Arvind Sundar (b. 1993) received his MFA degree in painting and drawing from the School of Art, University of Cincinnati, 2018, which he completed post a Prior Degree Course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2016. He was also awarded the Presidential Scholarship of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for 2015. A recipient of the Wolstein travel fellowship for 2017, Arvind then travelled across Italy to study Renaissance painting and sculpture. Arvind's conceptual work revolves around the idea of play and a lightness of being. He works with concepts related to geometry, grids, and mathematics to arrive at kinetic compositions reflecting spiritual and physical connectedness to mathematical and geometrical systems. He has participated in over fifty exhibitions, including at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Cincinnati, 2018; Homage to Hassan Sharif, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE, 2017; Everything will work out: two-person show, Divisible Artist Collective, Dayton, 2017; Locus Pocus: Paintings by Peter Shear and Arvind Sundar, 840 Gallery, Cincinnati, 2018; Drawing Index, Cholamandal Artist Village, Chennai, 2019; Making Spaces, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2019; A6 Mural Project, an artist project run by Dutch artist Lydia Wierenga, Netherlands, 2020. Over 2023–2024, Arvind has had a solo exhibition, Blueprints for Impossible Structures, exhibited at the Busan Art Fair, BEXCO, and in an Indo-Korean exhibition at Jeju Islands in 2023. His work was shown at the Chennai Biennale as a part of the Indo-Korean pavilion. He was also awarded the BICAR writing fellowship for 2023. His work was shown in AMCA's booth at the India Art Fair in 2024, and he will be an artist-in-residence at Hampi Art Labs, JSW Foundation. His artworks are part of several private and museum collections.
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