Biography
After completing his masters from Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda, Rajan Krishnan decided to go back and work from Kerala, his home State. Krishnan's art is very sensitive to his environment. Krishnan uses landscapes or elements from his immediate natural environment as his “principle protagonist” to express his innermost, aesthetic proclivities whether in celebration, homage or protest. His works are often, bleak, fragmentary visions of an ever changing landscape that seems to be an echo of a time which once buzzed with activity.
His international shows include ‘The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today,’ by Saatchi Gallery, London, ‘The Silk Road,’ New Chinese, Indian and Middle Eastern Art, from the Saatchi Gallery London, at Lille3000, France, ‘India: Maximum City,’ Galerie Helene Lamarque, Paris, and ‘Memoir’, Bodhi Art New York besides many group shows and art fairs in India and abroad. He has done solo shows with Kashi Art Gallery (2004), Bombay Art Gallery (2006 &2009), Bodhi Art (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Gallery OED(2008). He has curated ‘Making Art: Let it Happen’ and ‘Earth’ for Gallery OED, Kochi. Krishnan lives and works in Kochi.
