Curator
Riyas Komu
Curatorial Advisor
Amrith Lal
Curatorial Assistant
Anuj Daga
Young Subcontinent Artists
Abdul Halik Azeez, Sri Lanka
Aman Wadhan, India
Anupama Alias, India
Anuradha Upadhayay, India
Farzana Urmi, Bangladesh
Isuru Kumarasinghe, Sri Lanka
Jeanno Gaussi, Afghanistan
K L Leon, India
Kabi Raj Lama, Nepal
Kedar Dhondu, India
Kishor Kayastha, Nepal
Mekh Limbu, Nepal
Parag Sonarghare, India
S P Pushpakanthan, Sri Lanka
Saju Kunhan, India
Shrimanti Saha, India
Susiman Nirmalavasan, Sri Lanka
Teja Gavankar, India
Zainab Haidary, Afghanistan
Biographies
Abdul Halik Azeez
Colombo, Sri Lanka (b.1985)
Abdul Halik Azeez is a photographer based in Colombo Sri Lanka. His work is often activist in nature, superimposing a surrealist, spiritual and decolonial lens on the political, economic and cultural. He has worked as a journalist, economist and a development sector consultant and currently studies the use of language in new media. His work has been exhibited at the Saskia Fernando Gallery in Colombo, various other Sri Lankan spaces and Internationally in Dubai and Greece.
Aman Wadhan
Pune, India (b. 1982)
Aman Wadhan works as a filmmaker and cinematographer. He attended the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, receiving a post-graduate diploma in film direction. His practice is research-based, process-oriented and includes film, photography and text—an on-going exploration of living with awareness in light of transience. His films are stirred by spatial hauntings of memory, focussing on specific locations and micro-histories, often tracing blind spots of representation from the cultural margins, bringing different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence.
Anupama Alias
Hyderabad, India (b. 1990)
Anupama Studied MFA Painting at Hyderabad Central University and did her BFA & MFA Applied Art from RLV College of Music and Fine Arts. Her artworks reflect the way of society transformation and addresses rapid shifts and infliction in everyday life. Currently, she lives in Hyderabad.
Anuradha Upadhyay
Baroda, India (b. 1993)
Anuradha Upadhyay is an artist and performer based in Baroda. She has completed her bachelors in painting and masters in Print making from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, in Gujarat, India. Anuradha likes to explore the concept of duality within her works. She attempts to capture not places but rather spaces that have a history and also a certain sense of mystery. Laden with metaphors and conjunctions, her work reflects the grim truths of the current society and happenings. It appears in variable combinations of drawing, printmaking, painting, photography, and performance art. Anuradha has participated in several workshops, art camps and group exhibitions at Delhi, Baroda and other towns in Gujarat. The artist lives and works in Baroda.
Farzana Ahmed Urmi
Dhaka, Bangladesh (b.1980)
Dhaka-based artist Farzana Ahmed Urmi’s practice focuses on printmaking and painting. Her work is heavily influenced by the people she encounters in her daily life. Her canvases are full of human stories, some from people that she only knows from a glimpse on the street or from television, and others are from people close to her, but personal contact in variable proximity is important to her work. She completed her MFA and BFA in printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka and has participated in several art camps and residencies in Bangladesh, Spain, and Japan.
Isuru Kumarasinghe
Sri Lanka (b. 1987)
Isuru began delving into the expanse of sonic artistry and music at the age of 13. From his early days creating original music with computer software, Isuru’s interest later deepened towards the recondite nature of sound experience, acoustic potential and expanding perception of listening. He was largely a part of the Sri Lankan underground art scene as experimental musician visual and sound artist, and has also done several sound performances. Isuru Kumarasinghe currently is part of Musicmatters Collective and co-organizing Musicmatters festival of non mainstream/experimental music in Colombo.
Jeanno Gaussi
Afghanistan (b. 1973)
Jeanno Gaussi, born in Kabul, is a Berlin based mixed media artist. She started her art career as a video and film artist and has been shown internationally in many festivals. The works of Jeanno Gaussi deal with questions of cultural identity and the storage of memory-scraps. Gaussi’s multicultural background – born in Kabul in 1973, raised in Kabul, New Delhi and Berlin – has a major impact on her artistic work. From 2007, Gaussi has extended her art practice to also include photographic artworks and installations (found objects) where she manifested many projects in her residencies in Pakistani, Jordanian, Turkish and German galleries.
Kabi Raj Lama
Kathmandu, Nepal (b. 1986)
Kabi Raj Lama is a contemporary Nepali printmaker based in Kathmandu. He is a graduate of the Kathmandu University Center of Art and Design and received training on woodcut and lithography the Meisei University, Tokyo under the tutelage and apprentice of esteemed Japanese printmaker Shibuya Khazuyoshi. Lama was part of the Steindruck Stipendium, Munich and the Guanlan Print-making Forum, Shenzen, China.
Kedar Dhondu
Goa, India (b. 1981)
Kedar grew up in Mandrem village of North Goa. He studied BFA from Goa College of Art in 2005 and MFA from Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Communication, Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad in 2008. Kedar is interested in unpacking human conditioning and behavior. He invites viewers to involve themselves empathetically in his works by using emotive images of animals as metaphors for human behaviour. More recently, he is interested in the relationship between this grotesqueness and beauty. He is interested in things that people usually don’t want to look at in art, things they think that are ugly. He experiments these ideas currently in Mandrem, Goa.
Kishor Kayastha
Bhaktapur, Nepal (b. 1978)
Kishor Kayastha grew up taking pictures of the ancient Nepali town of Bhaktapur. His work has redefined the traditional landscape photography in Nepal. Kayastha’s pictures deal with the transcendence of time and stand as the solicitor describing the past and documenting the future. Traversing along with slides, film and digital, Kayastha captured the dances of light and shadows, photographing the contrast and getting lost in between. He established K2 Art Factory intending to mould his photographic stakes and to train the next generation of photographers in Nepal.
K. L. Leon
Kerala, India (b. 1974)
Born in Thrissur, Kerala, K L Leon completed a Bachelors in Fine Arts from College of Fine Arts Thiruvananthapuram in 2001 and a Masters in Painting from SN School, Hyderabad Central University in 2003. He also has a degree in Botany from Calicut University, Kerala. Leon is a recipient of a merit scholarship and a gold medal from Hyderabad Central University. He has been awarded residency with scholarship and studio practice at Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad (2005-2007). The artist lives and works in Kochi.
Mekh Limbu
Kathmandu, Nepal (b. 1985)
Mekh Limbu is Kathmandu-based visual artist. He received his MFA from the Central Department of Fine Arts , Tribhuwan University. He is lecturer at Lalitkala Campus,Tribhuwan University. He was awarded the Kathmandu Contemporary Art Center’s Residency Scholarship and created a body of work “Sequential Dissonance” which was exhibitedat the Siddhartha Art Gallery, 2013.Mekh Limbu’s paintings are the quest for the artist’s own identity. He is involved in activities of LASANAA- an alternative art space and with Artree Nepal.
Pakkaiyarajah Pushpakanthan
Sri Lanka (b.1989)
P. Pushpakanthan holds Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 2014. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual & Technological Arts, Swami Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic Studies (SVIAS), Eastern University, Srilanka. Pushpakanthan work across a range of mediums, including drawing, painting, mixed media, installation, performance and video Art.
Parag Sonarghare,
Baroda, India (b. 1987)
Born in 1987 in Nagpur, Parag Sonarghare has received his BFA in painting from Govt. Chitrakala Mahavidyalaya Nagpur University, Nagpur and an MVA in Art History and Aesthetics from M.S. University in Baroda. Parag has begun to evolve a practice that explores the crossings and connections between painting and performance.
Saju Kunhan
Mumbai, India (b.1983)
Born in Palakkad, Kerala, Saju Kunhan finished his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Painting from the Government College of Fine Arts, Thrissur, Kerala in March 2006. His mixed media works on wood deal with archiving and the interpretation of the image in a new context. His practice also focuses on the issues of urbanization and consumer culture. Saju has participated in various exhibitions, camps and workshops, primarily around Kerala. He currently lives and works in Mumbai.
Shrimanti Saha
Baroda, India (b. 1987)
Shrimanti was born in West Bengal and completed her BVA and MVA from M.S.University, Baroda. Her practice is rooted in the act of drawing, storytelling, narrative and the creation of a personal mythology. She received Inlaks Fine Arts award (2015) and has been part of group shows at Vadehra Art gallery, New Delhi (2016); Nature Morte, Gurgaon (2014); Gallerie 88, Kolkata (2014) and others. She has worked on Illustration projects at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT, Mumbai and with Scholastic Publishers, New Delhi; and has conducted workshops with students at M.S.U on Story, Image making and collage. The artist lives and works in Baroda.
Susiman Nirmalavasan
Batticaloa, Sri Lanka (b.1982)
Susiman Nirmalavasan is a contemporary visual artist and activist based in Batticaloa, Srilanka, His practice comprises of Visualizing the images which occur through his life experiences and experimenting new approaches and exhibiting, making visuals through the conceptual activities with the people from different age groups in the society.
Teja Gavankar
Mumbai, India (b. 1986)
Teja makes drawings on paper and urges to make drawings in space too. She is interested in subverting perceptions of mundane spaces through a nuanced understanding of their physical and psychological underpinnings. Her current experiments with spaces aim to look at them as “mental states” seen in pushing things from everyday situations and surroundings to an extreme, playing with the minds of the viewer. She believes that alteration, transformation and distortion will create these psychological states in actual physical space.
Zainab Haidary
Afghanistan (b. 1991)
Zainab Haidary was born in Daikondi province of Afghanistan and studied BFA at Art faculty in Kabul University, Afghanistan in 2013. Currently, she is studying in the School of Art in Bremen, Germany. Since 2008, Zainab worked as an independent photographer and join with A.P.N. (Afghan Photographers Network). In 2011, she was as teacher assistance in Marefat Art gallery and exhibited some of her art pieces there at the same time. Later that year, her works were also shown in the Culture House of Afghanistan which were highly welcomed by its audience. Zainab is an artist of dOCUMENTA(13) thus, has exhibited her artworks in Kassel, Germany and Kabul in 2012. She is also obsessed with writing and has been publishing cultural articles for open daily society newspaper in Afghanistan and some independent sites.
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