Gopakumar (born 1972 in Oachira, Kerala) is an Indian contemporary multidisciplinary artist, curator and India’s first major digital art collector living and working in Kingdom of Bahrain.
He works in a variety of media, including digital art, motion photography, installation, drawing, painting and print.
He uses art and technology to discuss and expose the environmental, social and political issues of the society.
“I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetic sense and experiment with finding new visual phenomena. “
Exhibitions include:
Saatchi Gallery London, UK.
Tate Britain, UK.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India (Collaterals)
Bahrain Museum, Manama, Bahrain
The Kinsey Institute Art Gallery, USA.
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
2021 CADAF Crypto and Digital Art Fair, Paris, France.
2021 Visual Artists Association, Art Exhibition, London, UK
2021 V-Art Digital Art Spaceship Exhibition – Ukraine
2020 Art Workshop and Exhibition 151 birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
2020 Monsoon Art Fest, Kerala, India
2019 Objectified CICA Museum, South Korea
2016 Art Rise Savannah’s Art Festival, Savannah, Georgia
2016 Alert Not Alarm – Unpresentable in Presentation, Durbar Hall 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
“Super Patron†The Virtual Online Museum of Art is the world’s first virtual museum (voma.space)
Bangalore University included his Digital art practice and biography in their Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) Syllabus (Program: B.V.A in Creative Painting, Course Title: New media art and Technology)
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.
Publication:
Publications Lidia Chiarelli Immagine & Poesia – The Movement in Progress – A Cross-Cultural Communications Edition, Merrick, New York, 2013
Artist Exposed – R.Gopakumar – Gunas Publishing – India, 2010
NeoPopRealism Starz: 21st Century ART, 1st Volume, Erotica As A High Artistic Aspiration by Nadia Russ, 2010
NeoPopRealism Starz: 21st Century ART, 2nd Volume, Erotica As A High Artistic Aspiration by Nadia Russ, 2010
MOCA: Museum of Computer Art – Second Anniversary Exhibit 2010, Brooklyn, New York by Donarcher
International Contemporary Artists – by Olga Antoniadou, Eve Lemonidou, 2010
The ABC of ARTnership, Vol 2, 2009
Journal of Graphic Engineering and designâ€, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Department of Textiles, Graphic Arts and Design, the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Introduction to Digital Art, John Antoine Labadie, Margie Beth Labadie, Edition: 2, 2019
Encyclopedia of Drawing Art and Painting, Alfonzo Broyles Velma Cain, 2016
Encyclopedia of Drawing Art, Velma Cain, 2016
Journal of Creative Arts and Minds, Vol. 1, No. 1 – June 2015 [13] A
Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design 2015 – Frank Wilczek (The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004)
The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital, 2016, Lukasz Mirocha, Scott Contreras-Koterbay
Collections:
Saatchi Gallery London, UK.
Tate Britain, UK.
Kinsey Institute Indiana University Permanent Art Collection
Immagine Poesia, Torino, Italy
Founder and Curator:
INCAF- Indian Neo Contemporary Art Foundation.
Art Biennale – Asia’s First Social Media Biennale of its kind.
