KAVITA NAYAR

Kavita Nayar was born in 1957. She received her BFA from Kala Bhavana, Shantiniketan in 1979 and her MFA from the College of Art, New Delhi in 1989. She was a Visiting Artist to the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford for 1995-1996 on a scholarship from the Charles Wallace India Trust. From 1997 to 1999, she held a Senior Fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. Nayar was Vice President of the Indian Printmaker’s Guild from 1990 to 2000.

The artist, while recognised best for her printmaking, has experimented across a number of mediums including oil acrylic, pastel and watercolour. Her ever-dynamic practice lays importance on deep reflection in order to express emotional experience through a fantastical imagination.

She has held solo shows at Otterbein University, Ohio; Bose PAcia, New York; Oxford University; and Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius. Her works are part of collections in India, France, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Sweden, and the United States.

Nayar lives and works in New Delhi.