Raghavendra Rao K.V. is a multidisciplinary, practicing visual artist originally from Bangalore, India, and currently living and working on Bowen Island, BC. His practice integrates public art, multi-media work, painting and graphic design. He has taught at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, in Bangalore, India for over 15 years.
He has facilitated and coordinated numerous multi-disciplinary arts projects that were a part of international exhibitions including Ars Electronica, at Linz, Austria in 2005 and ‘Bombaysers’ at Lille, France in 2006.
He has taken part in numerous international art residencies and exhibitions in Switzerland, Scotland, Mautitius and India to name a few. His last project Dissenting Views/ Viewing Dissent and was awarded Canada Council for the Arts grant in 2021-22 following a solo show at the Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island in 2023. His present project Disability and Healing Landscapes has received Canada Council for the Arts grant under the category Explore and Create Concept to Realization for the year 2025.
Residencies
Global WARming: Fight For a Decent World – International Artist Residency, Mauritius – 2023
Participating artist and Artistic Lead, Partition and memory – Creative Interruptions art residency, Preet Nagar Residency, Punjab, India - 2018
Ten Years Ten Artists’ – Art Residency at Gasteatelier Krone, Aarau, Switzerland – 2005
PARTage – Juried International Artists’ Residency, Mauritius - 2004
Residency by invitation, Gasteatelier Krone Aarau, Switzerland – 1997
Awards
Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create; Concept to Realization grant for the project Disability and Healing Landscape - 2025.
Canada Council for the Arts Research & Creation grant for the project Dissenting Views/ Viewing Dissents – 2022-23.
1st Prize, Memento Mori, Surrey Art Gallery, BC, Canada — 2016
Inlaks Fine Arts Award to explore art in India, 1993-95