The Solitude-Bury Drawing

"I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetic sense and experiment with finding new visual phenomena. " Gopakumar R (born in Oachira, Kerala, India) is an Indian contemporary artist and the first largest Digital Art Collector from India. Academic Qualification: 1990-1995 Five Year NDFA Painting (BFA) from The Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Mavelikkara, Kerala, India. Training: 2007 History of Art Diploma Course – London Art College, UK. 2012 – Contemporary Art – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA 2014 – Catalysts: Artists Creating with Sound, Video, and Time training from Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA. 2015 ART of the MOOC: Merging Public Art and Experimental Education, Duke University. Exhibitions 2019 Objectified 2019 CICA Museum, South Korea. 2016 Alert Not Alarm - Unpresentable in Presentation, Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Kochi, Kerala, India 2015 Vastu – Dialogues on Post-Performance Object, Nanappa Art Gallery, Kochi, Kerala, India. 2015 Sofia Underground – International Performance Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria. 2014 Critical Juncture, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India (Exhibition and Residency) 2014 Tate Britain, UK - Source Spotlight Display – Texture & Collage Exhibition. 2014 The Saatchi Gallery, Saatchi Art and Google+ The Motion Photography Prize Exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. 2013 Art Meets Poetry, sponsored by The City of Torino, Arte Città Amica, Torino, Italy. 2013 Colours - Peace & Solidarity, Ã…rjängs Bibliotek, Galleri Passagen, Sweden. 2012 Art Meets Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Poetry Exhibition - Arte Città Amica, Torino, Italy. 2012 Immagine & Poesia Beausoleil: Gianpiero Actis and friends of the Movement - Municipal Cyberspace Beausoleil, France. 2011 Exhibition on the 150th Anniversary of Italian Unification - Homage to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Arte Città Amica, Torino, Italy. 2011 Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Grafica Manzoni, Torino, Italy. 2010 "Nature & Nurture", Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction Art Gallery, USA. 2009 Art Exhibition, ISE Cultural Foundation New York, USA. 2000 Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain. 1996 Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Kerala, India. 1991 - 1995 Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Kerala, India. www.gopakumar.in