KP Pradeepkumar

‘My  artistic research preoccupied in an evidence references to ecology after nature within human–animal relationships in an autobiographical standpoint by means of drawing and paintings, everyday sketches, photographs moving images offered in flexible ways of implementation in mixed media, two-dimensional work of drawing  and works on paper will be the principal means of artistic approach regarding the interrelationship between humans and nature is the speculation triggering the subject matter. 

The works essentially observes natural forms and organic movements to perceive the spiritual transformation of the eternal living organism, flora-fauna, forms and formations, earth movements, water flows and current, soil erosions and eruptions, people and manners of varied circumstances etc. This exposes multiple layers of interconnection between the natural and the human-made in the context of every socio-political-environmental contemporary predicament.’ 

KP Pradeepkumar (b. 1970, Kozhikode, Kerala) is an independent visual artist who has been working between Kochi and Delhi for the past several years. He completed his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Sculpture from College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in 1993 and Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Practice at the TransArt Institute, New York in 2015. He has been working and exhibiting in and out of the country and has received many awards for his artistic pursuits. His recent group exhibitions include namely ‘BRINK’ (2022); ‘The Present & the Absentee Maker’ (2020); ‘Con Tempus|With Time’ (2019); ‘Arikamedu’ (2018) and ‘Nature | Deliberated’ in April (2018) at Art Centrix Space, New Delhi; India Art Fair with Art Centrix Space, New Delhi (2023, 2020 and 2019); ‘Whose Memoir? Whose Archive? An Empirical Survey’, Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (2023); ‘Gods own country’, Apparao Galleries, Chennai (2022); ‘Lokame Tharavadu’ curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Alappuxha, Kerala (2021) among others. He has also had several solo shows at various galleries like ‘Improbable Suburban’ at Gallery OED, Kochi, Kerala (2018); ‘Wood of Suicides’, BC Gallery, Kochi, Kerala (2016), ‘Transfiguration’, David Hall, Fort Kochi, Kerala (2011) among others.