Shailesh B.R. Indian, b. 1986
Biography
Born in 1986 in Karnataka, Shailesh B.R. received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, specialising in painting, from the Chamarajendran Academy of Visual Arts, Mysore, and has a post-graduate diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda.
Shailesh’s solo exhibitions include The Last Brahmin at the prestigious Villa Arson in Nice, France (2020); virtual shows titled Shooting Stars (2022) and Notes to Self (2020), as well as Displacement (2021) at Delhi Contemporary Art Week and Tarka(2017) at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. His work was exhibited at Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, in a group curation titled Magical Hackerism, or the Elasticity of Resilience. He has also participated in other prominent group shows, including Colomboscope, Sri Lanka, and Abu Dhabi edition (2022); Hub India, Turin, Italy (2021); Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2021, 2019, 2018); Birla Academy of Arts & Culture, Kolkata (2021); Busan Video Art Festival, South Korea (2021); BIG Biennale, Geneva (2019); Shrine Empire, New Delhi (2018); Sensorium, Sunaparanta, Goa (2018); Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai (2017); Students Biennale, Kochi–MuzirisBiennale (2015); the Center for International Modern Art, Kolkata (2014); and Gallery Espace, New Delhi (2014), among others.
In 2023, Shailesh was a resident at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. In 2021, he was a finalist for the Sovereign Art Prize and exhibited his work at the finalists’ exhibition Hong Kong. He was awarded the FICA Emerging Artist Award in 2016 and the Inlaks Fine Arts Award in 2014. He has completed residencies at Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea (2022); Villa Arson, Nice, France (2020); the Embassy of Foreign Artists Residency, Geneva, Switzerland (2019); and Atelier Mondial / Pro Helvetia – Swiss Art Council, Basel, Switzerland (2016), among other national residencies.
The artist lives and works in New Delhi, India.
Works
Exhibitions
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The Patience of Ordinary Things
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 29 August - 23 September 2023The Patience of Ordinary Things It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor...Read more -
A Handful of Dust
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 19 May - 18 June 2022Exhibiting Artists: Jagannath Panda, K.M. Madhusudhanan, N.S. Harsha, Sudhir Patwardhan, Praneet Soi, Gigi Scaria, Sujith S.N., Susanta Mandal, Pranati Panda, Sachin George Sebastian, Shailesh B.R., Biraaj Dodiya, Shrimanti Saha, Priyanka...Read more -
The (Pro)found Object
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 25 August - 24 September 2021The (Pro)found Object celebrates an artist’s reverent curiosity for curios through the recent works and practices of four exciting contemporary artists. These artists engage with a speckled roster of found...Read more -
Cloud Burst | Delhi Contemporary Art Week
Bikaner House, New Delhi 8 - 15 April 2021Our curation titled Cloud Burst features a diverse set of expressions around the general human condition and undertakings, articulated either through more intimate mental and bodily experiences as with Pranati...Read more -
Shailesh B.R. | Notes To Self
Fresh by VAG 12 May - 21 July 2020Notes to Self is an online exhibition of selected works from Shailesh B.R.. This exhibition is part of our digital endeavour –VAG FRESH–a series of online exhibitions hosted on ourwebsite,...Read more -
Shailesh B.R. | Tarka
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 13 July - 12 August 2017Read more
Art Fairs
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Frieze Seoul
COEX Exhibition Centre, Seoul 6 - 9 September 2023The most urgent and topical discourses of our times seem to stake claim on trends of rupture. In the melting pot that is the contemporary...Read more -
INDIA ART FAIR 2023
NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla, New Delhi 9 - 12 February 2023With a diverse roster of artists across conditioning, intention, practice and cultural attitudes – including A. Ramachandran, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi, Biraaj Dodiya,...Read more -
THE ARMORY SHOW
THE LIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON 8 - 11 September 2022In the Hero’s Journey, Joseph Campbell contends that a hero – “someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself” –...Read more -
India Art Fair 2020
30 January - 2 February 2020Read more
Bulletin
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Shailesh B.R.'s show pays tribute to David Hockney, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Henri Matisse
By Shaikh Ayaz | Architectural Digest India 13 February 2022'My main practice consists of kinetic art and machine sculptures that question the idea of common rituals and customs and what makes devotees perform them...Read more -
Viewing objects in a new light with The (Pro)found Object, at Vadehra Art Gallery
The New Indian Express 6 September 2021Artists Biraaj Dodiya, Shailesh BR, Youdhisthir Maharjan and Moonis Ahmad Shah have come together for a group show titled The (Pro)found Object, at Vadehra Art...Read more -
4 Indian artists recontextualize everyday items at Vadehra Art Gallery’s latest exhibition
By Nicole Newby | Architectural Digest India 4 September 2021A discarded bed frame, clock dial, bicycle chain, pages of old books, and other sundry, everyday objects find new contexts in The (Pro)found Object, an...Read more -
Why Goa’s Sensorium should be on every art lovers calendar
By Shahnaz Sigaporia | Vogue India 24 January 2018 Read more -
A travel back in time
By Monica Arora | The Tribune 20 August 2017Shailesh BR’s work is perhaps the most unconventional and unexpected that you may have seen amongst contemporary artists in the recent times, and that is...Read more -
Young Guns Shine
By Poonam Goel | The New Indian Express 1 July 2015Getting a platform to showcase your art right after you step out of college is every young artist's dream. Khoj International Artists’ Association provides just...Read more
