Art Centrix Space Painting Grant 2024 winner Hemant Gavankar

Hemant Gavankar is a visual-art practitioner and poet based in Mumbai. He completed his BFA in Drawing and Painting and MFA in Portraiture both from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai in 2016 and 2018 respectively. In his works, he experiments with form and colour compositions. Over the years, his practice has evolved to explore and express the artificiality of human-made spaces, which have become the reality of urban existence. His work begins with reality and transitions into simulations of alternate realities, visualising the same actions across different times and multi-dimensional spaces. Hemant addresses the absurdity resulting from the non-aligning events taking place in various private, public, and digital spaces. He received the Rangasetu Fellowship for Visual Art, Maharashtra Cultural Centre (2023). His recent exhibitions include ‘EREWHON’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2023); ‘Connceting Dots’, Abir Space (2023); ‘Unknowns 7,’ Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy, Ahmedabad (2022). ‘Monsoon Art Show’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2016) among others. 

Hemant lives and works in Mumbai.