Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar Machavarapu was born in 1981 in India. One of the empanelled artists of Abundant Art Gallery,
Kumar is an artist and a professor of art. He investigates an individual’s place in India’s urban milieu today through his large monument paintings.

One can see a complete absence of human ‘beings’ in his paintings. Even the self is absent. The only suggestion of the self is in the position he offers to the viewer where he expects them to undergo the same predicament. Though they are journeys undertaken to realize one’s own nature, they are also journeys investigating the social and public through Kumar's experiences. They are like mapping his own self through the surface of the social.

The places or monuments in Kumar's works may refer to recognizable and popular sites. But he uses them only as reference signs to bring about certain experiences. The architecture and the cityscapes can also be seen as enclosures bounding the self without allowing its social interaction. In that way they are disciplinary mechanisms in play within the picture frame. Also the dark colors and layered textures try to bring about the gloomy and layered intermingling of situations and emotions. They are shown in such a way that one always s...

Andhra University, India -PhD
on “Hand Painted popular Visual Culture of Coastal
Andhra”, 2018

Bangalore University, India- Master of Fine Arts in painting, 2007

Andhra University, India- Bachelor of Fine Arts
in Painting, 2004

Pavan Kumar's works were exhibited in the following exhibitions:
1. Beyond Boundaries II: at the cross roads, at ArtMoorHouse in London in June 2019

2. Contemporary Art Exhibition, Johnson Gallery, London.2018

3. Summer school Art Exhibition, Sackler Studio, Royal College of Art.UK.2018

4. Clifton's art prize exhibition central Hong Kong, 2012

5. “may work” art exhibition, Naimo Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2012

6. “Visual Aids “Hosted at Cheim & Read, New York, 2012
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7. “The lights constellating one‟s sky, Richmond Art Gallery Canada, 2012
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8. Drawn Together‟ Latitude 53, Siena, Italy, 2011
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