b. 1971
Alwar Balasubramaniam received his Bachelor’s degree in fine
arts from the Government College of Arts, Chennai, in 1995.
In 1998, he studied printmaking at EPW Edinburgh, UK, followed
by a course at the Universitat fur Angewandte Kunste
in Wien, Austria. He has travelled extensively and exhibited in
France, Spain, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Finland, Norway and
USA. Amongst his solo shows are (In)Between and (In)Visible
at Talwar Gallery, New Delhi, in 2009 and 2007 respectively;
Talwar Gallery, New York (2007); (Desi)re at Talwar Gallery,
New York (2005); Transition and Transformation at the
Fine Arts Museum, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(2005). His participations include Freedom 2008 – Sixty
Years after Indian Independence at the Centre for International
Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata (2008); The Inverted Tree at
Gallery Threshold, New Delhi (2005); Indian Summer at the
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris (2005). The artist lives and works
in Bangalore.