Jayant Gupta (Profile)
Jayant Gupta (b. 1987, Dohrighat, Uttar Pradesh, India)
About his work
Jayant Gupta is a contemporary visual artist working in Jaipur. His father being a commercial painter, Jayant was exposed to art from quite a young age. His works are derived from his own personal experiences in the present socio cultural situations of our time. He is exposed to a wide range of materials and mediums, like drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and mix media.
He has been involved in making a variety of works, which evolve from a wide spectrum of emotions and desires; engaging visually through the body and space into the vulnerability of the human condition, its insecurities, fears and complexities... The human being, for Jayant, is a very fragile entity; driven by his own emotions and struggles; between his self-created thoughts and social realities. Deriving an ideal human being from the stream of fearful blackness, sufferings and pain; or even better to say: from the realities of life may be his underlying motive. One can easily sense a psychedelic or a psycho-drama in his visual aesthetic, which denotes the complexities and mysteries of life.
Education
- Research Scholar at Banasthali University, Rajasthan; 2018
- Master of Fine Arts (Painting); Rajasthan University, Jaipur; 2012
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting); Banaras Hindu University (BHU); 2009
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Cabinet of Curiosities; Curated by Red Earth; K Square, Jaipur; 2019
- Cabinet of Curiosities; Curated by Red Earth; Coomaraswamy Hall, Mumbai; 2019
- 29th National Exhibition of Contemporary Art; Organised by SCZCC Nagpur; Hyderabad; 2016
- Alptraum; Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal; 2015
- Tales from the Darkness; Sunaparanta Art Center, Goa; 2015
- Alptraum; Salon de Lirio, Goa; 2015
- All India Contemporary Art Exhibition; Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur; 2014
- Birla Art and Culture, Annual Exhibition; Kolkata; 2013 and 2012
- 12th All India Art Exhibition; Organized by State Lalit Kala Kendra, Lucknow; 2009
- Interstate Folk and Modern Art Exhibition; Ara, Bihar; 2007
Other Achievements
- Extensive teaching experience in visual arts disciplines: Amity University, Indian Institute of Crafts and Design, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; 2013-2018
- Junior Research Fellowship from HRD Ministry; 2015
- Scholarship from Govt. of India, Ministry of Culture, New Delhi; 2011
- Certificate of Merit and several awards; Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; 2006-2010