{"id":"uttam-nepali","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/uttam-nepali","language":"en","name":"Uttam Nepali","name_en":"Uttam Nepali","name_ne":"उत्तम नेपाली","description":"Nepali artist (1937-2021)","headline":"Nepali artist (1937-2021)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Uttam Prasad Karmacharya, better known as Uttam Nepali (Nepali: उत्तम नेपाली; 30 April 1937 – 21 July 2021), was a Nepali visual artist, writer, and actor.  A modernist painter, he was one of the pioneers of abstract art and experimentation in Nepal. He was also instrumental in establishing formal art education in Nepal. He produced abstractionist, expressionist and surrealist paintings throughout the 1960s and 70s, which were exhibited throughout Asia.","summary_more":["Nepali acted in two films in the early 1960s; he also published poetry. He was a lifetime member of Nepal Academy since 2000. Among his awards were National Genius Award, 2014, and Suprawal Janasewa Tritiya. He was married and had four children. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in later life. He died of cardiovascular problems in July 2021, aged 84."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"30 April 1937","date":"1937-04-30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107606593#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Kathmandu","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3037","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107606593#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"21 July 2021","date":"2021-07-21"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107606593#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30254119"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107606593#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107606593#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"painter","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1028181"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107606593#P106"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttam_Nepali","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107606593"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Uttam Nepali born?","a":"Uttam Nepali was born on 30 April 1937 in Kathmandu."}],"related":[{"name":"Araniko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/araniko"},{"name":"Tara Devi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tara-devi"},{"name":"Motiram Bhatta","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/motiram-bhatta"},{"name":"Rohit Saraf","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/rohit-saraf"},{"name":"Aanchal Sharma","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/aanchal-sharma"},{"name":"Anmol K.C.","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anmol-k-c"},{"name":"Indira Joshi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/indira-joshi"},{"name":"Jassita Gurung","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jassita-gurung"},{"name":"Pashupati Sharma","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pashupati-sharma"},{"name":"Richa Ghimire","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/richa-ghimire"},{"name":"Thinle Lhondup","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/thinle-lhondup"},{"name":"Usha Rajak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/usha-rajak"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/uttam-nepali-ac5b4d9562.jpg","width":445,"height":646,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Samidhaa","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shital_Niwas_Ram_Baran_Yadav,_Uttam_Nepali,_Geeta_Tripathee_(cropped).jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Uttam Nepali","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttam_Nepali","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): उत्तम नेपाली","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q107606593","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107606593","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Shital Niwas Ram Baran Yadav, Uttam Nepali, Geeta Tripathee (cropped).jpg by Samidhaa (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shital_Niwas_Ram_Baran_Yadav,_Uttam_Nepali,_Geeta_Tripathee_(cropped).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Uttam Nepali, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Shital Niwas Ram Baran Yadav, Uttam Nepali, Geeta Tripathee (cropped).jpg — Samidhaa, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Uttam Nepali\". DigiNepal. Last updated 4 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/uttam-nepali. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-04T06:41:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/uttam-nepali","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/uttam-nepali","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/uttam-nepali?lang=ne"}}