Bodhi Selvam

Bodhiselvam
25-October-1969
Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu.

Buddha paintings, Mr. Bodhiselvam, who has given a new dimension to our
conceptions of Buddha and explored the unchartered terrains in the Buddhist
enlightenment.
How Buddha would have looked like? The painter’s lines and dots provide an
answer to this mystic question.
Why has he chosen Buddha as the pivotal force for his portraits? The way
Siddhartha in the third century B.C shed his cozy and comfortable princely life and
set out to get at the root of answers to some mysterious questions about life,
struggle and death has charmed Mr. Bodhiselvam. The spell is so deep and
everlasting that he set out to identify his life and outlook with Buddhist teachings
and also draw up portraits of Buddha in His state of nirvana.

His paintings dexterously recapture the very moment of Buddha’s enlightenment,
the ‘sambodhi’ moment as he calls it. He says about how he was captivated by His
journey towards the roots of the universe.
Disrobing himself of the royal comfort, he went out in search of the roots. Initially meeting five saints or sanyasins, he undertook a severe and austere penance, subjecting himself to a rigorous
schedule of denial, forgoing food and water for ye...

freelance self taught artist

1997 Osho commune, Pune
2001 little India gallery, Chennai
2004 Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai
2007 A.V.Ilango arts space, Chennai
2010 faraway tree, Chennai
2014 madras square, Chennai
2015 DakshinaChitra, Chennai
2016 DakshinaChitra, Chennai
2019 Art world Sarala's art center
2022 Beyond Eight at Gallery Time and Space