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Bhavani GS is a multi-disciplinary artist from Kodagu, currently based out of Bengaluru. Trained as a painter, she also works with moving images, photography and site-specific land art. Besides showing her ecologically conscious works in galleries and festivals, she also does Interactive works in public spaces to raise awareness for the natural environment. Among her long-term projects, she has sustained an artistic engagement with the River Cauvery and her tributaries since 2009.

She has been to several residencies in India, Germany, Lithuania, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, New Zealand and is the recipient of selected grants and awards.

Short CV

Qualification.- MFA from Chithrakala Parishat Bengaluru, Karnataka . 2003. BFA 2000 from Ravindra kalanikethana, Tumkur.

Solo shows. – 2022 – Fragmented memories, Jahangir Art Gallery , Mumbai, State Gallery of Art,

Hyderabad. 2018 – Balta Art gallery, Kaunas. 2013-Journey with the River Cauvery, Suchitra Art

Gallery, Rangayana, Mysore. Art & Soul Gallery, Chenni. Forms River Earth- Dakshin Chitra, Chennai.

Talgariene Art Gallery, Bengaluru.. 2012- Journey with the River Cauvery part-2(Videos

/photographs) Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bengaluru, Subrang Art Gallery , Mysore. 2011- HabitArt

Gallery/Residency, “The Self In Nature”, Bangalore. 2008- Whisphers of The Woods”.Vietnam Fine

arts Association, Hanoi, Vietnam. 2004- “At The Crossroads” Chitra kala Parishat Bengaluru. 2002-

“Textures from Life and Nature” M.G. center, Auckland, New Zealand. 2000- “Nostalgia” Chitra kala Parishat Bengaluru.

Residencies and Grants-

2022- Residency in Munich supported by Goethe -Intuit & City of Munich. 2018- Residency in

Kaunas- and Klaipeda & show at Balta Gallery and Baroti Gallery supported by Lalitkala Academy

New Delhi & International Plein Air Klaipedo. 2017-Residency in Munich, supported by Double

Road, Free State of Bavaria, Munich. Our Body & Hands in Water, Jaipur Kala Chaupal, Jaiur. 2016-

‘Sipna river Walk Residency” Nagpur. 2011- Residency in Theertha, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2013&’16-

Grant Kannada & Culture Dept. Karnataka. 2009-Robert Bosch grant and a residency in 1ShanthiRoad, Bangalore. 2006-8- Junior Fellowship from Culture Dept. New Delhi. 2006-5- lalith

Kala Academy Scholarship for 2005-06 New Delhi. 2005-4- Arnawaz Vasudev Scholarship.

Group exhibition

2023- Kala for Vidya, Taj west End, MKF Museum, Bengaluru. 2022 – Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka,

Bangladesh, 6th KloHäuschen Biennale (KHBiSix)Munich. “Water in Images”, Water festival at Dakshina Chitra, Chennai.

2021- Group show at Lalitkala Academy, New Delhi. “Inception”, Gallery NIV, New Delhi by Foundation Of Visual Art & Culture. Group show @ Gallery Time & Space. “Drawing the line” @ CKP, Bangalore. 2020- In Isolation, Arnavaz Vasudev Charities, Virtual Show. Kala For Vidya, Taj

West End, I Raise Edition V, Art Houz, Bangalore, 2019- “Zagare Fringe Festival”, Lithuania, “Celebrating Mother Tongue in the light of Art”, “Kaurnaphuli Folk Festival”, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

2019- Kannada Sahithya Samelana, Art camp & exhibition, Dharwad. Madurai Film Festival, Madurai, I Raise Edition IV Art Houz Bangalore, Celebrating Mother Tongue in the light of Art,

Dhaka, Kaurnaphuli Folk Festival, Chittagong, Bangladesh. 2018- International Symposium Klaipeda, Lithuania. Hyderabad Literary festival, Hyderabad. ARTSIC Fest 2018, Phonix Marketcity,Bangalore,Round and Around, Tasmai Pondy Gallery, Pondicherry, Video Installations, Arthouz Gallery Bangalore. 2017- Mapping frontiers- Krishnakriti art Festival, Hyderabad. Water+Wisdom Australia

India, Melbourne. Maximilian Forum, Munich. LIFETIDE festival @ Shoonya-Center for Art and somatic Practices. Monsoon show supported by Hastakshar Goa. JKK Gallery, Jaipur, Rituals of Birth and Death, 0821 Gallery, Mysore. ART camp by LKA New Delhi ,2016-“Healing Nature and Restoring Balances” @ Time & space Gallery, “Morphology of Archives- Connected Histories of Goa”curate by Lina Vincent and Sabitha TP MOG , Goa. “I Rise” group show @ Art Houz gallery, Bangalore.

2015- “Harvest of Talents”, Group show by K K Hebbar Art Foundation- Vismaya art gallery Rangoli

Metro, Bengaluru.

Participated in many more group shows, camps, and public projects since 2000.

Visual artist from Reunion Island, a French department located in the Indian Ocean. Graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts du Port and the School of Decorative Arts in Limoges.Issue of a mixed race, she seeks to harmonize differences through her works. Inspired by the genealogy of each, for a better living together. She sails between epochs and civilizations. She represents in her creations ‘the absence of the present’ which are underlined by existing multi ethnic symbols or from her imagination as well as figurative or abstract forms. Natural colors often used in dusty way testify a lived, the time, the earth, the universe. Each motif is an echo of a civilization. His artistic expression stems from the practice of a ritual that connects the artist to the invisible world, physical, heaven and earth. In his artistic productions, dusty and colorful particles gather on his various supports. This is the creation of the world. Born of ‘dust, you will return dust’ ….His painting evokes those things that exist in every being; energy, rhythm, movement, emotions. Pictorial elements, sometimes abstract, figurative suggested, such as symbols appear and disappear in a mystical and emotional universe. Testimony of an experience, an emotion, a story, an absence.

1987 Born in Uzbekistan, in the city of Samarkand, in a traditional Uzbek-Tajik family.

2005 Studied at the school of P.P. Benkov. (Renamed to Kh.Kh Abdurasulov College.)

2009 Personal exhibition at the Chorsu Museum in Samarkand

2010 Accepted as a member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

2010 Personal exhibition at the Chorsu Museum in Samarkand.

2005 Moved to Moscow.

2013 Participated in international exhibitions in Portugal, Coimbra, Tehran, in the St.

Petersburg Art Week received 1st place in the competition.

2013 Moved to Anapa.

2014 took part in a parallel exhibition at the Venice Biennale “New faces in art” won 2nd place

in the competition.

2017 Studied at the Rafael Academy pupil of Vladislav Nessynov

2019 Moved to Moscow.

2022 Studied at the Baza Institute of Contemporary Art pupil of Anatoly Osmolovsky.

2020-2022 Participant of group exhibitions and performances at MMOMA, Winzavod, Solyanka

Gallery, Zverevsky Center of Contemporary Art.

2022 Participant of Tashkent international IX Biennale. Uzbekistan

2023 Resident of 9 season of Open Studios

Education:

2022 Institute of Contemporary Art “Base”

2017 Academy “Raphael” Krasnodar Territory.

2010 Institute of Economics and Law. Jurisprudence. Moscow.

2005 College of Arts named after H.H. Abdurasulov. Samarkand.

Exhibitions:

2023 “Tales” Center of contemporary art “Fabrica”

2023 “No one is no island”

2022. “Retention of funds” Center for Contemporary Art “Zverevsky”

2022. Win Win. The winery.

2022. Installation. Performance “Flowers” MMOMA.

2021. Performance “Cake2” MMOMA.

2021. Performance “Sharing the sensuous” MMOMA

2021. “Final show” Vintage hall. The winery.

2021. Performance “Bride” VinzavodOpen. Moscow.

2021. Performance “Cake” VinzavodOpen. Moscow.

2021. “My new lover” Artspace. Moscow.

2020. “Microbiennale” Moscow.

2020. “DoBazy” Art cluster Factory. Moscow.

2019. “Exhibition at Solyanka” Moscow.

2019. “Parallels of Perception” MHL Rax Museum

2019. “Together” Moscow.

2018. “The Country of Fanayudiya” Anapa.

2018. “Smile of the Gioconda” Turkish Consulate in Turkey.

2017. “Russian Symphony” Turkish Consulate in Novorossiysk.

2017. “Open air Utrisha ” Anapa.

2014. “Exhibition in memory of Tolstoy” Tehran.

2014. “Identification, I we they” Moscow.

2013. “Russian Art Week ” 1st place in the competition. Moscow.

2013. “Art Week in St. Petersburg” 2nd place in the competition.

2013. “New faces in Art” Parallel exhibition at the Venice Biennale. 2nd place in the competition.

2013. “Exhibition in Portugal” Coimbra.

2010. Personal exhibition. Samarkand.

2008. “Student and Teacher” Samarkand.

2008. “Navruz Holiday” Samarkand.

2009. “Philosophy of color” Solo exhibition. Samarkand

Shaw is a self-taught artist. He was born in Tajikistan of Central Asia. He was a very successful businessman during 1980’s in Tajikistan. On early 1990s he decided to venture into USA, to look for greener turf. Through sheer hard work and never say die attitude, he achieved huge success in many areas and raised a good family in this land of opportunity. He loves art and at the age of 52 after he settled most of his commitments, he picked up the brushes again and started painting on canvas. He also made frequent visits to his birthplace Tajikistan and keep close contact with his relatives and friends there. One of them was Farrukh Negmatzade, a renowned Tajikistan artist and a close childhood friend. Farrukh encouraged him and occasionally mentored him.  Shaw is currently producing more than 30 artworks for his new art project, a solo exhibition in Tajikistan in year 2024.

Shaw has exhibited his works in Turkey. USA and Tajikistan. In year 2021 he collaborated with artists from Singapore & Turkey, painted large mural painting at one of the buildings in Antalya Turkey.

Artist’s Statement

“Stay happy, creative and productive. Art is beautiful hence live with it as it will surely provides a memorable and fruitful journey”

Suhaimi Fadzir is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is motivated by his non-traditional research-based practice driven by observing our history, culture, nature, context, and the intersections between science, art and architecture.

He studied art and architecture at Washington University, St. Louis, USA. He has won many art and architecture awards and grants and has exhibited worldwide, including the Venice Biennale (Architecture), Venice, Italy in 2010, 2012 & 2014, Meiji University Museum, Tokyo, Japan in 2011, the Dublin Biennial, where he won the Dublin Biennial Award of Excellence, Dublin, Ireland, in 2012, Art Basel Miami Week, and a
solo show organized by Saatchi Gallery London and M&C Saatchi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in
2013.

His art practice has displayed a consistent sculptural quality, and his hybrid term “Archipainting” has been used in reference to his artworks, a concept that he developed in the 1980s which, blends fine art with structural intricacies and special deconstruction of architecture. History, collective memory, personal experience, and environment are elements he woven into a non-linear story where distinctions between present, past, fiction, imagination, and reality are nullified. These overlapping points of reference run throughout all his works and his paintings resist easy interpretation but rather suggest alternative possibilities of seeing. The interaction with the landscape around him is also reflected in his work, which comments astutely on the nature of contemporary society.

Skills Summary

Interesting in visuals arts since primary school.

Had attended several Art Education courses while working as a teacher.

Studied informally with several artists at Sabah.

Practicing landscape,portrait,abstract paintings using oil paints and acrylics.

Education

Bachelor of Islamic Studies With Honest (Syariah)from University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)

Experience

Members Angkatan Pelukis Kedah since 2020

RENTAS Exhibition 2022 Kuala Lumpur

Name of Employer

Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia

Intan Shuhada Binti Azmi (Intan Azmi) is a self-taught painter born in Alor Setar, Kedah. She aspired to become a painter since her school days. Despite holding a degree in Landscape Architecture from UiTM, her deep passion for visual arts and fine arts continued to drive her career choices.

Her journey led her to join the Kedah Artists’ Group, providing her with opportunities to share her work with the public. Her official debut with the group was at the Highway Talk Exhibition, hosted at the Kedah State Museum in 2016.

With her unique style encompassing both realism and abstract art, Intan Azmi is actively seeking opportunities to establish herself as a successful painter.

Throughout her entire life, she has been deeply immersed in various forms of art, particularly drawing, painting, and photography, although she has never received formal art training. During her formative years, she actively participated in and represented her school in art activities and competitions. At the same time, she joined the Kedah Art Association and was immediately appointed as Assistant Secretary. However, in 2018, due to debilitating health issues, she had to step away from formal employment. She began to embrace art as a form of healing therapy, primarily through sketches and colors.

The birth of her first grandson, who is autistic, opened up a unique opportunity for her to communicate and bond through painting and colors. She intends to bridge the gap between different communities in Malaysia, both able-bodied and those with disabilities, using her experience and knowledge in art teaching, art therapy, and her role as a grandparent to a particular child.

Luq Zaidismail (b. 1971), a self-taught art-maker with skills build up from years of trials and hands-on experiences. Though his artistic talent was discovered in his primary school years, Luq Zaidismail started to engage seriously in the art field in 2004.

During his initial years in the world of visual arts, Luq Zaidismail experimented with watercolour. Later on, he took a bold move towards acrylic and oil paint. As a result, he is drawing more attention and fans clamour to own his art pieces, producing visuals that are vivid and eye-popping, receiving overwhelmingly positive responses from patrons and collectors of Malaysian art.

In 2018, in conjunction with the installation ceremony of the 29th Sultan of Kedah, Luq Zaidismail was honoured with the once-in-a-lifetime commission; to beautify Melur Palace walls and columns, Anak Bukit, the official royal palace and residence, with a series of mural.

Luq Zaidismail has participated in numerous local dan international group shows and actively tutors art newbies ranging from 4 years old to 60 years old. From the painting tutorials, emerge several new talents who have joined art exhibitions and competitions, nationally and internationally. As a realist artist, Luq Zaidismail loves depicting traditional culture and heritage. He reiterates that life is a blend of life and culture, and it is his cause to immortalises the folk culture scenes in all the visual artworks he produces

He started as an ordinary teacher. Was the Principal Trainer of the Arts Education Department of EducationPenang and once taught primary school art education. Didn’t get an education specialized in the field of visual arts. Drawing has been just a hobby since school and only seriously as a painter since becoming a member of the Kedah Painter’s Association ( Angkatan Pelukis Kedah). Retired from 36 years of service with the Ministry of Education Malaysia and many engage with digital visual arts such as graphic and multimedia work. Currently as Vice Yang DiPertua 1 of the Angkatan Pelukis Kedah  (2022/2024)

“Visual art is subjective and universal. Everyone is able to produce works according to their ability, ability and creativity. We produce visual works according to glasses and the meaning of self-reliance Then it is not the same as the views and interpretations of others.”