Artist profile · Saraswati Foundation collection
Ajay Chakradhar
A self-taught artist whose mineral-rich surfaces transform the textures of the earth into restless abstraction.
Recognition
Awards & honours
- 2006
All India Fine Art & Craft Society, New Delhi - 2006
Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Amritsar
The artist
Biography
Born in 1969 in Chakradharpur, Jharkhand, Ajay Chakradhar studied commerce and developed as a self-taught artist. After beginning his career in Delhi, he moved to Mumbai in 1999 and has practised art full time for more than 25 years.
His paintings combine paint with ground and powdered minerals, building tactile surfaces in which earthy colour, abrasion and energetic gesture meet. In 2022, he became the first Indian resident at the Alice Boner Institute in Varanasi.
Selected history
Exhibitions & residencies
Tales From the East: Embers, Echoes and Stories of Shifting Earth · Exhibit320, New Delhi
Artist residency · Alice Boner Institute, Varanasi
Canary in a Coal Mine · Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
SUKMA — I Am Still Alive · Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Saraswati Foundation
In the collection
One painting by Ajay Chakradhar is currently listed in our collection.
