya

### Koleksi seni

* Balai Seni Visual Negara, Malaysia
* Muzium Seni Singapura, Singapura
* Muzium Olimpik, Beijing, China
* Galeri Petronas, Malaysia
* Bank Negara Museum & Art Gallery, Malaysia
* Penang State Museum & Art Gallery, Malaysia

### Pameran solo
1975 – 1st Solo Exhibition, Penang State Museum and Art Gallery, Penang

1975 – 2nd Solo Exhibition, Samat Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

1997 – 3rd Solo Exhibition, Pelita Hati Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2002 – Seroja, Sutra Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2004 – Love and its Many Splendoured Images, Sutra Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2006 – Cinta Tercipta… And there is Love…, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2007 – Cinta Tercipta… and There is Love, Pelita Hati, Kuala Lumpur

2007 – Women in Kebaya : A Tribute to Datin Paduka Seri Endon Mahmood, Tanjung Art Gallery, Penang

2010 – Paintings on Love, KL Lifestyle Art Space @ Jalan Maarof, Kuala Lumpur

2015 - Retrospective, Penang State Museum & Art Gallery, Malaysia

2018 - Splendours of Love: The Art of Syed Thajudeen, Soka Gakkai Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

### Pameran bersama

1965 – Group Show for the Opening of Penang State Museum by Tun Sir Raja Uda, Malaysia

1970–74 – Annual Shows, Government College of Arts and Crafts, Madras, India

1978 – Malaysian Art 1965–78, Commonwealth Institute, London, UK

1979 – Salon Malaysia, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

1982 – ASEAN Mobile Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur/ Singapore/ Jakarta/ Manila/Bangkok

1983 – 2nd Art Biennale, Bangladesh

1985 – 12 Malaysian Artist Exhibition, Taiwan

1988 – Contemporary painting of Malaysia, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA

1989 – 1st ASEAN travelling exhibition of painting, Photography and Children Art

1990 – National Open Show, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

1990 – Malaysian painting in Cologne, Germany

1990 – First Asian Symposium on Aesthetics Workshop and Exhibition

1991 – Asian International Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

1991 – Annual Open Show, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

1992 – Malaysian paintings in Brussels, Belgium

1993 – Malaysian Art 1993, Petronas Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

1994 – Islamic Art, Petronas Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

1994 – Time and Space -with Indian artists, Menara Maybank

1995 – Man and spirituality, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

1995 – International Islamic Exhibition, Jakarta, Indonesia

1998 – Malaysia Artist Group Show 1998, Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi, UAE

1998 – Rupa Malaysia, Brunei Gallery, University of London, England

1999 – Malaysian Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Museum of Art, Beijing, China

2001 – Open show, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2003 – 45 @45, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2004 – Contemporary Art of Malaysia at the turn of the 21st Century, Guangdong Museum of Art, China

2007 – Merdeka 50: A Celebration of Malaysian Art, Islamic Art Museum, Kuala Lumpur

2007 – Between Generations: 50 Years Across Modern Art in Malaysia, UM, Kuala Lumpur and USM, Penang

2010 – World Expo Shanghai, China

2012 – Olympic Games Art Exhibition, London

2013 – China Malaysia Friendship Exhibition, China

2013 – M50, MAP, Kuala Lumpur

2013 – Wajah M50, Morne Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2014 – ReImagiNation, Galeri Chandan, Kuala Lumpur

2015 – The Origin of Beauty, Busan Art Museum, Korea

2016 - Shah Alam Biennale, Malaysia

2016 - International Arts Invitational Exhibition, Taiwan

2016 - 8th Asian Art, Malaysia

2017 - Malaysia - China Cultural Art Exhibition, Malaysia

## Monograf
* Ibrahim, Ramli. 7 August 2002. *Seroja: an exhibition of oil paintings and ink drawings by Syed Thajudeen*. Sutra Gallery.2002
* Ibrahim, Ramli, "Cinta tercipta", Balai Senilukis Negara, 2006
* Ooi Kok Chuen, September 2015, “Syed Thajudeen Retrospective”, Penang State Museum, 2015

## Rujukan