Abhishek Hazra | Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Abhishek Hazra

Area of Practice	Visual Artist
Education	Masters in Art & Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London
Work Experience	Exhibited widely over the last 15 years across various contexts such as Reykjavik Art Museum and the Serpentine Gallery, London, Science Gallery, Dublin, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bose-Pacia, New York, MAXXI Museum, Rome, ifa Gallery, Berlin Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, Delhi, Gallery SKE, Bangalore, Experimenter, Kolkata Artist residencies in various prominent institutions including Gasworks, London, Art Omi, New York and SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Perth His work has been supported by Charles-Wallace India Trust, India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore, KHOJ International Artists' Association, Pro Helvetia and FICA, New Delhi He has also been the recipient of multiple awards, including the prestigious 2011 Sanskriti Award for Visual Art
Interest Areas	Contemporary art practices (conceptual art, text & art, performative practices), critical theory, history of ideas, visual culture
Current Practice at Srishti	Foundation Studies (Form & Structure, Body & Context etc.), Exploring Critical Theory through studio-based art practice
Creative Practice and Outreach	Solo Exhibition \| Between Repetition & Reticence \| Experimenter, Kolkata \| 2020 Group Exhibition \| In Open or in Stealth. The Unruly Presence of an Intimate Future curated by Raqs Media Collective at a contemporary art museum in Barcelona - MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) \| 2018 Group Exhibition \| 3rd Kochi Muziris Biennale, Forming in the pupil of an eye, curated by Sudarshan Shetty \| 2016-2017
Recent Units facilitated	Workshop on Analyzing Disinformation & Fake News

Projects showcase:

Workshop on Analyzing Disinformation & Fake News

6 ft by 2 ft painted scroll done for the Workshop on Fake News — Detail of a large 6 ft by 2 ft painted scroll done for the Workshop on Fake News by Manasvini S, Kritika Srivastava, Shaleen Khatri, Tanaya Deo, Tanaya Prasad. It explored the politics of historical comparison on the question of public assemblies

Detail of an artist’s book done for the Workshop on Fake News — Detail of an artist’s book done for the Workshop on Fake News by Ved Kulkarni, Soham Gurav, Muskan Chauhan, Niharika Srikanth, Pavit Sahni. It explored the politics of historical comparison on the question of territorial annexation.

Body & Context: Questioning the Augmented Body

Performative sculpture done under Body & Context (Questioning the Augmented Body) — Performative sculpture done under Body & Context (Questioning the Augmented Body) by Tanisha Jain, Gouri Ajithkumar, Viraj Vinayak, Rutika Pahade. It attempted to critique the normalization of the panoptic gaze in urban technologies

Form & Structure: Between the Lines

Detail of Playable Sound Sculpture done under Form & Structure (Between the Lines) — Detail of Playable Sound Sculpture done under Form & Structure (Between the Lines) by Suryadev Parmar. It explored unorthodox sound generating contraptions by reimagining everyday found objects