Bhuwal Prasad

Bhuwal Prasad is an artist from Azamgarh from the district of Uttar Pradesh who is currently based in the National Capital Region of India. Trained in Visual Arts from the College of Art in Delhi, Bhuwal’s practice holds broken lines and bold colours at the center of the pictorial surface. Devising a unique form of abstraction that takes cues from his study of indigenous art forms and readings of the Indus Valley civilization, Indian prehistoric rock art, Mesopotamian scrolls and Egyptian art, the scattered figures that appear in his otherwise abstract works reference the evolution of culture. His approach to painting is guided by instincts, which are not mediated by intellect but driven by the pleasure emanating from his thoughts. While employing a multitude of materials like acrylic and oil paints, charcoal, ink, and automotive paint along with fibreglass and MDF, Bhuwal reflects on mediums to create an assimilation of stories of shared histories. 

Over the past 15 years, Bhuwal’s works have been showcased at a variety of group and solo exhibitions around India some which of include Solitude in my Cacophony a solo solo exhibition curated by Rahul Kumar and supported by Sangita Rajani and Kalyani Chawla at TAQ, New Delhi, 2024; Between the Line a solo exhibition at Eikowa Art Gallery and LDH in Hyderabad, 2023; Melting Metamorphosis at Dhoomimal Art Centre, New Delhi, 2019; group exhibitions Spectrum of Spring at AWG Gallerie New Delhi in 2024; Soliloquy and The wonder of it at Gallery Nvya, New Delhi, 2023; and Gajanana at Gallery Nvya, New Delhi held in 2022. And in 2018, Bhuwal was awarded the Junior Fellowship by the Ministry of Culture Government of India.

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