|
|
|
|
|
Visual artist and rapper Sumit Roy blends painting and typography to produce contemporary images that reflect ongoing political anxieties in India. Roy graduated from the M S University of Baroda with a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts, majoring in Painting with a minor in Photography, and is also a self-taught designer.
Roy's practice, which is rooted in the mural tradition of the art school, reinvents this genre on canvas, drawing...
Read More
Visual artist and rapper Sumit Roy blends painting and typography to produce contemporary images that reflect ongoing political anxieties in India. Roy graduated from the M S University of Baroda with a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts, majoring in Painting with a minor in Photography, and is also a self-taught designer.
Roy's practice, which is rooted in the mural tradition of the art school, reinvents this genre on canvas, drawing on sociopolitical contexts and popular culture to address layered contemporary issues. Both his art and his music attempt to challenge perceptions. "My aim is to design a detente between the distinct and perhaps even discordant threads of fine art and rap, Indian and Western aesthetic sensibilities. The white cube of the gallery space is often perceived as cold and unwelcoming while rap music is often thought to be a lower art form, emerging as it did from the streets… While the messaging is not overtly political, it is, in a sense, disruptive, disturbing the current status quo and presenting a viewpoint that is, I hope, subtle but also catalyzing for an audience that would not traditionally consume the kind of art and the kind of performance I am presenting to them." (Artist quoted in "Building bridges, bending rules," Deccan Chronicle, 29 January 2018, online)
Education
• BVA in Painting, M S University of Baroda
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 2018 Homegrown Street, Latitude 28, New Delhi
• 2018 I Hope to Match Your Furniture, Latitude 28 and Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
• 2013 Centurion, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
• 2011 Centurion, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
• 2012 Audi Art Exhibition, New Delhi
Participations
• 2018 India Art Fair, New Delhi
• 2013 Italian Embassy Art Auction, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
• 2014 Red Elephant Award for typography at Kyoorious Design Yatra
• 2012 Winning Designer at Mood Indigo, Mumbai
Read Less
|
|
|
|
|
PAST StoryLTD AUCTIONS
Showing
1
of
1
works
Need help? For more information on Indian Art, please see our Art Guide. For help
with buying through Saffronart please click here. If you have any other questions, please contact us.
|