CV / Bio
Manohar Chiluveru
Artist Statement
My work exists in the space between spontaneity and preconceived ideas and thoughts. The
creation begins spontaneously, travels through daily experiences, memories and meets with the idea
that refers to the age that we are living in. Conversely, my art also begins with an idea,
Metamorphoses into spontaneity travel through the moment-to-moment experience of creation
Which ultimately evolves into a dialogue within mediums and materials and ends up becoming its
Own unique being, thus detaching itself from “my creation” and instead of inviting the viewer to
Interact, experience and participate with the creation or idea.
Manohar Chiluveru
Manohar Chiluveru was born in Warangal in 1970. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in sculpture
from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Fine Arts ( JNTU), Hyderabad and later,
his Master’s degree from the University of Hyderabad in 1992-2000. He was awarded south India,
Best of the Year among three artists, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai. Ministry of Tourism And Culture,
Government Of India from 2000 to 2001 and others
He is known for his large-scale live painting events, sculptures, and public installations, Manohar
Chiluveru’s work addresses questions connected with individual and collective identities, global
connectivity and relational aesthetic. His Collective/ live Painting performance has been presented at
Pune Biennial (India, 2017); Macro Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2017); MAAM Museo
dell’Altro e dell’Altrove (Rome, 2017). Previously, his work has been exhibited at solo and groups.
Among a few are the “Possible Effect” solo show, a collateral event of Kochi-Muziris Biennial (India,
2015); “Personal Structure. Crossing Borders” Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Bembo, group show during
the 56th Venice Biennial (2015); “Amour”, solo show, Alliance Française (Hyderabad, 2014);
“Imagine Earth”, solo exhibition at IAF Indian Art Fair (New Delhi, 2014); “Meta-Matters” solo show
at Salar Jung Museum (Hyderabad, 2013); “Imago Mundi”, group show at Fondazione Querini
Stampalia, as collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennial (2015) Manifesta12 Collateral (2018).
Something Else – Off Biennale Cairo 2018, MACRO ASILO Atelier in 2019, the Others Art Fair 2019.
Manohar Chiluveru was born in 1970 in Warangal, India. His practice ranges from painting to
sculpture, site specific installation, performance and video. The works of Chiluveru explore the
relationship between individual identity, social relationships and, world changes. The loss of social
cohesion is one of the possible effects of the fast social changes, which people are experiencing all
over the world in these years. According to him, his very first artistic influence came from the
Kakatiya temples and gateways in the region of Hyderabad, which were already mentioned in XIII
century by the Venetian traveller Marco Polo in his book Il Milione. The discovery of historical
European Avant-gardist artists of the first part of XX century, such as Pablo Picasso, Alberto
Giacometti and Wassily Kandinsky, played an important role during his artistic training. Although his
painting is direct and spontaneous, Chiluveru consciously tends to explore all the physical
possibilities of paint, using indistinctly different styles and techniques. His site-specific installations
and the life-size figurative sculptures generally explore the relationship between individual identity,
social relationships and, world changes. Like primate cavemen lost on the edge of a transmuting
world, the walking men of Chiluveru remember us the danger of living in a hyper-modernizing world.
Valentina Levy
(Independent curator)
Manohar Chiluveru is an artist and sculptor who has often worked in monumental scale, and
realising projects that are deeply connected to engagement with human conflict and the search for
positive action. In the past, Manohar has worked in El Bruc near Barcelona in 2007-8 where human
figures wrapped in aluminum foil recreates an unusual environment with reference to how humans
are becoming less humans and more like robots.
Lately, he is painting an image in 12 x 30 feet, which relates to the worshipping of the holy tree
(People hang the tree with tree with different things, sometimes even written letters as a form of
devotion and personal pleas to the Goddess, each wrapped in cloth.) It is a very prominent festival in
Telangana at Warangal (the artist’s birth place) and called Sammakka and Sarakka jatara.(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammakka_Saralamma_Jatara) Working in a way that redefines a new
visual experience while relating to roots and notions of place and identity is interesting to the artist.
The new painting series will be a process of self-discovery; he will be looking back, experiencing the
present and imagining the near future. Each canvas located and imagined in different places of the
world, will refer to events and happenings that are globally relevant. Manohar Chiluveru creates a
vast canvas for his art, both literally and symbolically – using it as a channel for creative collaboration
as well as a demonstrative of a globally harmonious change that he wants to ignite.
Lina Vincent
Collaborative Curator
(For on-going project “Odyssey”)
CV
MANOHAR CHILUVERU
Born: September 30, 1970.
Place of birth- Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India
Education
M. F.A. (Print Making) at The Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication at University of
Hyderabad, 1999-2001.
B. F. A. (Sculpture) (Gold Medal at school of Fine Arts,
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, 1991-96.
Others
* Independent art curator (short term) at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, 2007
* Introduction to art curator at Chelsea College of Art and Design, 2007
* Invited as an examiner and paper setter at School of Fine Arts, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological
University.
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Curatorial projects
“Visual Dialogue”
Nine Woman artist group show at MP Birla Millennium Art Gallery London 2007Art Festivals
THE EDGE & BIFLTBA (1st Birmingham International Festival of Live and Time Based Art).
Camps & residency
Bronze casting camp National Lalit Kala Academy Regional centre Chennai,
International Sculpture Symposium at Shilpa Ramam, Hyderabad, 2002
Madras Bronze Casting Camp 1997.
National Lalit Kala Academy Regional centre Madras.
Andhra Pradesh Young Artists Camp 1997.
National Lalita Kala Academy Regional center, Mask Making Workshop, at Tamilnadu Theological
Centre, Madurai, 1999.
Can Serrat Art Centre, El Bruc, Spain in June 2008
Exhibitions
HOPE KOSMOS – at Shrishti Art Gallery -2021
Art Yagnam – 2020 Curated by Lina Vincent
MACRO ASILO Rome Atelier, 2019
The Others Art Fair Turin, Italy – 2019
“In the realm of dreams” al pubblico della Rome Art Week. 2019 at T24 Gallery Space
Curated by Giuditta Elettra Lavinia Nidiaci
Else OFF Biennale Cairo Biennale at Darb1718 Egypt 2018
Spoon & Eggs Race Performance
A Manifesta12 collateral, Art & Connectography. Remapping the Global World through Art. curated
by Rikke Jørgensen and Valentina G. Levy at Palermo, Italy in 2018
BALANCE – Performance at MACRO ASILO Rome, Italy. Curated by Valentina G. Levy – 2018
Odyssey Collective painting Curated by Valentina G. Levy at Macro Testaccio Rome October 8, 2017
Wall Painting at MAAM Museo dell'Altro e dell'Altrove di Metropoliz città meticcia
And a collective wall painting together with the inhabitants of the occupied at museum at Rome –
2017
Pune Biennale 2017 Odyssey opening as part of collateral
Solo Show at Venice – 2015
Kochi Biennale 2015 (collateral)
Venice Biennale (collateral .imago mundi art collection )
India Art Fair – Solo Booth Represented by Shrishti Art Gallery
Solo show at Shrusti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, AP, India. Year 2012
Group show at Allaiance Francias, Hyderabad 2012
Group Show at Shrusti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, AP, India. Year 2011
Solo show at Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad-2010
Solo show Hyderabad International Convention Center – Nov 2009
NYC solo show – Dec 2008
Can Serrat international art center 2008
MP Birla Millennium Art Gallery London 2007
MP Birla Millennium Art Gallery London 2006
Shades and Wood gallery – 2006
Shades and wood gallery 2007
HITEX International trade fair center Hyderabad 2006
Warangal Art and Culture Center 2006
Group show in Alankruta Art Gallery Jan 2006
India international binellane New Delhi (Group stall by Shrusti Gallery) 2005
Solo Show at Shrusti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, AP, India. Year 2004
Two Men Show, Diara Art Gallery, Hyderabad 2003
Solo Show, Shrusti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, 2002.
Group Show, Lakshna Art Gallery, Hyderabad, 2000.
Two Men Show, Allaiance Francias, Hyderabad 2000
Lalith kala Academy, Regional center, Chennai, best of year exhibition 1998.
Hyderabad Art Society, All India Industrial Exhibitions, 1996.
AIFACS, 50 Years of Indian Independence, 1996.
Group Show, Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University, Hyderabad, 1996
Hyderabad Art Society, All India Industrial Exhibitions, 1995.
Hyderabad Art Society, All India Industrial Exhibitions, 1994.
Hyderabad Art Society, All India Industrial Exhibitions, 1993.
Solo Show, Warangal, 1992
Solo Show, Warangal, 1991.
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Awards
Hyderabad art society 1994
Cash Award for 1996, Hyderabad Art Society.
Merit Scholarship for One Year, AIFACS, 50 Years of Independence Day.
State Exhibition Awards (1999), Telugu University, Hyderabad.
One-Year Scholarship for 2000-20001,
National Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.
Collections
APIIC Hyderabad
ADP Hyderabad
Ramky Group of industries in Hyderabad
Warangal art and cultural center
Kakatiya Urban Authority (16" Monumental Sculpture)
Biological E Limited
The Citizen’s Club, Warangal
Andhra Pradesh Tourism and Andhra Pradesh Marketing Committee, Warangal
Alluri College of Management, Warangal
National Lalitha Kala Academy, Regional Center, Chennai
Public Sculpture, Warangal
Public Sculpture, Vijayawada
Various Private Collections
Five prints collected by eminent artist T.Vykuntam
Anju Poddar art collector Hyderabad
Shrusti Art Gallery, Hyderabad.
Samnvai art gallery, Jaipur.
Pandol art gallery Bombay (group portfolio)
Private collections in India and abroad
Travel & Others
Traveled from 2006 to 2009 London, Barcelona, NYC
Sculpture park project 1997 -1998
Largest Painting on Canvas
(Based on the idea of war and climate change)
Title-untitled,
Size: 24.7 X 67.7 feet
Medium: Acrylics on canvas
The painting featured in Limca Book of Records, 2003.
International Travel Event and Exhibition
Title: Senses – Enigmatic Senses – Crossings
ODYSSEY 24 cities travel Art & Book project part -1 2017 to 2024
Address
Manohar Chiluveru
9394103223
House no 61 Road number 3
Map of Rd Number 3, Prashasan Nagar, Jubilee Hills,
Hyderabad, Telangana 500033
manohararthouse@gmail.com