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Raghava K. K.

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RAGHAVA K.K (B.1980), Raghava KK is an artist who believes that the act of creating artwork can never by totally isolated from himself. He lives in art, transforming his entire world into a channel of creative expression, spanning genres as widely disparate as painting, sculpture, installation, film and performance. Since his first solo exhibition in Bangalore in 2000, Raghava has traveled to and worked in over 19 countries and has held over 40 exhibitions around the world. He is best known for his unique style of creating large watercolour on canvas works with only his hands and feet as tools. Highly acclaimed by the media, critics, celebrities and collectors both in India and abroad, Raghava was the recipient of a prestigious grant from the Robin Hood Foundation, NY in 2004, through which he created a permanent exhibition of his works in the Bronx, New York. In 2005, a grant from the American India Foundation allowed Raghava to premier his performance art piece "Anthropomorphism: When Paintings Dance" in California at an event hosted by iconic art patron Ann Getty. His works have been auctioned by the Queens Museum in New York and by the Indo American Arts Council, in an auction conducted by Christie's New York. In 2007, Raghava exhibited at the Carre d'Art Musee d'Art Contemporain in Nimes, france, where he was also a guest lecturer and visiting artist at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nimes. He lives and works in Bangalore where is working towards upcoming exhibitions at the Lincon Center in New York and a solo exhibition in Hongkong.