Amitabh Kumar
Amitabh Kumar is a designer and artist based in Bangalore. His body of work responds to the everyday and a specific charge that it carries through time. Being part of a city that has been loaded with imaginaries which speak to the human experience and history in a very pronounced way, his stories are about those tropes and the angularity that they recurrently produce.
He has graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda and has worked as a part of the Sarai Media Lab (2006-2010) where he led research, made comics, programmed events, designed books and co-curated an experimental art space. He is a visiting faculty at Srishti School of Art and Design and Technology and is an initiating member of the Delhi based comics ensemble, The Pao Collective.
Donate a wall, Asian Paints
Lucknow, 2020
Serendipity Arts Festival - Guerilla Residency
st+art india foundation x asian paints
Panjim, 2018
Amitabh along with other street artists like Miles Toland, Daku, Anpu Varkey created for the ‘Guerrilla Residency Project’ aimed at revitalizing six abandoned shops in a dilapidated area of Panjim to draw a frame around the constant battle between nature and urbanisation.
WIP: The Street Art Show
New Delhi, 2016
This site specific installation ‘Bali’ responds in equal parts to the complex geometry of the containers and the volatile context of the site. ICD Tughlaqabad borders the huge mountain of waste that is the Tughlaqabad Landfill. Although the landfill had reached full capacity years ago - it was only recently that dumping actually stopped. The landfill stands there dead and stagnating. This morbid giant is the inspiration behind the image of the headless beast - just about to collapse. Its an image that responds to sites such as the landfill that are the keepers of that which the city doesn't want to acknowledge.
Lodhi Art District
New Delhi, 2016
Through this mural the artist is referring to a story though in his imagery. In Mahabharata when the Pandava brother were exiledthey reformed a city of ruins, just like these interventions in public spaces are regenerating the city of New Delhi.
Bandra, Pali Village
Mumbai, 2014
Shahpur Jat
New Delhi, 2014
