Download PDF (28 K)RIYAS KOMU
Born 1971, Kerala, India
Bachelors in Fine Arts, Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai
Masters in Fine Arts, Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai (1999)
Lives and works in Mumbai and Kerala, India.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2009 Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 Bodhi Art Gallery, Berlin
MARK HIM (Second half), Gallery 88, Kolkata
2007 MARK HIM (First half), The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 Systematic Citizen, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Faith Accompli, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2005 The Third Day, Lalit Kala Academy, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi presented by Sakshi
Gallery, Mumbai
GRASS, photography show, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Sarasu, photography show on Raja Ravi Verma Press , The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 UNCONDITIONAL, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2002 – 2003 AMBULANCE, Renaissance Art Gallery, Bangalore
Select Group Exhibitions
2008 The Ghost of Souza, inaugural show in Bowery space, Aicon Gallery, New York
2007 Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, 52nd International
Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
INDIA NOW:Contemporary Indian Art Between Continuity and Transformation,,
Provincia di Milano, Milan, Italy (through February 2008)
Kashi ten light years, Kashi Art Gallery, Mattancherry, Kochi
Frame/Grid/Room/Cell/, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
INDIA TIME,Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi, Milan, Italy
Swarovski Museum, Innsbruck, Austria
New Wave: Contemporary Indian Art, Aicon Gallery,London , UK
Grid, Bodhi Art Gallery, New Dehli
Photographs, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Other, inaugural show, Aicon Gallery, London, UK
Annual show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
2006 Bronze, sculpture show, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Art on the Beach, Made by Indians, St Tropez, Gallery Enrico Navarra, Paris
On Difference #2 (represented Korea), Wurtt. Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Maarkers, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
Red Earth And The Pouring Rain, Lanxess ABS Gallery, Baroda
Strangeness, Anant Art Gallery, Kolkatta
2005 KAAM, Aicon Gallery, New York and Palo Alto
Span, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Endless Terrain, Lalit Kala Academy, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Double Enders, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Cochin
Present Future, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Configurations, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
Are we like this only? Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Whose space is it anyway? Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Mannat Jali, Marine Drive, Mumbai
Public Art Project, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
World Social Forum, Brazil.
2004 Group show during VASL Residency, Karachi, Pakistan
Anticipations, Museum Gallery, Mumbai
Bombay Boys, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
A New Mediatic Realism, Bayer ABS Gallery, Baroda, India
Generation I, Saffron Art Gallery, Mumbai
RED, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Mumbai x 17, Kashi Art Gallery, Cochin, India
2003 Crossing Generations :Diverge, 40 years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Highlights, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2D/3D, Visual Art Center, Hong Kong
Ideas and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Art for Art/ Switzerland Meets India, Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai
2002 Ways of Resisting 1992- 2002, Sahmat/ Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Words and Images, The Guild Art Gallery/ National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery/ India Habitat Center, New Delhi
Crosscurrents, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Asian Art Festival, Singapore
Harmony Shows (2004-1999), Nehru Centre, Mumbai
Debt, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Tribute to Picasso, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 The Human Factor, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Engendering Images of women, The Guild, Mumbai
Excerpts from my diary, Fine Art Company, Mumbai
2000 Mumbai Metaphor, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
Exile Longings, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
Memos of the New Millennium- Artists from the Moulting World, Birla Academy of Art
& Culture, Mumbai
Ideas and Images (Video installation), National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1999 Critic's Choice, Ideas and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1998 'He used to believe that EMS planted coconut tree in Kerala', installation, Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai
Essays in time- kinetic sculptures (Audio-Visual Installation), Nehru Centre, Mumbai
Hebbar foundation scholarship 1998-1999