NSHarsha is an Indian artist whose work reveals a political comment in the context of Indian miniature painting, Indian narrative tradition and modern folk art. The figures in the delicate world, clever and fun, are almost always centered on an event, inspired by a mutual curiosity, pointing out something that is strange, incongruous or comically strange. For the viewer the wit resides both in the scale of representations as in the fine detail eloquent summary of the bullet.
Harsha work includes painting, installations and large-scale community projects. In his recent work Cosmic Orphans (2006) a specific painting installation site in the Sri Krishnan Temple created for the Singapore Biennale, Harsha covered the entire surface of the roof above the inner sanctuary and the land surrounding the temple tower with paintings of sleeping figures. Painted directly on the floor using flat colors, the figures occupy a space not normally associated with traditional painting – their displacement causing the audience to consider what is permitted and forbidden in relation to where the tread in the temple .
Born in 1969, Harsha lives and works in Mysore, India. He studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda (1995). Since then he has participated in a variety of collaborative projects and international exhibitions such as the Singapore Biennale 2006, the second Triennale Fukuoka Asian Art 2002 and the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Australia 1999.
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