About Kishor Shinde

Born in 1958, Kishor Shinde studied at the M.S. University, Vadodra, is a prominent accomplished artist, famous for his abstractions. An artist can find inspiration to paint in almost anything, sometimes he simplifies the world around him, and at times he finds the complexities in things around him motivating. It is his eternal quest to find a visual language that expresses his thoughts, his feelings. Kishor Shinde is on a quest to find a visual language that reverberates with an energy that signifies the ethereal.

As the artist states, "While standing in front of the white canvas space, the inner eye opens. As my body responds, abstract versions of rhythm, builds visual syllables and symbols. This in turn renders meanings in nonfigurative modes. Myriad colours fill the spaces. I am painting in a cathartic fervour." Shinde's canvases are is playground of free spirited application of paint laden with an emotive context. Though seemingly unplanned the artist is conscious and specific of the colours he chooses to let loose in his works, "The paint packed in the factory is detached – away from human emotions. But, while becoming a painting it goes through a process of attachment, taking life from the artist to live its own."He received the National Academy Award for Painting in 1998, amongst several other recognitions and awards in India. His artworks have been exhibited at leading galleries in Germany, India, Singapore and other Asian countries. Shinde lives and works in Delhi.