Gallery Sumukha

Dayananda Nagaraju , Leftover , 2019 , Soft stone & concrete , 30" x 19" x 9"

Dayananda Nagaraju , Bullman , 2022 , Wood inlay , 25.5" x 19.5"

Dayananda Nagaraju , Always grass in greener on the other side , 2018 , Watercolour on paper , 15" x 24"

Dayananda Nagaraju Born in 1988, Mysore, Karnataka. Dayananda completed his Post Diploma in Painting from the College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru (2015) and his Bachelors in Visual Arts from Sri Kalanikethana School of Visual Arts, Mysuru (2011). He has held 3 solo exhibitions ‘Kanaja’ (Granary) at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bengaluru (2022); ‘Golden seed’ at Anokhi Garden, Mysuru (2019); ‘The First Harvest’ at Art Houz, Bengaluru (2016). Some of his select group shows include ‘All About Play’, DakshinaChitra Heritage Museum, Tamil Nadu (2024); Tutto Fritto Tutto Fresco, Basel, Switzerland (2021); ‘Journey II’, Art Houz, Bengaluru (2020); Space Air Earth Water Wood Metal Fire, online art show (2020); Arnawaz Vasudev Charities, online art show (2020); Trace in leaves & flowers that round me lie, Shridharani gallery, New Delhi (2019); March Group Show, Artz gallery, Mysuru (2019); ‘12 Days of Christmas’, Thompso Spare Art, United Kingdom (2018); ‘ID-Entity’, Art Pilgrim Live, Gurugram, Haryana (2018); ‘ARTPORT: GOOD FOOD INDIA’, Goethe Institut, Bengaluru (2017); ‘DOUBLE ROAD’, artistic exchange, Munich, Germany (2017); Kalasamuha’, Srishti Outpost, Fort Kochi, Kochi (2017); ‘Small and Beautiful’, Art Houz, Bengaluru (2016); Annual Exhibition, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru (2015); 56th National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (2015); 44th Annual State Exhibition, Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi, Bengaluru (2015). He has been Artist-in-Residence for Pro Helvetia, New Delhi at Studio Residency, Switzerland (2020) and has been the recipient of Food Matters Grant, Serendipity Arts Festival (2023); FICA & MMF Emerging Artist Grant (2020); Arnawaz Vasudev Charities Scholarship (2015) and Namma Mysuru, N. Ranga Rao & Sons, Mysuru (2007). He has also attended workshops on wood inlay, at Intarsia Inlay Pvt Ltd, Mysuru (2023-2020) and has attended ‘National Art Festival’, Lalit Kala Akademi & Sikkim Akademi, Gangtok (2017); Cartist Automobile Art Festival, Jaipur (2016); Arnawaz Vasudev Charities, Cholamandal Artists Village, Injambakkam, Chennai (2016); ‘States Sila Shilpakala’ Sculpture Camp, Mysuru (2010). Dayananda lives and works in Mysuru, Karnataka, India.