N.S. Harsha Indian, b. 1969
Biography
Born in 1969, N.S. Harsha completed a bachelor’s of fine arts in painting from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts (CAVA), Mysore, and a master’s of fine arts in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
His recent solo exhibitions and projects have taken place at international venues, including Stomach Studio, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (2022); Recent Life, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (2020); Gathering Delights, CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile), Hong Kong, China (2019); NS Harsha, Victoria Miro, London, UK (2019); Facing, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK (2018); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2017); the Dallas Museum of Art (2015–2016); DAAD, as part of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (2012–2013); INIVA, London (2009); and at Maison Hermes Tokyo (2008), among other noteworthy participations. Harsha’s work has featured in group exhibitions including the Kochi–Muziris Biennale, India (2014); Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art (2013); Dojima Biennial, Osaka (2013); Adelaide International Biennial (2012); Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2012); the Yokohama Triennial (2011) and the Bienal de São Paulo (2010). He was also a participant in the major touring exhibition Indian Highway, which was staged at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2008); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2009); Herning Art Museum, Denmark (2010); Musée d’ Art Contemporain, Lyon (2011); and MAXXI, Rome (2011–12).
His works are in the permanent collections of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Muhka Museum, Antwerp; Glenn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; the National Museum of Cardiff, UK; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi.
Harsha received the prestigious DAAD Scholarship in 2012, and was awarded the Artes Mundi Prize in 2008.
The artist lives and works in Mysore, India.
Works
Exhibitions
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People, Places, Things
D-40 & D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 6 May - 15 June 2024Belonging to someone, somewhere or something is an experiential arrangement. These social relations form the crux of the human behavioral sciences, which seek to study why human beings engage in...Read more -
The Patience of Ordinary Things
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 29 August - 23 September 2023The Patience of Ordinary Things It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor...Read more -
A Handful of Dust
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 19 May - 18 June 2022Exhibiting Artists: Jagannath Panda, K.M. Madhusudhanan, N.S. Harsha, Sudhir Patwardhan, Praneet Soi, Gigi Scaria, Sujith S.N., Susanta Mandal, Pranati Panda, Sachin George Sebastian, Shailesh B.R., Biraaj Dodiya, Shrimanti Saha, Priyanka...Read more -
N.S. Harsha: Stomach Studio
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 2 March - 2 May 2022The Worlding of the Portrait By Gayatri Sinha N.S. Harsha gives us a manner of painting, which has to be read rather than viewed. In the performative act of...Read more -
Call Me By Your Name | Conceptualised by Udit Bhambri
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 21 July - 13 August 2021The puzzles of love involve two master components: the self and the other, which are a kind of couple. It’s in our nature to acknowledge ourselves in or with some...Read more
Art Fairs
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
A Sense Across the Field 26 - 30 March 2024We are pleased to announce our returning participation in the 2024 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, with a group presentation titled 'A Sense Across...Read more -
Frieze Seoul
COEX Exhibition Centre, Seoul 6 - 9 September 2023The most urgent and topical discourses of our times seem to stake claim on trends of rupture. In the melting pot that is the contemporary...Read more -
Art Basel Hong Kong 2023
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre Wan Chai, Hong Kong 21 - 25 March 2023At the long-awaited return of Art Basel’s Hong Kong edition, we are presenting artworks by leading Indian contemporary artists Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi,...Read more -
INDIA ART FAIR 2023
NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla, New Delhi 9 - 12 February 2023With a diverse roster of artists across conditioning, intention, practice and cultural attitudes – including A. Ramachandran, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi, Biraaj Dodiya,...Read more -
FRIEZE SCULPTURE
N.S. Harsha 14 September - 13 November 2022For leading Indian contemporary artist N.S. Harsha, art-making is beyond a simple arbitrary or mimetic gesture. Harsha’s work emerges from a confluence of self-consciousness and...Read more -
THE ARMORY SHOW
THE LIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON 8 - 11 September 2022In the Hero’s Journey, Joseph Campbell contends that a hero – “someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself” –...Read more
Bulletin
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NS Harsha's portrait of the present moment in ‘Stomach Studio’
By Avantika Bhuyan | Mint Lounge 13 March 2022In Emission Test, for instance, you initially feel you are looking at rows upon rows of people sitting for RT-PCR tests. Yet each person is...Read more -
‘Interwoven metaphors make art a great bridge to understand time and space of life’: Artist NS Harsha
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 12 March 2022Q. Humour seems crucial to your work. How important is it in getting your idea across? Ans.Layers of humour such as parody, satire, travesty etc...Read more -
Exploring the cosmos on canvas
By Anjani Chadha | New Indian Express 9 March 2022The universal function of art is not just to reflect the world around us but also to provide the audience a chance to explore deeper...Read more -
Stomach Studio: N.S. Harsha
By Gayatri Sinha | Platform Magazine 3 March 2022N.S. Harsha gives us a manner of painting which has to be read rather than viewed. In the performative act of moving closer and then...Read more -
Delhi: Why you need to check out Call Me By Your Name, the star-studded art exhibition at Vadehra Gallery
By Shikha Sethi | GQ India 24 November 2021At the newest exhibition at Vadehra Gallery in Delhi, it’s a star-studded lineup: Atul and Anju Dodiya, Arpita Singh, Gieve Patel, Sudhir Patwardhan, NS Harsha,...Read more -
Interview with NS Harsha
Art Asia Pacific 1 August 2019“Gathering Delights,” Mysore-based NS Harsha’s solo exhibition at Hong Kong’s Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, includes Nations (2007/17), an installation of 193 sewing machines...Read more -
Indian Artist To Present Largest Solo Show In Hong Kong
NDTV 22 May 2019The largest-ever solo Hong Kong exhibition of Indian artist NS Harsha, known for his multi-faceted artistic practice, would show how textile is a blank canvas...Read more -
NS HARSHA: FACING | ART INTERVIEW
Buzz Magazine 5 July 2018On the eve of an exciting new exhibition in Glynn Vivian gallery’s revamped exhibition space, Polina Zelmanova talks to Indian artist and previous Artes Mundi...Read more -
NS Harsha: Mixing cosmos and consumerism
By Tanuj Kumar | Mint 23 March 2018NS Harsha’s Reclaiming The Inner Space is mammoth. The Mysuru-based artist’s wall-mounted installation, almost 40ft wide, takes up a whole wall at the Art Gallery...Read more -
NS Harsha
Art It Asia 4 December 2017Currently the subject of a large-scale solo exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, NS Harsha was born in 1969 in Mysore, where he...Read more -
Around the world in 193 sewing machines
The Statemen 22 February 2017From the myriad experiences of his extensive travels across the world was born Indian artist N S Harsha's new installation work 'Nations' that connects 193...Read more -
N.S. Harsha: Charming Journey at Mori Art Museum
Mori Art Museum 4 February 2017N. S. Harsha was born in 1969 in southern India's ancient capital Mysuru, where he continues to reside and pursue his artistic practice. India's fast-paced...Read more -
Artist N.S. Harsha on 'Brilliant Ideas' | Episode 22
Bloomberg 27 February 2016Born in 1969, NS Harsha lives and works in Mysore, India. Drawing on a broad spectrum of Indian painting traditions, miniature painting, popular art and...Read more -
2nd Kochi-Muziris Biennale
By Dieter Roelstraete | Frieze 16 March 2015On 20 May 1498, the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama first set foot ashore south-west India’s Malabar Coast in search of ‘Christians and spices’, most...Read more -
Artworks from Kochi Muziris Biennale 2014
Hindustan Times 16 December 2014N S Harsha’s sculpture Matter at the central lawn in Pepper House features a monkey, a favourite motif of the artist, holding a ball and...Read more -
Art Talk with NS Harsha Held
The New Indian Express 15 April 2014Art lovers in the city on Sunday got a chance to interact with renowned contemporary artist N S Harsha, who was in the city to...Read more -
N S Harsha
E Flux 5 May 2013In cooperation with the façade gallery of Kule e.V., the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program has initiated a series of public art projects on the housing front...Read more -
NS Harsha
Another Magazine 4 May 2011NS Harsha was born in 1969. He lives and works in Mysore, India. Represented in London by Victoria Miro Gallery, he is famed for his...Read more -
Artist NS Harsha on how he paints
By N.S. Harsha | The Guardian 20 December 2009I start a painting with a vague thought – it could be based on my everyday experience, or something else altogether – and from there...Read more -
Artes Mundi 2008: NS Harsha
BBC 11 December 2008Indian artist NS Harsha won the third Artes Mundi prize in 2008. He is best known for his miniatures, large scale installations and community projects....Read more