Born in 1986 in Karnataka, Shailesh B.R. received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, specialising in painting, from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysore and has a post-graduate diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda. In
Born in 1986 in Karnataka, Shailesh B.R. received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, specialising in painting, from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysore and has a post-graduate diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda. In 2023, Shailesh was a resident at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. In 2021, he was a finalist for the Sovereign Art Prize and exhibited his work at the finalists’ exhibition in Hong Kong. He was awarded the FICA Emerging Artist Award in 2016 and the Inlaks Fine Arts Award in 2014. His practice revolves around the nature of processes – of philosophical thought, art and rituals, expressed through a visual vocabulary that makes the viewer reimagine the purpose and function of routine objects. His works are playful reconfigurations of philosophical thought through mechanical means. His drawings (which unapologetically reject any grammatical precision) question the staunch formalism associated with art and use the premise of honest artistic wonder instead to explore how errors can be made in how he sees, perceives and defends his ideas.
Academics
B.F.A in painting from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysore
Post-graduation diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda.
Awards
Seed Funding provided by Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, 2021
FICA Emerging Artist Award, awarded by Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, 2015
Nasreen Mohamedi Award - Best Annual Display Award at MS University, Baroda, India, 2015
Born in 1986 in Karnataka, Shailesh B.R. received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, specialising in painting, from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysore and has a post-graduate diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda. In 2023, Shailesh was a resident at the Institute of
Born in 1986 in Karnataka, Shailesh B.R. received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, specialising in painting, from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysore and has a post-graduate diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda. In 2023, Shailesh was a resident at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. In 2021, he was a finalist for the Sovereign Art Prize and exhibited his work at the finalists’ exhibition in Hong Kong. He was awarded the FICA Emerging Artist Award in 2016 and the Inlaks Fine Arts Award in 2014. His practice revolves around the nature of processes – of philosophical thought, art and rituals, expressed through a visual vocabulary that makes the viewer reimagine the purpose and function of routine objects. His works are playful reconfigurations of philosophical thought through mechanical means. His drawings (which unapologetically reject any grammatical precision) question the staunch formalism associated with art and use the premise of honest artistic wonder instead to explore how errors can be made in how he sees, perceives and defends his ideas.
Academics
B.F.A in painting from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, Mysore
Post-graduation diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda.
Awards
Seed Funding provided by Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, 2021
FICA Emerging Artist Award, awarded by Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, 2015
Nasreen Mohamedi Award - Best Annual Display Award at MS University, Baroda, India, 2015
Inlaks Fine Arts Award, 2014
Gold Medal awarded at Mysore University, 2013
Javugal Trust scholarship, 2012
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions :
Shooting Stars, a solo exhibition at In Touch, Virtual Show at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2022
Displacement, a solo exhibition at Delhi Art Weekend, Bikaner House, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2021
The Last Brahmin a solo exhibition at Villa Arson Centre d'art Contemporain, Nice, France, 2020
Notes to Self at VAG Fresh, an online solo exhibition by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2020
TARKA at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2017
Group Exhibitions:
India Art Fair, New Delhi, India, 2020-23
“Posthumanism” at ACT Studio. Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea, 2023
Art SG, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 2023
“Magical Hackerism” at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, 2022
“The Light Side of The Moon”, The Armory Show, Javits Center, New York, 2022
“A Handful of Dust”, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi India, 2022
Display at India Art Fair , Vadehra Art Gallery, and FICA, 2022
Language is Migrant, Abu Dhabi Edition, Dubai, 2022
Language is Migrant, at Colomboscope, Sri Lanka, 2022
Represented at Hub India, Turin, Italy by Vadehra Art Gallery, 2021
(Pro)Found Object, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2021
Notes from the Lockdown at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, 2021
Sovereign Asian Art Prize, The Finalists Exhibition, Hong Kong, China, 2021
Indian Art Fair, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2020
Big Biennale, Geneva, Switzerland, 2019
Delhi Contemporary Art Weekend, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2019
Caressing History, Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2018
Remembering the Present, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2018
Babur ki Gai, Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2018
Residencies:
Artist in Residence at Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju, South Korea, 2022
Villa Arson Artist Residence, Nice, France, 2020
Embassy of Foreign Artists Residency, Geneva, Switzerland, 2019
Sara Art Residency, Shimoga, Karnataka, New Delhi, 2018
Khoj International Workshop, Goa, India, 2017
Atelier Mondial / Pro Helvetia – Swiss Art Council, Basel, Switzerland, 2016
Peers Emerging Artists’ Residency, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, India, 2015
Sandarbh Art Residency, Paratapur, Rajasthan, India, 2014
BAR-1 at Bangalore Artist Residency, Bengaluru, India, 2012
