Hailing from a village that is located a little outside the city of Bangalore in the borders of Karnataka and Tamilnadu, The conflict of the urban and rural has always been the center of my works. As the city continues to devour the little villages around them, displacing the people and forcefully including them as participants of the urbanization process. We can see lot of memories like bricks plants in farm lands, the formers its self made brick plants in their own land to use themselves to built their own houses but in some cases they made plants but they not use bricks again they become dump in farm land they became old structures in land, I thought to bring those memories in my paintings, I think this is soil to soil again, It is the anxiety of displacement, loss of identity and concerns of environment that form a premise of my works. The language of miniatures has always intrigued me and I continue to use its influence it has had as a part of my work. Water color is my favorite medium I like to work in wet flowing method reminiscing the past and thinking of what the future holds for us is all about my works .
Education : MASTERS IN VISUAL ARTS FROM CHITRAKALA PARISHAT IN 2007, BANGALORE BACHELORS IN VISUAL ART FROM CHITRAKA PARISHAT IN 2005, BANGALORE
Solo show : 2010 – SOLO exhibition in SAMUHA ART COLLECTIVE, Bangalore. 2012 – Residency and SOLO Exhibition “METAPHORS” In Bangalore art residency (BAR1).
Group show : 2006 – Camlin art foundation the eight southern regions, Group Exhibition. 2007 –MVA annual group exhibition. In Chitrakala galleries. 2007- Karnataka Lalitha Kala Academi group show Beyond traces,shades and anorex in Goa, conducted by Karnataka Government. 2008 – Group show “Some other views” in Pallete art gallery, Jodhpur 2008 - A Group show “ The contemporary art in kuwaith and cairo” organized by Lalith Kala Academy, New Delhi. 2009 - A Group show organized by Govt. Of Karnataka held in Mangalore. 2009 – A Group show organized by “Shrusti Art Gallery” Hyderabad. 2010 – ROBERT BOSCH ART GRANT “Dakshina pinakini river mapping and Landscape Survey” at Venkatappa art gallery, Bangalore. 2013 – Interactive installation work called “please take one rose” in Delhi . 2014 -2018- Studio photography 2019 – Performance in chitrasanthe Bangalore by Giving Roses to artists
Awards : Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath Scholarship-2005 Yusaff Arakkal and Babu Eswar Prasad Scholarship for Materials and award in 2006. Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath award-2006. Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath award-2007.
