Biography

Born 1972, Trivandrum, Kerala completed BFAin Painting from College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum in 1994 and MFAin Painting from Delhi College of Art, New Delhi in 1999.

He has held various solo shows which include ;\'Dual Liquid\', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2010 ;\'Dual Liquid\', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai in 2009-10; \'Chemical Smuggle’, Grosvenor Vadehra, London in 2008 ;‘Pseudo-Homelands’, Rohtas Art Gallery, Lahore in 2005 .

Sumedh works have also been part of many group exhibitions that include; ‘Living Walls: where gallery walls become artist’s canvas’ A collaborative art project with Art Alive Gallery, 2013; ‘Zones of contact –Propositions on Museum’, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art India in 2013; ‘Kochi-muziris’, Biennale, Kochi, India in 2012; ‘Contemporary Indian art in Gothenburg’, Sweden, 2010;‘India Awakens Under Banyan Tree at ‘ESSL’ Museum’, Vienna in 2010;‘Beyond Globalization’,Beyond Art Space, Beijing in 2009;‘ Everywhere is War’ (and rumours of War) Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai in 2008; ‘Here and Now: Young Voices from India’, Grosvenor Vadehra, London in 2007; ‘Satyagraha, on 100 years of Satyagraha’, New Delhi and Durban in 2006 .

He is the recipient of several residency programs; ‘Hat Residency Program’, University of Manchester in 2007; ‘Theertha International Residency’, Colombo in 2006; KHOJ International Artists’ Residency, New Delhi in 2003; Junior Research Fellowship, Government of India in1998; and was awarded National Scholarship, Government of India in 1993. He lives & works in New Delhi.