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N S Harsha
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N.S. Harsha’s work demonstrates his unique artistic practice based on the manipulation of traditional Indian miniature painting, known for its intricate illuminations and delicate brushwork, into bold, even absurd images that reflect his narrative bent and strong political views. The astuteness of Harsha’s work lies as much in the scale of his depictions as it does in the meticulous detail of his painting.
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N.S. Harsha’s work demonstrates his unique artistic practice based on the manipulation of traditional Indian miniature painting, known for its intricate illuminations and delicate brushwork, into bold, even absurd images that reflect his narrative bent and strong political views. The astuteness of Harsha’s work lies as much in the scale of his depictions as it does in the meticulous detail of his painting.
Recognized as an artist with many skills, Harsha’s body of work straddles a variety of genres and mediums. His oeuvre includes large, detailed figurative paintings, miniature drawings, site-specific installations, community-based art as well as research projects. In his monumental, tapestry-like canvases, Harsha weaves detailed stories, skillfully depicting the daily goings-on of his own community alongside significant global events. Almost always figurative, these large-format works are populated with people who seem to be focused on an ordinary event, an activity the viewer would not typically consider uncommon. However, within these customary settings, the artist might discreetly point out something that is unusual, something comically strange.
Born in 1969, in Mysore, N.S. Harsha received his Master’s degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University, Baroda in 1995. He has taken part in numerous projects and exhibitions internationally including the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Arts, Australia, in 1999; the Second Fukuoka Asia Art Triennial in 2002; the Singapore Biennale in 2006; and more recently, in 2008, he won the prestigious Artes Mundi Prize, awarded at the National Museum in Cardiff. The artist lives and works in Mysore.
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Born
1969
Mysore, Karnataka
Education
1995 Master of Fine Arts (Painting), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts (CAVA), Mysore
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 'N.S.Harsha: Charming...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 'N.S.Harsha: Charming Journey', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2015 'Upward Movement', Victoria Miro, London
2013 'Tamasha', in cooperation with the façade gallery of Kule e.V. at the daadgalerie, Berlin
2009 'Picking through the Rubble', Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2009 'Nations', Installation at Iniva, London
2009 'Cultural Debris', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2008 'Come Give Us A Speech', Bodhi Art, New York
2008 'Left Over', Maison Hermès, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
2006 ‘Charming Nation’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Pause: A Collection', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon
2011 'Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2011 'Of Humour, Wit & Satire', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2010 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Orientations: Trajectories in Indian Art', Foundation 'De 11 Lijnen', Oudenburg, Belgium
2010 'Looking Glass: The Existence of Difference', Twenty Indian Contemporary Artists presented by Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi in collaboration with American Centre; British Council; Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
2010 'In The Company of Alice', Victoria Miro, London
2010 'Black and White', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2009-10 'All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Indian Contemporary Art in Global Times', Lakeeren, Mumbai
2009 'Simple Tales', Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai
2009 'Tracing Time', Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2009 'Excerpts from Diary Pages', Talwar Gallery, New York
2009 'Zip Files', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009 'Inaugural Show', Sakshi Gallery, Taipei
2008 'Reflections of Contemporary India', La Casa Escendida, Madrid
2008 'Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture', in association with Bodhi Art, and supported by the British Council, Kunststiftung NRW and the Provence of Antwerp at Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MuKHA), Belgium
2007 ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art From India’, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago
2007 'Future', Organized by Bamboo Culture International at Deng Kong Elementary School in Tamsui, Taiwan
2007 'Prospects', Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
2007 'Horn Please', Museum of Fine Arts, Berne, Switzerland
2007 'New Space', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2006 ‘El Filo del Deseo - Arte Reciente en India’, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Mexico
2005 Visiting Artist, Shantou University, Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, China
2005 ‘The Artist Lives and Works’, organized by the Fine Art Resource at the House of World Cultures, Berlin
2005 ‘Indian Summer’, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris
2005 Collaborative project with TVS School, Tumkur, India
2004 ‘Another Passage to India’, Ethnography Museum, Geneva
2004 ‘Artists-in-Labs (AIL)’, Center for Microscopy (ZMB), University of Basel, Switzerland
2004 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Asia Society & Queens Museum, New York, and traveling
2004 ‘Subtly Minimally’, Sakshi Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘Anticipation’, the Fine Art Resource, Mumbai
2003 ‘Crossing Generations: diVERGE’, 40 years of Gallery Chemould, NGMA, Mumbai
2003 ‘Highlights’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2003 ‘City Park’, Project Art Space, Dublin, Ireland
2003 Sanskriti Award, Sanskriti Pratishthan, New Delhi
2003 ‘Enchanting the Icon’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2003 ‘Portraits of a Decade’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2002 ‘Creative Space’, Sakshi Gallery, New Delhi
2002 ‘Brahma to Bapu: Icons and Symbols in Indian Art’, CIMA, Delhi
2001 ‘Drawing Space’, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2001 ‘Ten Years of Sakshi’, Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore
2001 ‘Edge of the Volume’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2001 ‘Works on Paper’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2000 ‘Drawing Space’, Beaconsfield Gallery in association with Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2000 ‘Embarkations’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1999 ‘Flying Arts’, Queensland, Australia
1998 ‘Terrain Vagues: Between Local and the Global’, Grandes Galleries, Rouen, France, & Herbert Read Gallery, Kent, UK
1998 ‘Cryptograms’, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai
1997 ‘Chinnaramela’, Rangayana Theatre Repertory, Mysore
1996 ‘Arcoss-da-Lapa’, Rio, Brazil
1995 ‘Young Baroda’, Art Today Gallery, New Delhi
1995 ‘Excavation 95’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1995 ‘Post Card to Gandhi’, Exhibition organized by Sahamat, India
Joint Exhibitions
2005 'Project Dublin', with Heather Allen at Project Gallery, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
2003 ‘Bha Bha Bha’, a collaborative project with Joan Grounds, supported by Asia Link, Australia
1997 '40 Days and 40 Nights', with Joan Grounds, 'Fire and Life Part II', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1996 ‘The Fire and Life', with Joan Grounds, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
Participations
2012 'Sub-topical Heat: New Art from South Asia', Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
2012 'Indian Highway VI', organized in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway at The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2012 'Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past', Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2012 Adelaide Festival, Australia
2011-12 'Shadow Lines: India Meets Indonesia', part of Biennale Jogja XI at Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta
2011-12 'Indian Highway', in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
2011-12 'Contemporary Miniatures', Traveling Exhibition from Queensland Art Gallery Collection at Redcliffe City Art Gallery; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery; Artspace Mackay; Logan Art Gallery; Mundubbera Regional Art Gallery; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery; Gympie Regional Gallery; Outback Regional Gallery, Winton, Australia
2011 'Spiritual Garlands', at John Rylands Library as part of Asia Triennial Manchester 11, Manchester
2011 'Fabular Bodies: New Narratives in the Art of the Miniature',
presented by Harmony Art Foundation at Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharah Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2011 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay', Centre Pompidou, Paris
2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2010 'Finding India: Art for the New century', presented by Sakshi Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
2010 'Scratch', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2010 'There is Always a Cup of Sea to Sail In', part of 29th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 'FIAC 2010' Paris represented by Victoria Miro
2010 'Sky Gazers', Installation as part of 'Touched ' part of Liverpool Biennial, UK
2010 'Armory Show', presented by Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2010 'Roots', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at The Park, Chennai; The Lalit Ashok, Bangalore
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2009 'The Work' for 'All That Is Solid Melt into Air / All Fixed Evaporated', Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
2009 'ARCOmadrid', Spain presented by curator Bose Krishnamachari for 'Panoroma: India'
2009 Sharjah Biennale
2008-09,10,11 'Indian Highway', a Traveling Exhibition presented in Collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at Serpentine Gallery, London; Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), Herning, Denmark; Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2008-09 ''Modern India', organized by Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture at Valencia, Spain
2008-09 ‘Expanding Horizons: Contemporary Indian Art’, Traveling Exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai; Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati; Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur; Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad; Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalay’s, Solapur; Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur; PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune; Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2008 Presented by Chemould Prescott Road at Art Basel Miami, Basel
2008 Represented by BodhiBerlin at Art Berlin Contemporary (ABC), Berlin
2008 'CIGE (China International Gallery Exposition)', Beijing presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2007 SH Contemporary, Shanghai, China, Presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘A Mirage’, Public Artwork at Kala Ghoda Festival, presented by Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2006 ‘Belief’, Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore
2005 Wanchai-Hong Kong International Artists Workshop, Hong Kong
2002 Artists Workshop, 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, Fukuoka, Japan
2002 Working Member, Khoj 2002 International Artists Workshop, Mysore and Bangalore
2002 ‘Aar Paar2’, India-Pakistan Art Exchange Project, Mumbai and Karachi
2001 Resident Artist, Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts (VAFA), Colombo, Sri Lanka
2000 ‘Aar Paar’, India-Pakistan Art Exchange Project, Mumbai and Karachi
1999 ‘Apt 3’, The Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, Australia
1998 Khoj: International Artists Workshop, Modinagar, New Delhi
1997 ‘The ‘Fire & Life’, Australia India Residency Exchange Program, organized by Asia Link in collaboration with Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1993 National Graphic Arts Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Bangalore
1993 Karnataka State Lalit Kala Academy Scholarship
Honours and Awards
2008 Artes Mundi 3, National Museum Cardiff, Wales, UK
2007...
2008 Artes Mundi 3, National Museum Cardiff, Wales, UK
2007 Residency at the Bamboo Curtain Studio in Tamshui, Taipei, Taiwan
2005 Visiting Artist, Shantou University, Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, China
2003 Sanskriti Award, Sanskriti Pratishthan, New Delhi
2001 Resident Artist, Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts (VAFA), 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
1993 Vasudev Arnawaz Scholarship
1992 Vasudev Arnawaz Scholarship
1992 Dasara Fine Art Award, Mysore, Karnataka
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