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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