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TARUN SHARMA

Visual Artist

Artist’s Bio
Tarun Sharma is a visual art practitioner whose work is inspired by little things that happen around us every day. MFA graduate from College of Art, New Delhi, India. His works includes drawings, paintings, mezzotint prints, woodcut prints and installations.
His recent project titled “HELPLESSNESS” is a part of a series of works, which is focused on the common thread of misery amongst humans. We are all helpless, albeit in our own, unique ways. The misery is variable but suffering is constant for everyone. Empathy is vital in recognising and accepting that being human entails certain circumstances that none of us can control or change. Documenting such instances is the artist’s way of contributing to the fabric that binds us all, and he hopes to start a conversation about it by shedding light on the way suffering manifests for everyone.
Mostly the artworks are inspired by the artist’s personal trials and tribulations with life, which he saw reflected in essence wherever he went. His works are based on his personal experience with medical helplessness which heavily affected his way of thinking and his works.
The main point that the artist intends to convey through his artwork is that the essence of the common thread that binds all of humanity is empathy.

ABOUT MY ART PRACTICE

through my recent project

My art practise is about looking inward and try to find a subject for my works with which I can truly relate to before pursuing. Apart from drawing or sketching casually or regularly for building a skill set I have a habit of reading and writing about why I would like to draw or paint something, so the actual art practise for me starts right from the moment this thought runs through my mind of questioning and after that reading, writing and discussing about the same with peers or through social media platforms. As I have pursued my Bachelor’s and my Master’s Degree in Printmaking specialisation so I have a habit of thinking and relating the subject with the media or the respective technique in which I would initiate the works.
It majorly includes observing while travelling through bus, metro, car, train or by feet. I get to know myself as a person and also learn about how the society functions as my art practise is evidently is a two way process of give and take relation between myself and society. For instance, when I was suffering drastically due to asthma and rising pollution in Delhi for which everyone including me feels helpless about it and treats the winter season in Delhi as a phase of curse for people living with respiratory problems in Delhi, it heavily affected my way of thinking and as the ripple effect of this medical helplessness phase I was conditioned to see and observe people suffering on my way from point A to point B wherever I go and whenever I go. For me it was really surprising as my route of travelling was quite the same before and after the sickness but my visuals were completely changed as in before asthma I was less empathetic and observant but after the sickness period my way of thinking changed completely and I am now more sensitive, perceptive and patient also.
For me my work resonates phases of life and in a way mostly my works are initially auto-biographical and later I start questioning and building in and around it which helps in making the foundation of works strong.

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TARUN SHARMA
Born 1995
tarunvisualartist@gmail.com
https://tarunvisualartist.wixsite.com/website
+91 9717382737
Education
2017 BFA (PRINTMAKING), Silver medallist, College of Art, New Delhi
2019 MFA (PRINTMAKING), Gold medallist, College of Art, New Delhi
2020 Awarded Scholarship for 15 weeks(January 2020-April 2020) at MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER, NEW YORK for advance learning in printmaking (MEZZOTINT)
Awards and Honours
2017 state award in graphic Prafulla Dhanukar foundation
2018 Honourable mention in graphic, All India Amritsar Fine Art Academy
2017-18 Young scholarship, ministry of culture, INDIA
2019 Selection in the 7TH Guanlan International Print Biennial China
2019 Selection in International Mezzotint Festival Russia
2019 selected for fellowship in graphic in Kanoria centre for arts, Ahmedabad
2019 selection in EIGHT INTERNATIONAL PRINT ART TRIENNIAL – SOFIA
2019 selection in ABIR FIRST TAKE 2019
2019 Selection in International Mezzotint Exhibition Campinas, Brazil
2019 Selection and Exhibition in "EROTICA" 2019 at BLANK SPACE, Art gallery in OSLO, Norway
2019 selection and exhibition in BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNALE 2019, ROMANIA
2019 Selection of artworks in The National Association of Contemporary Printmakers,ITALY (Associazione Nazionale Incisori Contemporanei)
2019-20 Awarded Lalit Kala Scholarship Ministry of Culture Government of INDIA, Regional Centre , Garhi, New Delhi, INDIA
Exhibition and Art Camps
2014, 15 Lalitya Art Camp, Nagpur
2015 Group show at Lalit kala Akademi, New Delhi
2017 Canarys art gallery Madhya Pradesh
2018 confluence AIFACS, New Delhi
2018 Selected for All India Student Art camp organised by Takshila, Siwan Bihar
2018 Assisted International artists in International Mezzotint camp, siwan, Bihar
2019 Selected in Artist-in-Residence program organised by ICAC (International Creative Art Center) Mumbai
2019 participated in The Garbage Project – ecologies of the everyday at crtical dialogues art space, Delhi 110009
2019 GROUP SHOW organised by Conferro Heritaè at PULLMAN Hotel NEW DELHI AEROCITY
Social links
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFXhpGv1xpw&t=13s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkTxp4N5KYc&t=13s

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