MOHIT MAHATO
Born in 1993, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
Mohit completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts in Painting, at the College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru (2018).
He has been part of ‘Seattle Art Fair’, Gallery Sumukha, Seattle, USA (2022); ‘Threshold’, a travelling print portfolio curated by Nicholas Ruth, Bach art gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (2022), Studio Pannadwar, Naigaon, Maharashtra (2022), Gallery Sumukha, Bengaluru (2022), HD Atelier de gravure Hede, Brussels, Belgium (2022), Mirabo, Press, New York, USA (2022) & The Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2022) See Street Gallery, Meadow Bank, Australia (2022); Arts council, Baton Rouge, LA, USA (2022); ’Living A Dark Night’, curated by Paula Sengupta, Gallery Espace, New Delhi (2022); The Flying Goat Show at Flying Goat, Goa, (2022); ’The Wrong Biennial 2021- 2022', curated by Tasneem Lohani, 1Shanthiroad, Bengaluru (2022); Arebyte Gallery Plug-in Exhibition, Arebyte Gallery, London x The Wrong Biennale Embassy, Online, (2021); ‘The Drawing Show-l’ at Gallery Sumukha, Bengaluru (2021); Annual Art Exhibition, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath (2018); Echoes of Earth Music Festival from (2016 – 2018).
He was also invited to the ‘Fumetto’, International Comics Festival by Pro-Helvetia at Lucerne, Switzerland (2019).
Mohit is also the co-founder of ‘Pagal Canvas’ (2017) an independent visual publication house, which produces Art books, Comics and other print cultures, He has also set up an independent Print studio “Pagal Canvas Backyard” in Bengaluru for his practice and also for other Printmakers (2020-21)
He lives and works in Bengaluru.