Young & talented Masuram Ravikanth is a native of Jangaon in Andhra Pradesh. Born in 1980, he began collecting awards for his art from the tender age of 7. Between 1987 and 1996, the artist had 21 awards accredited to his name, winning time and again at National child art competitions.
He received his BFA in painting from the MMK College of Visual Art in Gulbarga (1996-2001) & his MFA in painting from the Hyderabad Central University (2002-2004). In 2001, the artist received a scholarship from the Lalit Kala Academy in Bangalore and in the same year was awarded by the Hyderabad Art Society. He has also received scholarships from the National scholarship, HRD, Govt of India from 2003 to 2005.
Masuram has participated in numerous art camps, workshops and group shows and also has several solo shows to his credit. Having shown his works for the most part in Hyderabad so far, Studio Napean is proud to bring his works to Mumbai for the first time.
The artist seeks inspiration from the archives of paintings, sculptures and artifacts. He extracts particular objects from these archives and places them on his canvas in a traditional, yet very contemporary setting. He weaves the past with the present by superimposing more modernized objects over this background. He hence creates a kind of museum of his own fancy, infusing humor into his creation he cronicles history in his own fashion.
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