Suresh Kumar

When I lift my brush, I enter a quiet communion with nature. Its colors, forms, and rhythms stir something deep within me, compelling me to translate their fleeting beauty onto canvas. Each stroke becomes a dialogue, a way to capture the pulse of the world around me.

Suresh Kumar

Contemporary Artist

About Artist

For Suresh, painting is not just a process, it's a dialogue between himself and the natural world. Born in 1973 in Chennai and trained at the Government College of Arts & Crafts, he later refined his practice under the legendary Prof. Laxma Goud at the University of Hyderabad. From an early age, Suresh’s artistic sensibility gravitated towards abstraction, a language that could speak what words seldom could. While Suresh found inspiration in the bold gestures and emotive intensity of Abstract Expressionists like Rothko and Motherwell, it was the Indian masters like S.H. Raza, Laxman Shrestha who taught him the language of inner vibration. But it is the quiet wisdom of senior artist John Tun Sien that Suresh cites as his most significant influence — not just as an artist, but as a human being. From him, Suresh learned that art is not merely something you make. It is something you become. Nature, to him, is a living presence, the very energy that sustains all life. his deep alignment with nature doesn’t manifest as landscapes. Instead, it becomes colour, vibration, rhythm. What begins as observation turns to emotion, then into a gesture, until form dissolves and the Infinite enters. Suresh sees art as a form of transcendence, not as escape from the world, but as a deeper way of being within it. His practice is rooted in the belief that creation must arise from a place “beyond the construct of the mind.” His paintings are not outcomes of thought but manifestations of presence. His works do not aim to represent anything. There is no prescribed meaning, no fixed narrative. Instead, they offer a space for immersion, introspection, expansion. It does not describe. It does not explain. It simply is. A vibration that mirrors the one within us, if we allow ourselves to feel it.

Highlights And Achievements

Artist Education

M. F. A. Painting (At Hyderabad Central University Under Professor Mr. Laxma Goud)Hyderabad Central University, 1996-1998

B. F. A. Painting Govt. Collage of Arts & Craft Chennai Under Professor Mr. Alphanso)Govt. College of Arts & Crafts, Chennai, 1990-1995

Artist Awards & Recognition

Regional Art Award 2001

Ovia Nun Kalai Kuzhu 1999

Hyderabad art Society 1998

Group Shows

2024 – Madras Art Week at Hyatt Regency, Chennai - Chennai

2023 – Korean Biennial at Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai - Jeju Island, Korea

2023 – Korean Biennial, Busan - Chennai

2023 – Korean Biennial, Jeju Island - Sweden

2023 – Primary Concerns at Gallery OED - San Francisco, USA

2022 – Confluence (Kinetics) at Gallery Veda

2021 – I Think You Should Know This (Kinetics) at Kadari Art Gallery

2021 – Similar but not the Same (Kinetics) at Veda Gallery

2020 – Madras Art Guild Show at VR Mall, Chennai

2020 – Rajasekhar Rao Art Gallery

2020 – Sensation Show at Veta Art Gallery, Chennai

2020 – SoHo VASTERAS International Art Fair, Sweden

2020 – Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, USA

2019 – Autumn Show at Kynkyny Gallery, Bangalore

2019 – Group Show at Apparao Art Gallery

2014 – Group Show at Apparao Art Gallery

2012 – Chronicles at Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

2012 – Regional Art Exhibition, Chennai

2011 – The Big Show at Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore (Curated by Abhishek Poddar)

2011 – Kinetics at Chozhamandal

2009 – Madras Canvas at Forum Gallery

2008 – Group Show at Apparao Art Gallery

2009 – Kinetics Group Show at Chitrakala Parishath

2009 – Group Show at ICON Art Gallery, Hyderabad

2009 – Blue Spade Gallery, Bangalore

2008 – Madras Canvas at Forum Gallery

2008 – Prakriti Art Gallery

2007 – Secret Garden at Apparao Art Gallery, Chennai

2007 – Kinetics Group Show at Lalit Kala Akademi

2007 – Group Show at Apparao Art Gallery

2006 – Kinetics Group Show at Lalit Kala Akademi

2006 – Group Show at Apparao Art Gallery

2005–2006, 2004–2005, 2003–2004 – National Art Exhibition

2004 – Young Artist Show at Artistic Art Gallery

2004 – Annual Art Exhibition at Kanoria Art Centre, Ahmedabad

2003 – National Art Exhibition

1998 – AIFACS Art Exhibition

1998 – National Art Exhibition

1998 – Hyderabad Art Society

1996 – Tamil Nadu Ovia Nun Kalai Kuzhu

1996, 1995 – Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore

1995 – Tamil Nadu Ovia Nun Kalai Kuzhu

1995 – Group Show at Madras Museum

1993 – Tamil Nadu Ovia Nun Kalai Kuzhu

Solo Shows

2018 – One man show at Artistic Art Gallery - Artistic Art Gallery

2013 – One man show at ICON Art Gallery - Apparao Art Gallery, Chennai

2008 – One man show at Apparao Art Gallery, Chennai

2008 – One man show at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi

2007 – One man show at Taj Coromandel, Chennai (by Apparao Art Gallery)

2007 – One man show at Apparao Art Gallery, Chennai

2005 – One man show at Artistic Art Gallery

Sold Artworks

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Glowing Abstractions

Suresh Kumar

Paper on wood

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Crimson Rhythm

Suresh Kumar

Paper on wood-with-polyurethane

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Quantum Quandary

Suresh Kumar

Wood Mixed Media

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Linear Labyrinth

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Wood Mixed Media

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