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Shaurya Kumar

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Bio

Chair of Faculty (2021-); Chair of Printmedia (2019-2021); Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (sept 2022- dec 2023). 

Education: BFA, 2002, College of Art, New Delhi, India; MFA, 2007, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. 

Exhibitions: Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai; Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Queens Museum of Art, NYC; Sundaram Tagore NYC; AICON Gallery, NYC; Gallery Threshold, Delhi, India; SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque; Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles; UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque; Projecto Ace, Argentina, Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai, TamTam Gallery, Taiwan; India Art Fair; Mumbai Art Fair; Dubai Art Fair; Abu Dhabi Art Fair; Hong Kong Art Fair; Poznan Art Week. 

Publications: Art in Print; The Mid America Print Council Journal; Handmade in India. 

Bibliography: Art India, Hindustan Times; The Hindu; Indian Express; Times of India; Architectural Digest; Readers Digest; Open Magazine; The Patriot; Pioneer; A&D Magazine; India Today; Elle; Ghost; Anode Cathode: American Printmakers; Printeresting.org; Graphic Impressions; Survey of Contemporary Printmaking; Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Processes and Materials. 

Collections: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, India; Gujral Foundation, Delhi, India; Hinduja Foundation, Mumbai; SGC International; UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM; Royal College of Art, London; India Habitat Center, New Delhi; Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium. 

Awards: National Endowment for the Arts; 2015 Faculty of the Year Award, SAIC; Illinois Individual Artists' Grant; Institute of Culture and Society, OH; Markem-Imaje International Award.

Courses

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Description

A course, for students working at all levels of printmaking or painting, that introduces a variety of monotyping techniques. Some of the media used in the course are oil based, such as oil pigments and oil-based inks; and some are water based, such as opaque and transparent watercolors, water soluble inks, and tempera paints. Registration and overprinting methods are shown, along with stencil and transferring processes. Instruction consists of demonstrations and private and group critiques.

Class Number

1226

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1703

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

2312

Credits

3 - 6