In this exhibition you'll witness 20 Member nations, 9 guest nations from all over the world and 20 Indian artists coming together for art.
Jayasri Burman
Jayasri Burman
Her medium ranges from flat-surfaces to dimensional artworks. Ink, watercolour, oil, acrylic, charcoal, pencil on canvas or paper have all been important mediums for her. Her sculptures engage with details of materiality and techniques. Burman holds a critically acclaimed position in exploring iconography and cultural practices. She has been a recipient of many awards and accolades around the globe and, in particular, she was awarded the National Award in 1985.
Jayasree Chakravarty
Jayasree Chakravarty
Jayashree Chakravarty is a Kolkata based Indian visual artist, working with the medium of paintings, and large-scale installations of paper with mixed media. Rooted in the themes of ecology and nature, her works often include organic materials such as grass, roots, leaves and seeds with paper.
Sunil Padwal
Sunil Padwal
Primarily a painter who has worked in varied mediums. His work comprises line drawings, paintings, sculptures, photography and installations. But for the last ten years, he has focused solely on drawing-based work. He lives and works in Mumbai. He has shown his work extensively in India, and his paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally.
Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta
Born Khagual, Bihar, trained as a painter and then he went on to experiment with a variety of media. His work has stood out in major international biennials and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions across Asia, Europe and America. In a highly reductive language, he combines formalism with the wry, incisive understanding of symbols and forms used in contemporary India.
Bose Krishnamachari
Bose Krishnamachari
An accomplished artist and independent curator with a diverse range of creative practices. His artistic pursuits encompass drawing, painting, sculpture, design, installation, and architecture. He holds the esteemed position of President of the Kochi Biennale Foundation. Throughout his career, Krishnamachari has participated in numerous significant solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
Ayesha Seth Sen
Ayesha Seth Sen
A mixed media collage artist who was born and brought up in new Delhi India.She has had 4 solo shows and participated in many groups shows in different cities across India and Thailand and the United Kingdom and America. She has collectors all over the world and also enjoys running collage workshops for children and adults.
Seema Kohli
Seema Kohli
An experimental multi-disciplinary artist, straddling the worlds of the visual and performing arts, as well as poetry. Kohli has had over 32 solo shows and over 300 group shows all over the world. Her work is a celebration of the female form and energy as the source creation and destruction. She attempts to create new artistic identities by reshaping belongings, bringing the past and the present into a dialogue through a process of decay, hybridization and transformation.
KS Radhakrishnan
KS Radhakrishnan
Born in Kottayam district of Kerala in 1956, he is recognised as one of the most significant figures of contemporary Indian art. He is a sculptor and bronze has remained his prominent medium for a long time.
Sudarshan Shetty
Sudarshan Shetty
Moving from painting exclusively to installation early on in his career, he explores the fundamental ontological challenges presented by our immersion in a world of objects. His installations are developed around a rigorous grammar of materials, mechanical exposure and unlikely juxtapositions of things that may belong to culturally distinct spheres.
Paresh Maity
Paresh Maity
Spanning nearly four decades of his artistic oeuvre, hehas created and explored various mediums in art including watercolour, oil and acrylic paintings, mixed media, sculptures and photography. During the last 35 years, he has held 88 solo exhibitions and his work that includes a diverse ensemble of landscapes, abstracts, portraits and figures has been widely exhibited in galleries, museums and art fairs in India and across the globe.
Arpana Caur
Arpana Caur
Exhibited since 1974 in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Chennai, London, Glasgow, Berlin, Amsterdam, Singapore, Munich, New York, in Stockholm and Copenhagen National Museum, Osaka Print Triennele and Delhi Triennele. Since 1981 she did large non-commercial murals in Delhi, Bangalore, Hamburg and Kathmandu in public spaces.
Rajat Ghosh
Rajat Ghosh
He is the pillars of sculpture. There is magic in his hands. There is passion in his heart. On one hand there is a deep connection with soil, and on the other hand there is also love for metal and iron work. His art journey has been going on for more than four decades
Sanatan Dinda
Sanatan Dinda
Sanatan Dinda is a renowned Indian artist known for his exceptional talent in Western-style painting. Born in 1971 in Kolkata, he graduated with first-class honors in 1992, earning a Bachelor of Visual Arts degree from the esteemed Govt. College of Arts & Crafts in Kolkata. Notable exhibitions include 'Survival' (1996) and 'Of Human Comedy' (1998).
Chandra Bhattacharji
Chandra Bhattacharji
Chandra Bhattacharjee was born in 1960. He graduated from the Indian College of Art and Draughtsmanship with a first class in 1986. He was honoured by the President of India as artist in residence at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Besides paintings, photographs, printmaking and films are also part of Chandra’s art practice.
GR Irrana
GR Irrana
Iranna's art is characterized by its deep exploration of human existence, spirituality, and social issues. His thought-provoking creations have garnered critical acclaim and can be found in prominent collections, including the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and the Singapore Art Museum.
Ravinder Reddy
Ravinder Reddy
An Indian Sculptor of International repute whose works adorn museums and form part of the prized personal collections both in the country as well as several countries in South East Asia, Europe, U.A E. along with U.S.A. His metier, scale and handling of the medium is an inventive revalidation of the vernacular as well as the tradition of the country, to contemporary ethos and expression.
PR Daroz
PR Daroz
Daroz’s commissions for architectural ceramics are much sought after in both, the private residences and public spaces across India. His passion for innovative and experimental use of equipment, adaptation of new technologies to the Indian context and use of indigenous material have been a driving force in establishing many ceramic studios in several prestigious art institute
Himmat Shah
Himmat Shah
Shah has widely experimented across forms and mediums, making burnt paper collages, architectural murals, drawings and sculptures, though he sees himself as primarily a sculptor. His self-designed tools and innovative techniques give his preferred medium – terracotta – a contemporary edge.
Raghu Rai
Raghu Rai
He is the only photographer in the world to get ' Academie Des Beaux Art' Paris Awards 2019. In 2012, Raghu Rai has created the Raghu Rai Center for Photography to share his 50 years of knowledge and experience with the young generations. He has done extensive documentation of 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy and his photo essays have appeared in many of the world’s leading magazines and newspapers.
Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay Kumar
An artist, and poet known for his black and white large scale charcoal works representing his interpretation of the form of Buddha. He now primarily works in sculptural media since the past decade and the mid-career retrospective at the Bihar Museum, 2023 established a review of his oeuvre. His sculptural installation Parikrama is on permanent display at the Bihar museum.
Jayasri Burman
Jayasri Burman
Her medium ranges from flat-surfaces to dimensional artworks. Ink, watercolour, oil, acrylic, charcoal, pencil on canvas or paper have all been important mediums for her. Her sculptures engage with details of materiality and techniques. Burman holds a critically acclaimed position in exploring iconography and cultural practices. She has been a recipient of many awards and accolades around the globe and, in particular, she was awarded the National Award in 1985.
Jayasree Chakravarty
Jayasree Chakravarty
Jayashree Chakravarty is a Kolkata based Indian visual artist, working with the medium of paintings, and large-scale installations of paper with mixed media. Rooted in the themes of ecology and nature, her works often include organic materials such as grass, roots, leaves and seeds with paper.
Sunil Padwal
Sunil Padwal
Primarily a painter who has worked in varied mediums. His work comprises line drawings, paintings, sculptures, photography and installations. But for the last ten years, he has focused solely on drawing-based work. He lives and works in Mumbai. He has shown his work extensively in India, and his paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally.
Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta
Born Khagual, Bihar, trained as a painter and then he went on to experiment with a variety of media. His work has stood out in major international biennials and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions across Asia, Europe and America. In a highly reductive language, he combines formalism with the wry, incisive understanding of symbols and forms used in contemporary India.
Sunil Padwal
Sunil Padwal
Primarily a painter who has worked in varied mediums. His work comprises line drawings, paintings, sculptures, photography and installations. But for the last ten years, he has focused solely on drawing-based work. He lives and works in Mumbai. He has shown his work extensively in India, and his paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally.
Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta
Born Khagual, Bihar, trained as a painter and then he went on to experiment with a variety of media. His work has stood out in major international biennials and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions across Asia, Europe and America. In a highly reductive language, he combines formalism with the wry, incisive understanding of symbols and forms used in contemporary India.
Bose Krishnamachari
Bose Krishnamachari
An accomplished artist and independent curator with a diverse range of creative practices. His artistic pursuits encompass drawing, painting, sculpture, design, installation, and architecture. He holds the esteemed position of President of the Kochi Biennale Foundation. Throughout his career, Krishnamachari has participated in numerous significant solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
Ayesha Seth Sen
Ayesha Seth Sen
A mixed media collage artist who was born and brought up in new Delhi India.She has had 4 solo shows and participated in many groups shows in different cities across India and Thailand and the United Kingdom and America. She has collectors all over the world and also enjoys running collage workshops for children and adults.
Seema Kohli
Seema Kohli
An experimental multi-disciplinary artist, straddling the worlds of the visual and performing arts, as well as poetry. Kohli has had over 32 solo shows and over 300 group shows all over the world. Her work is a celebration of the female form and energy as the source creation and destruction. She attempts to create new artistic identities by reshaping belongings, bringing the past and the present into a dialogue through a process of decay, hybridization and transformation.
KS Radhakrishnan
KS Radhakrishnan
Born in Kottayam district of Kerala in 1956, he is recognised as one of the most significant figures of contemporary Indian art. He is a sculptor and bronze has remained his prominent medium for a long time.
Sudarshan Shetty
Sudarshan Shetty
Moving from painting exclusively to installation early on in his career, he explores the fundamental ontological challenges presented by our immersion in a world of objects. His installations are developed around a rigorous grammar of materials, mechanical exposure and unlikely juxtapositions of things that may belong to culturally distinct spheres.
Paresh Maity
Paresh Maity
Spanning nearly four decades of his artistic oeuvre, hehas created and explored various mediums in art including watercolour, oil and acrylic paintings, mixed media, sculptures and photography. During the last 35 years, he has held 88 solo exhibitions and his work that includes a diverse ensemble of landscapes, abstracts, portraits and figures has been widely exhibited in galleries, museums and art fairs in India and across the globe.
Arpana Caur
Arpana Caur
Exhibited since 1974 in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Chennai, London, Glasgow, Berlin, Amsterdam, Singapore, Munich, New York, in Stockholm and Copenhagen National Museum, Osaka Print Triennele and Delhi Triennele. Since 1981 she did large non-commercial murals in Delhi, Bangalore, Hamburg and Kathmandu in public spaces.
Rajat Ghosh
Rajat Ghosh
He is the pillars of sculpture. There is magic in his hands. There is passion in his heart. On one hand there is a deep connection with soil, and on the other hand there is also love for metal and iron work. His art journey has been going on for more than four decades
Sanatan Dinda
Sanatan Dinda
Sanatan Dinda is a renowned Indian artist known for his exceptional talent in Western-style painting. Born in 1971 in Kolkata, he graduated with first-class honors in 1992, earning a Bachelor of Visual Arts degree from the esteemed Govt. College of Arts & Crafts in Kolkata. Notable exhibitions include 'Survival' (1996) and 'Of Human Comedy' (1998).
Chandra Bhattacharji
Chandra Bhattacharji
Chandra Bhattacharjee was born in 1960. He graduated from the Indian College of Art and Draughtsmanship with a first class in 1986. He was honoured by the President of India as artist in residence at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Besides paintings, photographs, printmaking and films are also part of Chandra’s art practice.
GR Irrana
GR Irrana
Iranna's art is characterized by its deep exploration of human existence, spirituality, and social issues. His thought-provoking creations have garnered critical acclaim and can be found in prominent collections, including the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and the Singapore Art Museum.
Ravinder Reddy
Ravinder Reddy
An Indian Sculptor of International repute whose works adorn museums and form part of the prized personal collections both in the country as well as several countries in South East Asia, Europe, U.A E. along with U.S.A. His metier, scale and handling of the medium is an inventive revalidation of the vernacular as well as the tradition of the country, to contemporary ethos and expression.
PR Daroz
PR Daroz
Daroz’s commissions for architectural ceramics are much sought after in both, the private residences and public spaces across India. His passion for innovative and experimental use of equipment, adaptation of new technologies to the Indian context and use of indigenous material have been a driving force in establishing many ceramic studios in several prestigious art institute
Himmat Shah
Himmat Shah
Shah has widely experimented across forms and mediums, making burnt paper collages, architectural murals, drawings and sculptures, though he sees himself as primarily a sculptor. His self-designed tools and innovative techniques give his preferred medium – terracotta – a contemporary edge.
Raghu Rai
Raghu Rai
He is the only photographer in the world to get ' Academie Des Beaux Art' Paris Awards 2019. In 2012, Raghu Rai has created the Raghu Rai Center for Photography to share his 50 years of knowledge and experience with the young generations. He has done extensive documentation of 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy and his photo essays have appeared in many of the world’s leading magazines and newspapers.
Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay Kumar
An artist, and poet known for his black and white large scale charcoal works representing his interpretation of the form of Buddha. He now primarily works in sculptural media since the past decade and the mid-career retrospective at the Bihar Museum, 2023 established a review of his oeuvre. His sculptural installation Parikrama is on permanent display at the Bihar museum.
Jayasri Burman
Jayasri Burman
Her medium ranges from flat-surfaces to dimensional artworks. Ink, watercolour, oil, acrylic, charcoal, pencil on canvas or paper have all been important mediums for her. Her sculptures engage with details of materiality and techniques. Burman holds a critically acclaimed position in exploring iconography and cultural practices. She has been a recipient of many awards and accolades around the globe and, in particular, she was awarded the National Award in 1985.
Jayasree Chakravarty
Jayasree Chakravarty
Jayashree Chakravarty is a Kolkata based Indian visual artist, working with the medium of paintings, and large-scale installations of paper with mixed media. Rooted in the themes of ecology and nature, her works often include organic materials such as grass, roots, leaves and seeds with paper.
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