MURALI  CHEEROTH

Murali Cheeroth has exhibited in over 100 significant shows across the globe in the last two decades. Among his collectors are corporate institutions, museums and private art collectors. In the past he worked extensively with printmaking and theater, now he primarily works on painting, video and performance. His visual works refer to a wide variety of sources in the cultural sphere and contain within them a deep conversation with the history of representation in visual media, fine art, cinema, music and architecture. Within the context of the history of visual representation, his current explorations include the architecture of the city, urbanization and urban cultures. He looks closely at the ideas of re-construction, infrastructure, technology, speed and change, intersections of local and the global, multiple layers of urban identities and so on. Murali situates each work within larger thematic explorations in humanities, social sciences and in visual art media. He has also taught in CEPT, Ahmedabad, Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore and Chennai. His engagement with this broad range of institutions is readable from his conceptual and figurative concerns. Some of his major exhibitions include ‘passage to India’ – the New Indian Art from the Frank Cohen collection in UK (2009); Indian Art summit in New Delhi, SH contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, Chicago Art Fair and London Art Fair in 2010, Colombo Beinnale , 2012, Chalo India – A group show of Contemporary Indian Artists at Basel Art Centre, Basel, Switzerland, Feb 2014. Hotel Maria Kapel Korte Achterstraat 2a1621 GA Hoorn NL-22015, Art fair in Torino, Italy2015 and the Second International Art Exhibition of the Silk Road, Shanxi Art Museum China-2015. His art education includes a BFA and MFA from Shantiniketan, West Bengal and advanced computer diploma in digital media. Murali performs ‘LIVE’ art. He says, ”My work ‘Notes from the other side of the river’ is about co-existential living in our planet, where I am trying to look into ‘what keeps our mankind alive’ - personal to impersonal, a cross examination of anthropogenic issues, how it impacts on nature and our direct and indirect spaces. Issues related to the spaces which we hold and share and objects and images we play with intimately, the memories which we carry about images and objects. I am looking at it as an artist, not as an activist, creating a work for dialogue, asking questions about micro-co-existential spaces.