Born in Thrissur, Kerala, 1966
Currently lives and works in Bangalore
Qualification
MFA in 1995 and BFA in 1992 form Kalabhavan, Santiniketan, West Bengal, 1995.
Award & Scholarships
Kanoria Scholarship for Print Making, 1997.
Junior Fellowship, research in fiber art, 97-99, Awarded by Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
Kerala State Lalit Kala Academy award 1997-98.
Cultural Scholarship (93/95) Awarded by Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi.
Honorable Mention, West Bengal State Exhibition, Calcutta Information Centre, 1992.
Merit scholarship. Kalabhavan, Santhiniketan, 89-94
Round Table 38 Calcutta, 1987-92
Solo and Two Persons Shows
Bologna ART FIRST (ART FIERA 2008) ,Milan Italy, January 2009.
Viart Gallery, New Delhi, 2007
Two Persons Show at Crimson Art Gallery, Bangalore, Nov., 2007.
Two Persons Show at Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi, April, 2007.
Two Persons Show at Kashi art gallery, Kochi, March-2003
National Human Rights conference at M.R.A. Centre, Panchagani, Maharashtra, 2000 – 01.
Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad presented by Kerala Lalithkala Academy, 2000.
Two Persons Show, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, 1997.
Major Group Shows
SH Contemporary . Shangai .Sep 2008.presented by Viart Gallery
Small format show ,Gallery Kolkata Sept 2008
The cool School. Group Show The Art Trust.Mumbai Sept 2008
The sun rises in the east..contemporary art from India. Aug 2008. gallerie Christian hosp.Triol.Austria.
Metropolis And Self, A group show, Art Alive Gallery, August 2008.New Delhi.
India ART Submit, New Delhi. August 2008 . New Delhi
Triva contemporary Annual Show . Aug 2008 Trivandrum.
ART BEAT, The Shrine Gallery August 2008, New Delhi.
Group show , 1x 1 art gallery Dubai june 2008
“Representation” a group show at Triva contemporary ,Trivandrum-may 2008
“Engendered” group show at Lincoln centre New York april,2008
Trends & trivia an Indian story…visual arts centre Kennedy Road, Hong Kong. March 2008
Trends.. hotel Trident new delhi march 2- 2008
Group show, Avanthay contemporary, Zurich Feb. 2008
Young contemporary of India-Jan-08, gallery Kolkata, Kolkatta
Annual show Gallery MEC-Feb. 08, New Delhi
Group Show at Gallery One x One, Dubai, Dec. 2007
Emerging India, a group show of young contemporary artists, organized by Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi & S. A. Fine Arts, London, at The Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, Aug. 2007 ‘Harvest‘ annual show, Gallery Arushi Arts, new Delhi, Aug. 2007
Art works on paper, show curated by Niyatee Shinde, at Gallery Articulate, Mumbai, Aug. 2007.
Generation Next, New Trends in Contemporary Indian Art, group show organized by Art Alive gallery, Visual Art Centre, New Delhi, Aug. 2007.
Art for Prabhat, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, July 2007.
Summer show 2007, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, June 2007
Art for freedom, a rare London auction of leading Indian Artists, Asia House London, organised by Tehelka, June 2007.
Inaugural show, Gallery Kolkata, May 2007.
Group show Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, May 2007.
Reading Paint, inaugural show at Soul Flower Gallery, Bangkok, April 2007
Art chutney.com inaugural show at Taj Westend, Bangalore, March 2007
Waging peace, at Arts For Peace Gallery, New York, Jan. to March 2007
The big draw exhibition of black and white works, at Crimson and The Art Resource, Bangalore, Jan. 2007
Rock+music+art Group show organized by Gallery Art Resource, Mumbai, Dec. 2006
Compensation for what has been lost, curated show at Travancore Art Gallery, Nov. 2006
Paper flute...Works on paper at Gallery espace, curated by Johny . M. L, Oct. 2006
‘Waging Peace’ international Exhibition curated by Troy West and Claudia Flynn, Rhode Island, USA, Oct. 2006.
Three Persons Show at VIART Art Gallery, New Delhi, Oct. 2006
Gandhi Satyagraha Centenary Exhibition, Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi and Kizo Gallery, Durban, South Africa, Curated by Jayaram Poduval, Sept. 2006.
Real 2006, India Habitat centre, New Delhi, May 2006.
The Second Coming - the Quotable Stencil - Part Two, curated by Himanshu Desai, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2005.
Fly high my beloved birds -Tribute to Ashokan Poduval, Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2005.
National Exhibition, New Delhi, (organized by Central Lalitkala Academy), 1998.
National Exhibition, Bangalore (organized by Central Lalitkala Academy), 1997.
All India Art Biennale of Rajasthan, 1997.
State exhibitions, Kerala State Lalitkala Academy, 1996-97.
All India Exhibition, Birla Academy, Calcutta, 1996.
Group Show, Rabindra Bhavan Art Gallery, New Delhi, 1996.
Eastern India Print Biennale, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, 1995.
Print Today, Bangalore, 1993.
Five Young Artists from Santiniketan sponsored by Round Table 38, Birla Academy , Calcutta, 1992.
Workshops Conducted
Lecture and Demonstration on Serigraphy at West Zone Cultural Centre, Udaipur, March 1998.
Print Making Workshop conducted at Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad, May 1999.
Lithographic Workshop conducted at College of Fine Arts, Thrissur, February 1999.
Space ‘n’ space, Workshop conducted at CEPT, Ahmedabad, 1999.
Lecture and demonstration on stage craft organized by THE HINDU Young world at Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi, May 2001
Art Wear work shop and Fashion show conducted at NIFT, Bangalore, 2002
Workshop on Art, 2005, IIT, Madras.
Theatre Experience
Visualized and directed few plays including Tagore, Samuel Backets, and Badal Sarkar’s etc
‘Beyond the Vermillon Dreams’ an adaptation of Kumaranasan’s and Tagore’s text, performed at Natarani, Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Ahmedabad.
‘Notes from hand kerchief’s end’ performed at National Human Right Conference, at M.R.A. Centre, Panchagani, Maharashtra.
The ‘mud angel‘ performed at CEPT campus, Ahmedabad
Widely traveled, taught art and design in, School of Architecture, CEPT & Kanoria centre Ahmedabad and NIFT, Chennai and Bangalore
Major collections in India and abroad
