- 1971 Born in Kerala, India
Education
- Bachelors in Fine Arts, Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai
- Masters in Fine Arts, Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai (1999)
1971 Kerala, lives and works in Mumbai.
The monumental sculptures and canvases of RK probe the political implications connected with the changes of modern India, formulating positions of critique and protest.
Selected exhibitions: Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai; Visual Art Center, Hong Kong; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; 52nd Venice Biennial.
Select Solo Exhibitions
- 2009 Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2008 Bodhi Art Gallery, Berlin
- 2008 MARK HIM (Second half), Gallery 88, Kolkata
- 2007 MARK HIM (First half), The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2006 Systematic Citizen, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
- 2006 Faith Accompli, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
- 2005 The Third Day, Lalit Kala Academy, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi presented by Sakshi
- 2005 Gallery, Mumbai
- 2005 GRASS, photography show, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2003 Sarasu, photography show on Raja Ravi Verma Press , The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2002 UNCONDITIONAL, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
- 2002–2003 AMBULANCE, Renaissance Art Gallery, Bangalore
Select Group Exhibitions
- 2010 Inside India, Palazzo saluzzo di Paesana, Torino, Italy
- 2008 The Ghost of Souza, inaugural show in Bowery space, Aicon Gallery, New York
- 2007 Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, 52nd International
- 2007 Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
- 2007 INDIA NOW:Contemporary Indian Art Between Continuity and Transformation
- 2007 Provincia di Milano, Milan, Italy (through February 2008)
- 2007 Kashi ten light years, Kashi Art Gallery, Mattancherry, Kochi
- 2007 Frame/Grid/Room/Cell/, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2007 INDIA TIME,Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi, Milan, Italy
- 2007 Swarovski Museum, Innsbruck, Austria
- 2007 New Wave: Contemporary Indian Art, Aicon Gallery,London , UK
- 2007 Grid, Bodhi Art Gallery, New Dehli
- 2007 Photographs, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
- 2007 Other, inaugural show, Aicon Gallery, London, UK
- 2007 Annual show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
- 2006 Bronze, sculpture show, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
- 2006 Art on the Beach, Made by Indians, St Tropez, Gallery Enrico Navarra, Paris
- 2006 On Difference #2 (represented Korea), Wurtt. Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
- 2006 Maarkers, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2006 Red Earth And The Pouring Rain, Lanxess ABS Gallery, Baroda
- 2006 Strangeness, Anant Art Gallery, Kolkatta
- 2005 KAAM, Aicon Gallery, New York and Palo Alto
- 2005 Span, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
- 2005 Endless Terrain, Lalit Kala Academy, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
- 2005 Double Enders, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Cochin
- 2005 Present Future, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
- 2005 Configurations, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
- 2005 Are we like this only? Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
- 2005 Whose space is it anyway? Gallery Espace, New Delhi
- 2005 Mannat Jali, Marine Drive, Mumbai
- 2005 Public Art Project, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
- 2005 World Social Forum, Brazil.
- 2004 Group show during VASL Residency, Karachi, Pakistan
- 2004 Anticipations, Museum Gallery, Mumbai
- 2004 Bombay Boys, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
- 2004 A New Mediatic Realism, Bayer ABS Gallery, Baroda, India
- 2004 Generation I, Saffron Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2004 RED, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
- 2004 Mumbai x 17, Kashi Art Gallery, Cochin, India
- 2003 Crossing Generations :Diverge, 40 years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
- 2003 Highlights, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
- 2003 2D/3D, Visual Art Center, Hong Kong
- 2003 Ideas and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
- 2003 Art for Art/ Switzerland Meets India, Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai
- 2002 Ways of Resisting 1992- 2002, Sahmat/ Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
- 2002 Words and Images, The Guild Art Gallery/ National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
- 2002 Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery/ India Habitat Center, New Delhi
- 2002 Crosscurrents, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2002 Asian Art Festival, Singapore
- 2002 Harmony Shows (2004-1999), Nehru Centre, Mumbai
- 2002 Debt, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2002 Tribute to Picasso, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2001 The Human Factor, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2001 Engendering Images of women, The Guild, Mumbai
- 2001 Excerpts from my diary, Fine Art Company, Mumbai
- 2000 Mumbai Metaphor, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 2000 Exile Longings, Lakeeren Art G
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