Artist View

Born in 1958 in New Delhi, Harshavardhana holds a postgraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and a diploma in Business Management. He worked in senior management positions in the biomedical industry for many years before wholly pursuing his artistic calling.

Harshavardhana is a self-taught artist who displays his vast creative vocabulary in his heavily textured but plainly coloured canvases. Deeply influenced by tribal art and symbols, he creates abstract geometric forms - mostly inverted triangular structures constructed within carefully demarcated areas of colour - that are violently cut into one another. While some of these forms blend in, others create obvious scars, bringing a distinctive character to his works.

The artist's works have been exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions around the world. His solo shows include Enduring Intimations from Far and Near at Gallery Espace, New Delhi, in 2007-08; Seeking the Reality at Indigo Blue Art, Singapore, in 2007; Lines Maketh the Web at Aicon Gallery, New York, in 2007; and Acute, Obtuse and Sometimes Right at Aicon Gallery, California in 2006. He lives and works in New Delhi.

BORN
1958 New Delhi

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
M.Sc. in Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan Diploma in Business Management

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Galerie J Bastien Art, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Ideations: Colour, Form, Dimension and Space, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2007-08 Enduring Intimations from Far and Near, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2007 Seeking the Reality, Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2007 Lines Maketh the Web, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2006 Acute, Obtuse and Sometimes Right, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto, California, USA
2000 Luminous Terrain, Lakeeran Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Sangati, Art Inc., New Delhi
1997 Wanderings, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Aviraam: Celebrating the Pioneer Spirit- S H Raza at 90, presented by The Raza Foundation at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2011 The Lost Sparrow, presented by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2011 Form and Formlessness, Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon
2011 Cross Currents, Art Positive, New Delhi
2010 Black is Beautiful, India Fine Art, Mumbai
2010 Beyond Objecthood, presented by Gandhara Art Gallery at Nandalal Bose Hall, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata
2009-10 On Canvas -1, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
2009 Think Small, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2009 Moderns and More, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto, California, USA
2009 Divagations: Spaces of Possibility, Raza Foundation Awardees Show, Art Alive, New Delhi
2008 Abstract Contemporary Art, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
2008 Tales, Reflection and Constructs, ITC Windsor, Bangalore
2007 High on Art, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2007 Colors of Art, presented by Galerie Sara Arakkal and Gallery Art Resource Trust at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 Drawing Show an Act of Art II, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 Confluence, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Indian Artists for France, New Delhi
2004 Young Contemporary Artists, New Delhi
2003 Cultural Ties, Apparao Galleries, New Delhi and Mumbai
2003 2D / 3D, Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
2002 Navarasa, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2000 The Millennium Masks, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
1999 Art with Heart, Hotel Oberoi, New Delhi
1998 Veiled Spaces, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 Multi Media, Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1997 Postmodern Indian Art, Turlock, California, USA
1996 Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 The Pastel, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi

Notification - We do not usually display S. Harshavardhana's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.

WhatsApp -