Born in 1969, NS Harsha lives and works in Mysore, India. Harsha was the recipient of the prestigious Artes Mundi 3 Prize in 2008 and has taken part in a variety of collaborative projects and exhibitions internationally. He has had solo presentations at INIVA, London (2009), and at Maison Hermes Tokyo (2008), and has been included in various group presentations, including the 26th Sao Paulo Bienal (2010), Liverpool Biennial (2010), Indian Highway at the Serpentine Gallery (2008) travelling to Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2009), Herning Art Museum, Denmark (2010) and Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (2011), the 9th Sharjah Biennial (2008) and Valencia Institute of Modern Art, Spain (2008).

Born in 1969
Lives and works in Mysore, India

EDUCATION

1995    MFA, Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, India
1992    BFA, Painting, CAVA, Mysore, India

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2009    Victoria Miro Gallery, London (forthcoming) Iniva, Institute of International Visual Arts, London (forthcoming)
2008    Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London Artes Mundi 3, National Museum Cardiff, Wales, UK Santhal Family, Positions around an Indian sculpture, Muhka Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium Leftovers, Maison Hermes, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan (Solo Exhibition) Come give us a speech, Bodhi Art, New York (Solo Exhibition) Expanding Horizons, Curated by Sudhir Patwardhan, Bodhi Art, New York
2007    Future, Deng Kong Elementary School, Tamsui, Taiwan, organized by Bamboo Culture International Prospects, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy Horn Please, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne, Switzerland SH Contemporary, Sakshi Gallery, Shanghai, China,
New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Center, USA A Mirage (public artwork), Kala Ghoda Art Festival, presented by Bodhi Art, Mumbai Private / Corporate IV, Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany New Space, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2006    Charming Nation, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Max Meuller Bhavan, Bangalore (Solo Exhibition) Belief, 1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2005    The Artist Lives and Works, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, organized by The Fine Art Resource Mural, Project Art Space, Dublin, Ireland Indian Summer, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, France Collaboration Project with TVS School, Tumkur, India
2004    Another Passage to India, Ethnography Museum, Geneva, Switzerland Artists-in-Labs, Center for Microscopy (ZMB), University of Basel, Switzerland Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Asia Society & Queens Museum, New York, and traveling Subtly Minimally, Sakshi Gallery, New Delhi Anticipation, The Fine Art Resource, Mumbai
2003    Crossing Generations: diVERGE, 40 years of Gallery Chemould, NGMA, Mumbai Highlights, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
City Park, Project Art Space, Dublin, Ireland Enchanting the Icon, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
bha bha bha, a collaborative project with Joan Grounds, supported by Asia Link Australia Portraits of a Decade, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
2002    Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery, New Delhi 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, Fukuoka, Japan Aar Paar2, India-Pakistan art exchange project, Mumbai, India and Karachi, Pakistan Brahma To Bapu: Icons and Symbols in Indian Art, CIMA, Delhi
2001    Drawing Space, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK 10 Years of Sakshi, Chitrakalaparishat, Bangalore Edge of the Volume, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore Works on Paper, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
2000    Aar Paar, India-Pakistan art exchange project, Mumbai, India and Karachi, Pakistan Drawing Space, Beaconsfield Gallery in association with Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Embarkations, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1999    apt3, The Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, Australia Flying Arts, Queensland, Australia
1998    Terrain Vagues: Between Local and the Global, Grandes Galleries, Rouen, France & Herbert Read Gallery, Kent, UK
Cryptograms, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai
1997    Chinnaramela, Rangayana Theatre Repertory, Mysore, India
1996    Fire & Life, collaborative exhibition with Joan Grounds, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore Arcoss-da-Lapa, Rio, Brazil
1995    Young Baroda, Art Today Gallery, New Delhi Excavation 95, CIMA Gallery, Calcutta
Postcards to Gandhi, exhibition organized by Sahmat, India 1993    National Graphic Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Bangalore

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2005    Visiting Artist, Shantou University, Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, China
2003    Sanskriti Award, Sanskriti Pratishthan, New Delhi
2001    Resident Artist, ‘VAFA’ Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka
1997    Fire & Life: 40 Days 40 Nights, residency exchange program in collaboration with Asia Link, Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1993    Karnataka State Lalit Kala Academy Scholarship
Vasudev Arnawaz Scholarship
1992    Vasudev Arnawaz Scholarship Dasara Fine Art Award, Mysore

ARTIST WORKSHOPS

2007    Visiting artist workshop, CAVA, Mysore, India
2005    Wanchai-Hong Kong International Artists Workshop, Hong Kong
2002    Khoj 2002, International Artist’s Workshop, Mysore and Bangalore, India
Artist Workshop, Sirpur Paper Mills, Andhra Pradesh
1998    Khoj, International Artist’s Workshop, Modinagar, New Delhi
1994    Painters Camp, Diu, organized by West Zone Cultural Center, Rajastan