Alwar balasubramaniam biography
- Early life and education.
- Alwar Balasubramaniam (Bala) was born in 1971 in Tamil Nadu, India.
- Born in 1971 in Tamil Nadu, Southern India, Alwar Balasubramaniam's sculptures, prints and installations challenge our perceptions while creating forms for the.
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Alwar Balasubramaniam
Indian artist
Alwar Balasubramaniam | |
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| Born | 1971 (age 53–54) Tamil Nadu, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
Alwar Balasubramaniam (Tamil: ஆழ்வார் பாலசுப்ரமணியம், Hindi: अलवर बालासुब्रमण्यम, born c. 1971), commonly known as Bala, is an Indian artist known for his sculptures, paintings, and printmaking.[1]
Early life and education
Bala was born in Tamil Nadu, India. In 1995, he obtained a BFA from the Government College of Arts in Chennai, specializing in printmaking. Later, he continued his studies in prints and paintings at the Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop (EPW) and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He resided at the MacDowell Colony in Massachusetts in the early 2000s and transitioned into sculpture and installation work after that.[2]
Career
In 2002, Bala held his inaugural solo exhibition in the United States at the Talwar Gallery in New York City.[3] The exhibition included sculptures crafted from casts of his own body, monoprints, and a heat-sensitive artwork that un
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Alwar Balasubramaniam is an Indian Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1971.
How much does an Alwar Balasubramaniam cost?
Alwar Balasubramaniam's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 50 USD to 176,344 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.What is Alwar Balasubramaniam's most expensive sculpture?
Since 2005 the record price for this artist at auction is 176,344 USD for Gravity, sold at Christie's Mumbai in 2014.Where can I see Alwar Balasubramaniam's works?
Their work is currently being shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Talwar Gallery, New Delhi have featured Alwar Balasubramaniam's work in the past.Alwar Balasubramaniam in the news
Alwar Balasubramaniam has been featured in articles for Christie's Daily, Ocula and ARTINFO. The most recent article is Art on Site: The Newest Virtual Galleries from India written for The Hindu in September 2020.Artist's alternative names: A. Bala
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Alwar Balasubramaniam
He has frequently employed his own body as the medium by making casts of his face, hands and full body to negotiate the boundaries of self and within oneself.
Balasubramaniam's works have been exhibited around the world including at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York in 2010, Essel Museum, Austria (2009), Mori Art Museum, Japan (2008) and 1st Singapore Biennale (2006). His works are also currently on view in Sk(in), a solo exhibition at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. He lives and works in Bangalore, India.
Lifting the painted veil
Alwar Balasubramaniam on searching self-lessly...
‘Not everyone understands my work,’ says Alwar Balasubramaniam, somewhat gleefully. ‘They don’t have to,’ he concedes. As if to prove his point, Bala’s contributions for Beyond the Self show him off at his enigmatic best. Since this exhibition focuses on the self portrait, Bala has decided to leave himself out of the picture – well, almost. In one work, two white sheets of nearly blank paper are speck
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