currently based in the United States of America
EDUCATION
2022
M.F.A, Intermedia Art. Arizona State University, USA.
1998
B.F.A, Painting & Printmaking. College of Art, Delhi India.
1998
Certificate program, Black & White Photography. Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi India.
2002
French Language Certificate. Alliance Francaise, Delhi India.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 The Path Emerges While Walking, Solo show, at Step Gallery, Arizona State University.
2002
Egress-Ingress. Drawings and paintings shown off-site sponsored by Gallery Nature-Morte, New Delhi, India
Group Exhibitions
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
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 mentions
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
Grants / Fellowships/ Artist Residenies
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
Bibliography
2025 (accepted).
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Arts Based Research. Invited book chapter co-authored with Manisha Sharma: Insights into artistic practice on the frontiers of work and war.
2023
The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education/ Invited book chapter: Artistic practice as land acknowledgement.
Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations/Critiques
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
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
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)
Greg Kidd (private collection, Lake Tahoe)
Teaching & Mentoring/Workshops
2023
University of North Texas/ Adjunct Faculty in Intermedia Art and Figure Drawing, College of Visual Art and Design.
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