S. Harshavardhana

BORN
1958 New Delhi

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
Master of Science in Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan
Diploma in Business Management
Self-Taught Artist

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Galerie J Bastien Art, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Ideations Color, shape, dimension and space, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2007-08 Lasting Insinuations from Far and Near, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2007 Searching for Reality, Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2007 Lines Maketh the Web, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2006 Sharp, Obtuse and Sometimes Right, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto, California, USA
2000 Luminous Ground, 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, Indian Fine Arts, 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 Awardee Exhibition, Art Alive, New Delhi
2008 Contemporary Abstract Art, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
2008 Stories, reflections and constructions, 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 Exhibition: 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, Center for Visual Arts, Hong Kong, China
2002 Navarasa, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2000 The Masks of the Millennium, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
1999 Art with Heart, Hotel Oberoi, New Delhi
1998 Veiled Spaces, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 Multimedia, Center International of Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta
1997 Postmodern Indian Art, Turlock, California, USA
1996 Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 The Pastel, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi

ABOUT THE ARTIST

S Harshavardhana abandoned a successful career as a bioscientist in 1993 to pursue his love of painting, a passion that remained merely a hobby for many years. Son of the modern master Jagdish Swaminathan, Harshavardhana's inclination towards art was almost a given.

Born in 1958 in New Delhi, Harshavardhana has a postgraduate degree in Biological Sciences from 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 devoting himself fully to his artistic vocation.

Harshavardhana is a self-taught artist who showcases his vast creative vocabulary in his highly textured yet colorful canvases. Deeply influenced by tribal art and symbols, he creates abstract geometric shapes (mostly inverted triangular structures built within carefully demarcated areas of color) that violently cut into each other. While some of these shapes blend, others create obvious scars, lending a distinctive character to his works.

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