1976
Overview
V.G.Venugopal works centre around the environmental impact of urbanism on city dwellers and investigates ideas of identity, belonging and displacement. He holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Chitrakala Institute of Advanced Studies, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore and a BFA in Painting from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts (CAVA), University of Mysore. Solo exhibitions of the artist's works include Factual Fictions, Gallery Veda, Chennai 2016, Monologues, Gallery Blue Spade, Bangalore, 2010. Venugopal has participated in numerous group shows including Reimagining: (Un)Reality and Space, YepArt, Bangalore; Art One at Avani, Calicut, Kerala, 2016; The Print Spotlight 2, Gallery 545, Bangalore, 2013; Between the Lines – Identity, Place and Power, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore and Mumbai, 2013. He has been a recipient of the National Lalit Kala Akademi Scholarship, New Delhi, 2000-01; and the National Scholarship, Department of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi, 2002.
