Born in 1991 in Indore city, central India. A visual artist with a centralized vision for his work along with sensitivity about contemporary world around him, never bounded himself in a certain medium of working. He studied painting from Government College of Fine Arts, Indore. He left studies in 3rd year (2012) because of some very personal reason. He continued with own outdoor and indoor drawing practices.
Began with painting series “Eye-A medium” in 2011, Invisible movements of eyes between people are more effective than the visible movements. He painted those invisible movements. He lived in isolation in 2013 to concentrate on his works. In 2014 he worked on a sub – series ‘’Women and Eyes’’. He interpreted women as a guardian of eyes. To keep our observation alive as a human, it is very necessary to observe the moods of a lady; beauty, happiness or anger or any kind of emotions of a woman. All these things make our eye highly observational. That’s why I depicted women as a caretaker of eyes. As a guardian of eyes.
From 2014 to 2018 he worked in many commission projects. He worked in international artist management team in ‘’Khajuraho dance and art festival’’ from 2015 to 2017. In 2018 he also worked in a renovation project of ‘’ Maurya Museum ‘’ at Bihar regimental center of Indian army in Patna. In this project he worked as a designer, artistic painter, sculptor, according to necessity of the project for a year.
In 2018 “Grey; as little as possible” a series of drawings with brush and black. Grey has its importance and must become immaterial after a period; in the context of both palette and life. He felt that to reach the apex of deepest black and brightest white, he should use grey tones as little as much possible. From 2012 started exhibiting works and got recognition in 2016 & 2017 through selections in reputed national exhibitions like Sczcc & Art Society of India. From 2018 to 2020 he worked for his state based NGO called ‘’Praroha cultural society’’ as a cofounder and secretary. From 2020 he started to work with diverse media like sculpture, installation, video and experimentation to get an innovative visual appeal for his subjects and research.
He got his first international publication of works from the current multidimensional project ‘’Mutation’’, in “The social art award 2021” catalogue published by Institute for art & innovation, Berlin. From 2020 He is solely concentrating on his diverse media based artistic research project “Mutation”.
HARSHIT JOSHI – C.V. Visual Artist – Born – 25/11/1991
Education
01/08/2009 – 20/09/2012
Dropout – Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) Government Institute of Fine Arts, Indore, M.P. (India).
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
. Grey; as little as possible, galeriedeslang, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2019
. Once upon a time, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
2017
. Art Mart International, khajuraho dance festival, Khajuraho
. Pondicherry Art Academy Annual Exhibition, Chennai
. Art Society of India, National Exhibition, Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
. Safar, Canarys National Art Foundation Gallery, Indore
2016
. SCZCC National Exhibition, State Art Gallery, Hyderabad
. Art Mart International, khajuraho dance festival, Khajuraho
. Collective exhibit, Surya Art Gallery, Saputara
. Symphony, Pritamlal Dua Gallery, Indore
2015
. Blood Moon, Devlalikar Gallery, Indore
. Contraste, Alliance Française, Bhopal
. Roop Rekha Exhibition Central Museum, Indore
. Art Mart International, khajuraho dance festival, Khajuraho
2014
. Prakatan, Devlalikar Gallery, Indore
. Symphony, Devlalikar Gallery, Indore
Selected Workshops and Art Camps
2017
. Cartist Art Festival, Jaipur
2016
. Akhand Chitrakala Abhiyan, Kankavli, Maharashtra
. National Monsoon Art Camp, Saputara, Gujarat
2014 & 2012
. Prakatan painting camp, Indore
15/11/2019 – ongoing – Personal diverse media based artistic research project “Mutation” From 2020 I am solely concentrating on his diverse media based artistic research project “Mutation”. Developing theories and artworks on the processes of mutations and their endless dimensions.
10/06/2018 -15/06/2020 Cofounder and secretary at
“Praroha cultural society”
From 2018 to 2020 I worked for our state based NGO called ‘’Praroha cultural society’ ’as a secretary. I cofounded this organization with one of my colleague and we were working very progressively with ”Government institute of fine arts Indore”, as we started a series of conversations called “Chitra parichay” in between students and visual artists from our state, these session were about works of invited artist at the college for a presentation in every 50 days. We also started a series of open discourse out of the institute called “Praroha informal”, we started the series of solo presentation and exhibition on yearly bases called “Praroha singular”. Unfortunately because of global pandemic in 2020 our all funding and supportive structure were demolished, so we ended it.
15/07/2017 – 28/02/2018 Commissioned Artist
Bihar Regimental Centre, Patna (India)
Creation of Artworks during Army Museum Restoration.
In 2017 I worked in a renovation project of ‘’ Maurya Museum ‘’ at Bihar regimental centre of Indian army in Patna. In this project I worked as a designer, artistic painter, sculptor, according to necessity of the project. I customized and designed many murals and other works under the coordinator of the project. I did restoration also during the project.
20/02/2015 – 28/02/2017 Artist Management
At Art Mart International for 2015, 2016, 2017 during Khajuraho visual art and dance Festival, Khajuraho, India. I worked in an international artist management team in ‘’Khajuraho dance and visual art festival’’ from 2015 to 2017 (each year). I managed schedule of 30 visual artists from 15 different countries in the festival for 12 days. I worked in exhibition display management also, during the festival.
Artworks in private collections:
India, France, Greece, Netherlands.
Personal information:
Name – Harshit joshi
Address – M-47, Khatiwala Tank Street, Indore city, Madhya Pradesh state, INDIA.
Pin code – 452014
Mobile no. – +91 7879245121
Email: haarshitjoshi@gmail.com
Website: https://harsheetjoshi.com/
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