NupurKunduspecialized in Fine Arts from the College Of Arts, New Delhi and has been exhibiting her abstract works for more than sixteen years now. She has also achieved a Masters in Indian Classical Dance from Chandigarh University. She has been featured in India Today Magazines 30th Anniversary Issue amongst 30 young successful achievers. Nupur is a recipient of the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award for Fine Arts, 2008 and the Junior Fellowship, Ministry Of Culture, Government of India, 2011 - 2013. Nupur has also worked closely with special children by conducting workshops. She has held Multi Media workshops for the British Council of India; IFFCO; Tihar Jail, New Delhi. She has also judged various Art Competitions – For the Times of India (NIE); For Hindustan Times (PACE); At the RashtrapatiBhawan for school children; YMCA; AAI (Airport Authority of India), Jindal Steel and All India Camlin Art Competition at Lucknow in 2011. The Artist works and lives in New Delhi.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2013 Recent Works at India Design Fair,New Delhi.
  • 2012 ‘Palette Scapes’at Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad.
  • 2007 ‘The Furious Purity’ at Sumukha Art Gallery, Bangalore.
  • 2006 Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi.
  • 2005‘Rhapsody in Space II’at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre by Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi.
  • 2003‘Rhapsody in Space I’ at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre by Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi.
  • 1999 Art Indus Gallery, Santushti Complex, New Delhi.

Commission Works

  • Three commission works for TAJ GVK hotel, Chandigarh in 2005, one of which is a single piece Oil on Canvas of dimensions 7ft by 22ft.
  • Jindal Steel, 2006
  • Series of 75 Oil on Canvas done for Trident Oberoi, Mumbai, 2006.
  • TajPhalaknuma Heritage Hotel, Hyderabad, 2011.

Auctions

  • 2013 - Standard Chartered by Aura Art, Mumbai; ‘Colours of Life’ by Dhoomimal and ‘The Round Table India’ at Le Meridian, New Delhi.
  • 2009 -PlanUtsav Charity Auction by Plan India, MGF New Delhi.
  • 2007 -Tehelka - The Art for Freedom Auction, London
  • 2006 - ‘India on Canvas’ by ‘Khushi’, British High Commissioners Residence, New Delhi.

Selected Group Exhibitions, National and International (1996 – 2013)

15th Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh; ‘Deep in Black’ at Gallerie Muller and Plate, Munich, Germany; Adana Biennale Turkey; “Emerging India” by Art Alive Gallery at Royal /College of Art, Henri Moore Gallery, London; 52nd and 54th National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; ‘Quad Set Go’, by TAD Arts, Visual Art Gallery; New Delhi; “Tiranga” at RashtrapatiBhawan; People for Animals by Maneka Gandhi, Taj Palace, New Delhi.

And At Galleries – IGNCA; ICCR; SKP; Alliance Francoise; Art and Aesthetic; Art Positive; DMG Mega Art Complex; Nitanjali Art; Shridharani Art GalleryArt Pilgrim; Ati Art; Arpana Fine Art; Indian Art Circle; Russian Centre of Art & Culture; Art Today Gallery; Arushi Arts; ; Polka Art Gallery; Art Sastra - at New Delhi; And - India Fine Art, Mumbai; Galerie Sara Arakkal - Bangalore; Surya Gallery - Hyderabad; Cymroza Art gallery - Mumbai; Birla Academy of Art & Culture - Kolkata ; Concern India Foundation – Bangalore; Alankritha Art Gallery, Hyderabad; Art Zest, Dubai

Art Workshops and Exchange Programs

  • 2012 –Mandu, Gwalior by Dhoomimal Gallery.
  • 2011 -Marve Annual Art Camp by RPG Group and Arts Trust, Mumbai; SAARC Artists Camp at Poovar, Kerala by ICCR and Seher.
  • 2006 - Open Skies’ by Air India & Seher at Canterbury, U.K; AIFACS and SKP , New Delhi;
  • 2004 -Hampi, Department of Tourism, Govt of India, Karnataka; Amby Valley Sahara Lake City, Maharashtra.
  • 2004 – CCMB Centre, Hyderabad by India Fine Art Mumbai
  • 2000 – 1996 - Surajkund Crafts Mela, Haryana; SKP, AIFACS, Artists for Kargil at New Delhi.

Artists Statement –

I endeavour to embody in my work the ineffable in colours. The colors are given freedom to flow, move, and dialogue with each other, share inaudibly and even invisibly the mystery of their being. They carry no thematic burden nor are pushed into the straight – jacket of meanings. They are themselves – in purity, in intense and furious purity. They are a narrative into themselves primarily - ‘Colourscapes’.

My work has always been non-representational. Representational work to me is more in the realm of skill rather than in that of intuition, spontaneity, adventure, search, mystery etc all of which greatly interest and influence me. I would not like to paint an idea but get sensitized by the painting. This has indeed had a great influence in my thinking and practice.

As a matter of fact that the rhythm and colour of Indian classical dance has influenced my work, it is not altogether surprising that I treat colour as performance. On my canvas, particularly the larger one, colours engage in furious dance. My act in fact ‘very performance – oriented’. It is like dancing from one color to another. It is a pure dance creating significant patterns of movement and rhythm covering space without overshadowing it. The space gets painted, in fact, sometimes over-painted.

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