Dr. Manoj Singrakhia (UG 1990) embodies a rare synthesis of healing and artistry. A distinguished alumnus of Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College & KEM Hospital, he has built a career anchored in clinical excellence while pursuing a parallel creative calling that gives visual form to the human experiences he witnesses daily in medicine.

A Career Built on Precision and Compassion
After graduating from GOSUMEC, Dr. Singrakhia pursued advanced training in spine surgery across India, the United States, and Canada. He now serves as Founder and Director of Shanta Spine Hospital in Nagpur, bringing specialized care to patients with complex spinal conditions. His academic contributions include publications and book chapters that advance the field of spinal surgery, and he has held faculty appointments at medical colleges throughout Maharashtra.

The Artist-Surgeon: Where Two Worlds Meet
Dr. Singrakhia’s artistic practice emerged from the same space as his medical work—the operating room, where he encounters human vulnerability in its rawest form. In 2022, he formalized this creative pursuit by completing a Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts at the Royal College of Art, London, bridging the technical precision of surgery with the expressive freedom of visual art.

His work occupies a territory between Impressionism and Expressionism, rendered in oil, ink, watercolor, and charcoal. What sets his figurative paintings apart is a deliberate choice: he omits facial features. This absence transforms individual subjects into universal vessels, allowing viewers to project their own stories and emotions onto faceless forms. The technique shifts focus from personal identity to shared human experience—suffering, resilience, joy, transformation.

Symbolizing a Century of Healing

Dr. Singrakhia’s artwork graces the cover of the Centenary Volume commemorating 100 years of Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College & KEM Hospital (1925–2025). The image functions as visual storytelling, translating institutional memory into symbolic language.

Winged sandals and an elixir bag evoke the hospital’s journey through time—movement, healing, the constant work of medicine. Green tones suggest calm and recovery, the quiet aftermath of crisis. Bold reds and umbers in the foreground represent the diseases and struggles that have entered KEM’s doors across generations. The figure moves forward, embodying the hospital’s continued commitment to healing, its work extending into an open future.

This is not decoration but narrative—a century of care condensed into color, form, and motion.

Exhibitions: Building a Body of Work

Dr. Singrakhia has exhibited extensively in India and abroad, establishing himself within contemporary art circles while maintaining his surgical practice.

Solo Exhibitions

• Unseen — Nehru Centre, Mumbai (2025)
• Flow — Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2025)
• Unseen / Flow — Dubai International Art Centre (2026)

Group Exhibitions

• London, Nagpur, Mumbai, Dubai (2022–2025)

His signature series—Unseen, Flow, Raga, and Divine—explore themes of identity, spirituality, movement, and sociopolitical reality, while conceptual installations push into more experimental territory.

The GOSUMEC Legacy: Where Science Meets Soul
Dr. Singrakhia’s dual practice reflects something essential about the GOSUMEC tradition: the conviction that medicine is both science and art, that healing requires not only technical skill but imagination, empathy, and the ability to see patients as whole human beings rather than collections of symptoms.

Whether restoring mobility to injured spines or creating paintings that give form to invisible emotional landscapes, his work serves the same fundamental purpose—to understand suffering, restore dignity, and affirm the value of human life.