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NS Harsha

NS Harsha

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  • About
    View works. NS Harsha, Festival of Recipes, 2022
    Festival of Recipes, 2022
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    Drawing on a broad spectrum of Indian painting traditions and popular arts, as well as the western canon, NS Harsha creates quietly philosophical, luminous works that reflect on geopolitical order and our ever-more technologically mediated relationship with the world. In exquisitely rendered paintings, works on paper, wall and floor works, sculptures, site-specific installations and public projects, the Mysore-based artist examines structures, borders and barriers as a series of ever-shifting concepts, alluding to an interconnectedness that compels the viewer to consider their relationship to the art work as part of a wider conversation about systems of knowledge, belief and power.

    While storytelling endures at the heart of his practice, linear narrative remains largely absent from the loosely gridded compositions of Harsha's canvases. The artist has described the process of producing these works as something like a chanting with forms, recalling a musical sense of cyclical time. The mood of these densely populated works is quietly philosophical. They lend a gentle humour and dreamlike grace to the human struggle of making meaning (whether scientific or spiritual). It is this non-hierarchical weaving of elements that lends Harsha's work a visual richness and generosity of spirit.

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  • Selected Works

    NS Harsha, A birth and its chanced panicle, 2024 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, Festival of Recipes, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, Desired for – Arrived at, 2021 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, Smears to weave her everyday, 2019 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, Warmth, 2019 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, Reclaiming the Inner Space, 2017 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, Being Here and Now, 2014 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, Tamasha, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, In the chain of consumption, 2012 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, Distress Call from Jupiter's Neighborhood, 2011 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, Grant me absence from the market of meanings, 2010 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, In musth, 2009 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, Nations, 2007-2017 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    NS Harsha, A birth and its chanced panicle, 2024
  • Biography
    View works. NS Harsha, Festival of Recipes, 2022
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    Born in 1969, NS Harsha lives and works in Mysore, India. He was a recipient of the prestigious DAAD Scholarship in 2012, and was awarded the Artes Mundi Prize in 2008. Recent solo exhibitions and projects have taken place at international venues including Naoshima New Museum of Art, Japan (2025); NS Harsha: Stomach Studio, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (2022); Recent Life, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (2020); NS Harsha: Gathering Delights, CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile), Hong Kong, China (2019); NS Harsha, Victoria Miro, London, UK (2019); NS Harsha: Facing, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK (2018); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2017) the Dallas Museum of Art, TX, USA (2015–16); DAAD, as part of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (2012–13); INIVA, London, UK (2009); and at Maison Hermes Tokyo, Japan (2008).

    Harsha's work has featured in group exhibitions at venues including the Tokyo National Museum Hyokeikan, Japan (2025); The Box, Plymouth, UK (2024); MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium (2021–21); National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India (2017); Samstag Museum, Adelaide, Australia (2015); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2014); Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia (2013); Dojima Biennial, Osaka, Japan (2013); Adelaide International Biennial, Australia (2012); Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA (2012); the Yokohama Triennial, Japan (2011) and the Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2010). He was also a participant in the major touring exhibition Indian Highway, which was staged at the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2008); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (2009); Herning Art Museum, Denmark (2010); Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (2011); MAXXI, Rome, Italy (2011–12). 

    His work is in the permanent collections of the Glenn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, UK; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Muhka Museum, Antwerp, Belgium; National Museum of Cardiff, UK; and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.

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  • News
    • NS Harsha features in the major touring exhibition Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now

      NS Harsha features in the major touring exhibition Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now

      February 10, 2024
      On view 17 February–2 June 2024 at The Box, Plymouth, the exhibition explores how the traditions of South Asian miniature paintings have been reclaimed and...
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    • NS Harsha: Gathering Delights at CHAT, Hong Kong

      NS Harsha: Gathering Delights at CHAT, Hong Kong

      July 23, 2019
      A major survey (28 July–3 November 2019) of the artist, featuring some 30 works that more than 20 years of his practice. Curated by CHAT’s...
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    • Somak Ghoshal writes about NS Harsha in Open Magazine

      Somak Ghoshal writes about NS Harsha in Open Magazine

      May 3, 2019
      The power of love is such that it can make ‘one little room an everywhere’, the poet John Donne wrote. Standing inside the Victoria Miro...
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    • NS Harsha talks to Elephant about his Victoria Miro exhibition

      NS Harsha talks to Elephant about his Victoria Miro exhibition

      April 24, 2019
      In his new exhibition at Victoria Miro, the Indian artist considers the cosmos via monkeys, a sinister skeleton and a vast herd of elephants. By...
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    • The Art Newspaper recommends NS Harsha’s new exhibition

      The Art Newspaper recommends NS Harsha’s new exhibition

      April 12, 2019
      Monkeys have whimsically clambered up a scaffold-like structure at the Victoria Miro gallery on Wharf Road. They represent characters from old Marathi satirical theatre and,...
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    • NS Harsha at Glynn Vivian, Swansea

      NS Harsha at Glynn Vivian, Swansea

      July 7, 2018
      NS Harsha 's largest solo UK exhibition to date (7 July–9 September 2018) takes place in several spaces across the Glynn Vivian and includes three...
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    • The 21st Biennale of Sydney, featuring NS Harsha

      The 21st Biennale of Sydney, featuring NS Harsha

      March 16, 2018
      Titled Superposition, the 21st Biennale of Sydney (16 March – 11 June 2018) borrows a term from quantum mechanics to link the notions of equilibrium...
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    • NS Harsha: Charming Journey at Mori Art Museum

      NS Harsha: Charming Journey at Mori Art Museum

      April 15, 2017
      4 February - 11 June 2017. Encompassing Harsha's major works since 1995, this first mid-career retrospective explores themes running consistently through his practice, such as...
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    • NS Harsha selected as one of the first 21 artists for the 21st Biennale of Sydney, 2018

      NS Harsha selected as one of the first 21 artists for the 21st Biennale of Sydney, 2018

      March 29, 2017
      The 21st Biennale of Sydney will be presented over twelve weeks from 16 March until 11 June 2018 (Preview 13-15 March 2018). Artistic Director, Mami...
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    • NS Harsha talks to The Japan Times about his solo exhibition at the Mori Art Museum

      NS Harsha talks to The Japan Times about his solo exhibition at the Mori Art Museum

      March 1, 2017
      Big impressions live in the details. By Jeff Michael Hammond Distracted by the frenzy of today’s hyper-connected world, many of us can easily overlook the...
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    • NS Harsha: Charming Journey previewed in Artforum

      NS Harsha: Charming Journey previewed in Artforum

      January 20, 2017
      Mori Art Museum Tokyo February 4–June 11 Curated by Mami Kataoka In the painting Come Give Us a Speech , 2008, rows of pastel-clad figures...
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    • NS Harsha: Charming Journey one of Newsweek's must-see exhibitions in 2017

      NS Harsha: Charming Journey one of Newsweek's must-see exhibitions in 2017

      January 2, 2017
      If you go to just five exhibitions next year, make sure it's these ones. By Francesca Gavin N.S. Harsha (Tokyo, February 4 to June 11)...
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    • NS Harsha profiled on Bloomberg Brilliant Ideas

      NS Harsha profiled on Bloomberg Brilliant Ideas

      February 26, 2016
      Born in 1969, NS Harsha lives and works in Mysore, India. Drawing on a broad spectrum of Indian painting traditions, miniature painting, popular art and...
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    • NS Harsha | Dallas Museum of Art

      NS Harsha | Dallas Museum of Art

      21 August 2015 - 14 February 2016
      Sprouts, reach in to reach out , site-specific new mural at Dallas Museum of Art
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    • NS Harsha interviewed in Studio International

      NS Harsha interviewed in Studio International

      April 9, 2015
      NS Harsha: ‘I am like a cook. I love to make a dish, offer it to the people, and wait for a reaction’. By Harry...
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    • NS Harsha | Adelaide Festival

      NS Harsha | Adelaide Festival

      March 2, 2012
      2 - 18 March 2012
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  • Gallery Exhibitions
    • NS Harsha

      NS Harsha

      11 Apr – 18 May 2019 London Gallery I
      This solo exhibition by the renowned Indian artist NS Harsha features new and recent works, including the major installation Reclaiming the Inner Space.
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    • Forces in Nature – curated by Hilton Als

      Forces in Nature – curated by Hilton Als

      13 Oct – 14 Nov 2015 London Gallery II
      A group exhibition curated by the celebrated US critic and author Hilton Als. The exhibition explores the idea of man in nature and includes works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Verne...
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    • NS Harsha: Upward Movement

      NS Harsha: Upward Movement

      26 Mar – 25 Apr 2015 Victoria Miro Mayfair
      The artist's second solo exhibition with Victoria Miro and his first in the Mayfair gallery. One of the most significant Indian artists of his generation, Harsha draws on a broad...
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    • In the Company of Alice

      In the Company of Alice

      22 Jun – 30 Jul 2010 London Gallery I
      'If you do not solve your painting problem in painting human beings, you do not solve it at all'. Gertrude Stein Hernan Bas, John Currin, Verne Dawson, Peter Doig, Marlene...
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    • NS Harsha: Picking through the Rubble

      NS Harsha: Picking through the Rubble

      10 Oct – 14 Nov 2009 London Gallery I
      Victoria Miro Gallery and Iniva present the first solo shows in London by Indian artist NS Harsha. Working across media including sculpture, installation and community-based collaborations, NS Harsha is known...
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