Gopakumar
India
R. Gopakumar is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist from India, known for his diverse range of artistic expressions such as Digital Art, Motion Photography, Installation, Drawing, Painting, and Print. He employs art and technology as a means to address and bring attention to environmental, social, political issues prevalent in society.
He believes that art should challenge and transform the existing visual, intellectual, and aesthetic norms, continuously experimenting with new visual phenomena.
His works have been showcased at renowned institutions and events worldwide, including The Saatchi Gallery in London, Tate Britain, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India, Sofia Underground in Bulgaria, CICA Museum in South Korea, The Wrong Biennale in Spain, and many more. Notably, his motion photography has received recognition by being shortlisted for the inaugural Motion Photography Prize by the Saatchi Gallery London and Google+.
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Academic Qualification:
1990-1995 Five Year NDFA (Painting) 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.
2023/2024 The Wrong Biennale , Alicante, Spain
2021 CADAF Crypto and Digital Art Fair, Paris, France.
2021 Visual Artists Association, Art Exhibition, London, UK
2021 V-Art Digital Art Spaceship Exhibition – Ukraine
2020 Art Workshop and Exhibition 151 birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
2020 Monsoon Art Fest, Kerala, India
2020 Muse India Online Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India.
2019 3rd Art Quake Kyoto Creativity Biennale Art Quake Kyoto, Japan
2019 Objectified CICA Museum, South Korea
2016 Art Rise Savannah’s Art Festival, Savannah, Georgia
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 Saatchi Gallery London, UK. – The Motion Photography Prize Exhibition
2014 Tate Britain, UK – Source Spotlight Light Display – Texture & Collage Exhibition
2014 Critical Juncture, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India (Exhibition and Residency)
2014 Cesar Garcia (Curated Art Collection) Saatchi Art Online
2014 The Power of Art, Tune Bibliotek, Sarpsborg, Norway
2013 Colours – Peace & Solidarity Årjängs 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 Absence of freedom Digital print to Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
2010 “Nature & Nurture”, The Kinsey Institute Art Gallery, USA..
2010 2nd Anniversary Exhibit and Contest. MOCA: Museum of Computer Art, Brooklyn NY, USA.
2009 Art Exhibition, ISE Cultural Foundation NY, USA.
2000 Bahrain Museum, Manama, Bahrain
1996 Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Kerala, India
1995 Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Kerala, India
