Gopakumar.R

'''Gopakumar. R''' (born 17 May 1972) is an Indian contemporary artist living in Ochira, Kerala, India.

He works in different media including digital art, motion photography, installation, drawing, painting, and new media. He is influenced by conceptual art, abstract art, Indian tantric art, romanticism and expressionism.

Biography
Gopakumar completed his Five year Diploma in Fine Arts painting from from Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Mavelikara Kerala in 1996.

He uses art & technology to discuss and expose the social & political issues of society. He believes the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetic sense and experiment with finding new visual phenomena.

He is the representative for India and Bahrain of the Literary Art Movement Immagine & Poesia founded by Aeronwy Thomas a Torino in 2007.

In 2014 he was selected among the finalists of the Saatchi Gallery in London for the  Motion photography  category and Google+ for  The Motion Photography Prize . The members of the jury were: the director Baz Luhrmann, the artists Shezad Dawood, Tracey Emin, Cindy Sherman and Saatchi Gallery CEO Nigel Hurst.

Exhibitions

 * 2020 Monsoon Art Fest, Kerala, India.
 * 2020 Art Workshop and Exhibition 151 birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India.
 * 2019 Objectified 2019 CICA Museum, South Korea.
 * 2016 Art Rise Savannah’s GIF Festival, Savannah, Georgia.
 * 2016 Alert Not Alarm - Unpresentable in Presentation, Durbar Hall Ground Art Gallery, Kochi, Kerala, India
 * 2015 Vastu – Dialogues on Post-Performance Object, Nanappa Art Gallery, Kochi, Kerala, India
 * 2015 Sofia Underground – International Performance Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria.
 * 2016 Art Rise Savannah’s Art Festival, Savannah, Georgia.
 * 2014 Critical Juncture, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India (exhibition and residency).
 * 2014 Tate Britain, UK - Source Spotlight Light Display - Texture & Collage Exhibition.
 * 2014 The Power of Art, Tune Bibliotek, Sarpsborg, Norvegia.
 * 2014 The Saatchi Gallery, Saatchi Art and Google+ The Motion Photography Prize Exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
 * 2014 Cesar Garcia (curator) (Curated Art Collection) Saatchi Art Online
 * 2013 Art Meets Poetry, sponsored by the City of Turin, Arte Città Amica, Torino, Italia.
 * 2013 Colours - Peace & Solidarity, Årjängs Bibliotek, Galleri Passagen, Sweden.
 * 2012 Art Meets Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Poetry Exhibition - Arte Città Amica, Turin, Italy.
 * 2012 Immagine & Poesia Beausoleil: Gianpiero Actis and friends of the Movement - Municipal Cyberspace Beausoleil, Francia.
 * 2011 Exhibition on the 150th Anniversary of Italian Unification - Homage to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Arte Città Amica, Turin, Italy.
 * 2011 Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Grafica Manzoni, Turin, Italy.
 * 2010 Absence of freedom Digital print to Yoko Ono's Wish Tree at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
 * 2010 "Nature & Nurture”, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction Art Gallery, USA, as part of the fall exhibition.
 * 2010 2nd Anniversary Exhibit and Contest, MOCA: Museum of Computer Art, Brooklyn New York, USA.
 * 2009 Art Exhibition, ISE Cultural Foundation New York, USA.
 * 2000 Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain.
 * 1996 Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Kerala, India.
 * 1991 - 1995 Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Kerala, India.