Artist of the Collection · Bihar, India

Alok Bhushan

Rural memory, everyday life and the changing relationship between people and place.

Born in Kamaragama village in Munger district, Alok Bhushan draws on a rural upbringing shaped by farming and early exposure to wall paintings. His practice moves between village and city, bringing people, labour and landscape into a contemporary visual language.

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Alok Bhushan artwork in the Saraswati Foundation collection

The artist

Between village and city

Bhushan’s drawings and paintings connect intimate observation with wider questions of change, cultural memory and the natural world. Works in his practice range from pencil and ink to watercolour and acrylic.

Awards & honours

2011

First place, Bihar Day district art competition

A district-level recognition reported in the artist profile published by Mid Town Mall.

Biography

A contemporary voice from Munger

Born on 8 June 1999 in Kamaragama village, Munger district, Bihar, Bhushan grew up in a farming family. His early visual references included wall paintings in village schools and the experience of rural life.

He works across drawing and painting, including pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and acrylic. Public artist profiles describe his work as bridging rural and urban narratives and exploring the connections between humanity and nature.

His work “Harvest Guardians” is listed in a Bihar Museum catalogue for the exhibition A Triptych of Humanity, Monuments and Nature.

Biography synthesised from museum, gallery and institutional profiles.

Selected exhibitions