• Ravi kumar Kashi

    Ravi kumar Kashi was born in Bangalore in the year 1968.

    Ravikumar Kashi’s deconstruction of familiar images demands the rethinking of representation. It further stresses the ambivalence or hybridity that characterises the site of juxtaposition: a liminal space in which different meanings are articulated and may also take on imagined constructions. In fact meaning is formed in between or in excess of the sum of its parts. In this sense the boundary becomes the place where something new begins. In Ravikumar Kashi’s work it becomes the place that mediates relative meanings and a site where new meanings come into existence..

  • Education

    • BFA, Painting, College of Fine Arts, Bangalore, 1988.
    • MFA, Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Vadodara,
    • 1990. MA, English, Mysore University, 1995.
    • Studied handmade papermaking under J. Parry, Papermaking Resource, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK, with a grant from the Charles Wallace India Trust, 2001
    • Visiting faculty, Dept. of Architecture, RV College of Engineering, 1994 - 2004.
    • Guest Faculty, Dept.of Visual Arts, Bangalore University, 2004 - 05.

  • Exibitions

    • Solo shows in Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, and Hyderabad in India and London & Glasgow, U.K., Palo Alto, California, U.S.A
    • Group shows in India and in Munich, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong , Glasgow, Perth, Mexico, Toronto, Dubai, Nairobi, including 10th Triennale of India, New Delhi.
    • 11th Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
    • Arad Biennale, Romania.
    • Edge of Desire traveling show of Recent Indian art shown in Perth - Australia, New York, USA; Mexico.

    Participation

    • International Art Fairs, represented by Gallery Sumukha
    • Selected for Best of Discovery section, 07, International Art Fair, Shanghai, China.
    • Art Santa Fe 08, New Mexico, USA
    • KIAF, Seoul, Korea, 2008;
    • KIAF, Seoul, Korea, 2010.

    Awards

    • Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi Award, three times.
    • National Award, 2000.
    • Writes on art in Kannada and English which is published in various magazines and newspapers.

    Ravi Kumar Kashi lives and works in Bangalore.