About

Tamrakar’s practice largely revolves around memory associations and history of a place, that draws or opens up itself through mark making and stories of yesterdays. His practice and mediums range across sculpture, drawings, Photographs, Videos installation and digital manipulations through Virtual and Augmented Reality. His solo show Unfastened Association, was supported by SCZCC, Nagpur, at Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda 2016.

Awdhesh Tamrakar was born in Shahgarh (A small town in between Khajuraho and Sanchi) Madhya Pradesh in 1989. He completed his Bachelors and Masters in Sculpture from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University Baroda, in 2013 and 2015 respectively.

Tamrakar holds a Gold Medal from the Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda 2015, Chinmoy Pramanik Memorial Award, Faculty of Fine art, Baroda 2015, Emerging Master Award, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda 2014.

Some of his recent group shows and projects include, Thinking matters, curated by Mario Dsouza, Space Studio Baroda, 2020; Heads in the cloud, Five Million Incidents, conceived in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective and organized by Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhawan New Delhi and Kolkata, 2020; Art and Science Dialogue, Collaboration project with TIFR Hyderabad, 2018; Madhyama curated by Akhilesh, Raza Foundation, Delhi, 2018; ID-ENTITY Curated by Zero Gravity Collective, New Delhi, 2018; Displaced Places, Utsha Foundation, Bhubaneswar, Oddisa 2017.

Tamrakar has been teaching as a Guest Faculty in the Department of Fine Arts, S.N.School of Arts and Communication, Central University, Hyderabad since 2018.

Awdhesh lives and works between Hyderabad and Baroda.

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EDUCATION 

2015                     M.V.A.- Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat 

2013                      B.V.A. – Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat

WORK / ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2018-ongoing      Guest Assistant Professor at Department of Fine Arts, S. N. School of arts and communication, Hyderabad Central University,  Hyderabad, Telangana

AWARDS

2016                     Gold Medal, Sculpture department, Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University, Baroda 

2015                     Chinmoy Pramanik Memorial Award, for best Display in Sculpture, Faculty of Fine art, Baroda

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016                     Unfastened Association solo show at Faculty of Fine arts, Baroda

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020                     Thinking Matter curated by Mario D’Souza, Space Studio, Art District, Baroda

2020                     Asthabhuji Curated by Annapurna M, Gallery 78, Hyderabad

2019                     Words of silence curated by Akhilesh Verma, Tao art gallery, Mumbai. 

2018                     Madhyama curated by Akhilesh, Raza Foundation, Delhi.

2018                     ID-ENTITY Curated by  Zero Gravity Collective, New Delhi.

2016                     Emerging Palettes, Shrishti Art gallery, Hyderabad, Telangana.

2015                     Statuettes & Trinkets, Hub 8, Faculty of fine arts, M.S.U. Baroda, Gujarat.

RESIDENCIES AND PROJECTS

2020                     Heads in the Cloud, Five Million Incidents, Goethe-Institut and Raqs Media Collective, Delhi and Kolkata.

2017                     Displaced places, Utsha Foundation, Bhubaneswar, Odisa

2018                     Art and Science Dialogue, Collaboration project between TIFR and Department of Fine Arts, S. N. School of Arts and Communication, University of                               Hyderabad .

WORKSHOPS / TALK / CAMPS

2021                     Drawing camp on 39th Anniversary of Bharat Bhawan,  Bhopal 

2017                     scrape metal sculpture Camp, VMC, Baroda, Gujarat, India

2017                     Sprit of Baroda, metal sculpture camp, VMC, Baroda, Gujarat, India

2016                     National Stone Carving Camp, Sczcc and Wcz, Shilpgram, Udaipur, Rajasthan

2013                     Dandi Marchers’ Sculptures Workshop I at IIT Mumbai

2013                     Alternative Photography workshop, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. Baroda 

2013                     Sound Art workshop at Faculty of Fine arts, M.S.U. Baroda

2009                     Video Art Workshop, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. Baroda