PRASHAST KACHRU
prashastkachru@gmail.com

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ABOUT: Contemporary intermedia artist. Currently working with ceramics, socially engaged art, digital arts, neon art, and visual prototyping.


EDUCATION

2022    Arizona State University, Tempe/ M.F.A, Intermedia

1998    College of Art, Delhi/ B.F.A, Painting & Printmaking

1997    Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi/ Certificate program, Black & White Photography

2002    Alliance Francaise, Delhi/ French Language


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching & Mentoring/Workshops

2020-2022    Arizona State University/ Graduate Teaching Assistant, Herberger Institute of Design and Art.

2006-2007    Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), Delhi India/ Media mentor as part of the Educational Video Center Documentary Workshop, Adobe Youth Voices

2003-2006    Delhi Public School, Srinagar,  India/ Teaching Artist in Residence


Consultancies, Assistantships & Design Work

2012-13    ITSA Brand Innovations, Gurgaon, India/ Cultural Director

2006    Nuit Blanche, Paris, France/ Invited by Art Public Contemporain, to assist Subodh Gupta, to supervise the construction, execution and installation of the sculpture ‘Very Hungry God’ at St. Bernard church, Paris, France

2004    K.M.Madhusudhanan, India/ Creative assistant on ‘Reminiscences of a Blind Wrestler’

2001    National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, India/ Assisted French artist Bernard Monninot in his retrospective show at the NGMA, New Delhi, India

2001-2000    Nature Morte Art Gallery, Delhi, India/ Apprenticed with Peter Nagy at his art gallery in Delhi

2000-2006    Freelance Design & Concept Artist/ Logo and website design for Simha Foundation ; Cover images for the World Englishes book series, Hong Kong University Press, and the Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education ; text-book cover design for k-5 grade textbooks for Vasant Valley School, India ; print design work for India-based corporations such as Amsoft Systems, All India Panchayat Parishad, TAMS, Bubble Lounge, Friday Corporation, etc.

1999-2001    Himmat Shah (Artist/Sculptor), Delhi, India/ Studio apprentice

1998-1999    College of Art, Delhi, India/ Studio apprentice etching department


GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS/ ARTIST RESIDENCIES/PUBLICATIONS

2023    The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education/ Invited book chapter: Artistic practice as land acknowledgement.

2022    The Unstoppable Voters Project: Artists Who Vote/ Part of a collective project which was awarded $10,000 to create collaborative artwork around the role of the arts in civic participation. #Artistswhovote

2022    Herbert Smith Scholarship/ $3000 scholarship

2022    ASU Graduate College/ $750 Research Scholarship Award

2021    Center for Philosophical Technologies/ Fellowship, $1500 award

2021    Designing the Pluriversity Collective/ Provocation #9, in collaboration with Manisha Sharma  

2021    Herbert Smith Scholarship/ $3000 scholarship

2020    ASU Graduate College/ $750 Pandemic Impact scholarship award

2018    HH Art Spaces, Goa, India/ Artist in Residence for February, 2018

2011    Lalit Kala Academi, Lucknow, India/ Invited workshop (painting), at Lucknow University

2010    Art Karavan International/ Artist in Residence at Lucknow University

2007    Stainless Art Gallery/ Rs. 3,00,000 (USD 4,000) research award

2002-2003    École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France/ Fellowship in Atelier Giuseppe Penone (Sculpture)

1999-2002    Garhi Artist Village, Delhi/ Artist in Residence for Lalit Kala Academi

 
Selected ExhibitionS

2022    The Path Emerges While Walking, Solo show, at Step Gallery, Arizona State University.

2022    2022 Nathan Cummings Exhibition, Group show (juried), at  Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University.

2021    We Occupy, We Dis-cover, Group show, interventions at Undoing Time exhibit, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2018    Interventions in the Void, part of a Group show, HH Art Gallery, Goa, India

2017    Exhibition of works in parallel with Representing partition: India and Pakistan marking 70 years of independence, University of Cambridge, UK

2012    Re-making. Re-collection. Solo show, Abadi Art Space, New Delhi, India

2012    Decadence: A present history. Group show, Abadi Art Space, New Delhi, India

2012    Selections from Shoe Polish, Paan Stains, and Match Strike series, Selected (juried) show participant, India Art Fair, 4th Edition, New Delhi, India

2011    September Show, Project Jan Path. Group Show, New Delhi, India

2011    Color Trilogy, Project Jan Path. Group show, Abadi Art Space, New Delhi, India

2011   “…To be continued…”, Group show, Gallery Volte, New Delhi, in collaboration with FICA, Mumbai, India

2011    Black & White, Group show, Abadi Art Space, New Delhi, India

2011    Group show, Lalit Kala Academi, Lucknow India

2011    Group show, KECSS, New Delhi, India

2011    Art Karavan International, Group exhibition, Lucknow & New Delhi, India

2009    Group show. Lal Ded Cultural Center, New Delhi, India

2008    The Outer Circle: 16 Contemporary Voices of Indian Art, Group show, New Delhi, India

2007    The Art for Freedom Auction, Asia House, London, U.K

2005    Exhibition of photographic works at the Delhi Public School, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India

2003    Group show. Exhibition of conversational drawings at Gallery Gauche, ENSBA, Paris, France. Short film: Hot Boy with Kilian Glasner (Brazil) & Tove Krabo (Sweden) screened at KENO, Paris, France

2002    Egress-Ingress. Solo show. Drawings and paintings shown off-site sponsored by Gallery Nature-Morte, New Delhi, India

2001    Millennium Vision. Group show. Arushi Arts, New Delhi, India

2000    Art Exhibition 2000. Group show. Kala Chitra Parishad, Bangalore India

1999    Salute to Kargil Martyrs. Group show. Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India

1998    Workshop and Exhibition at Gandhi Darshan, New Delhi, India

1998    Walk for Life. Group show. Gallery La Mirage, British Embassy, New Delhi, India


Commissions

2018    Commissioned by the Tiwari family to paint a portrait of Indian political leader, N.D. Tiwari

1996    Commissioned by industrialist Aditya Birla to paint a mural at his Delhi residence

1996    Commissioned by hotel Holiday Inn (now Hotel Lalit) in New Delhi, to complete a large scale painting for the premises


Media

2015    Contemporary Goa: An abridged art ethnography. By Cleo Roberts in Envisioning the Indian city.https://eticproject.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/contemporary-goa-an-abridged-art-ethnography/  

2012    Earthy Transitions: India Art Fair 2014. By Prashast Gautam Kachru & Amrita Varma in Studio International. https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/earthy-transitions-india-art-fair-2014?id=2291&tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=

2012    Pick of the week. Coverage in Art and Culture segment of Hindustan Times. https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/pick-of-the-week/story-GkITCf4NiHgj1GtRmnaqLL.html

2012    From the diary. Coverage in Art and Culture segment of newspaper, The Hindu. https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/from-the-diary/article3010365.ece

2012    Collateral events of the India Art Fair. Coverage in online blog of Naresh Sagar on Sagar Media Inc.http://nareshsagar.blogspot.com/2012/01/collateral-eventsindia-art-fair.html

2011    He’s painting paan stains at fashion week. Interview by Divya Nair, on Rediff India. http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-glamour-lfw-day-one-artist-prashast-kachru/20110818.htm  

2011    Athoo.Did you just make some art?… Interview by Yamini Dennadayalan, for Tehelka newspaper.http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws130911Athooo.asp

 
Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations/Critiques

Oct-Dec 2017    Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, U.K/ Presentation of work at India Unboxed at symposium & exhibition titled: Representing partition: India and Pakistan marking 70 years of independence


Collectors

Artist Pension Trust Global

Abadi Art Collection at La Casa

Vishal Dhar & Sarah Killough-Dhar (private collection, New York)

Pradman Kaul (private collection, Washington D.C)

Shivani Kaul Gupta (private collection, Washington D.C)

Eva Silverstein (private collection, Stanford, CA)

Geoffrey & Lisa Feldkamps (private collection, New York)

Marissa McMahon (private collection, New York)

Patricia Kaul (private collection, New Delhi)

Anshul Avijit (private collection, New Delhi)

Angad Bhalla (private collection, New York)

Amit Bhalla (private collection, New York)

Anshul Abhijeet (private collection, New Delhi)

Meira Kumar (private collection, New Delhi)

Vineet Mahajan ((private collection, Mumbai, India)

Jose Abadi Lorente (private collection, Murcia Spain, New Delhi India)

Giuseppe Caravino & Amita Kachru (private collection, San Francisco)


Exhibition Juror


2004    Rendezvous at IIT Delhi, India/ Invited judge at art competition held by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

1999    Microsoft, Delhi, India/ Invited jury member for a nationwide art competition organized by Microsoft



Professional Organizations (Affiliations)

2012-2018    Artists’ Pension Trust Global / Member


Technical Abilities

High levels of proficiency in and across multiple artistic media such as

2D: Acrylic, conté, encaustic, etching, silkscreen, analog and digital photography.

3D: Ceramics, stainless steel, bronze

4D: Visual Prototyping and 3D printing techniques; video.

Also familiar with digital technologies such as Adobe CC


Travel/ Foreign Languages Spoken

Studied, lived and worked in India, France, Sweden, and USA. Fluent in English & Hindi and familiar at conversational levels in French, Kashmiri, Urdu, and Bengali.


References
Available on Request



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