Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

ANANDA KRISHNAN S K

Assistant Professor


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Ananda Krishnan S K is an artist/ researcher born in Kerala. He has obtained Ph. D in Design from IIT Hyderabad and MFA in painting from University of Hyderabad. His works ranges from painting, Photography and Installation and his works deals with the idea of homeland and the inherent violence in imagining it. His practice is a dialogue with his own times and its socio political conditions. Cartography and cues from the cyber world are used as a conceptual and visual framework in his works that critically engage with the discourse on homeland. 

 

  • Ph.D in Design from IIT Hyderabad, MFA in Painting from S N School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, BFA in painting from RRVCFA, Kerala

  • Assistant professor in painting at Raja Ravi Varma Centre of Excellence for Visual Arts, University of Kerala (2022- 24).

  • Home and homeland in visual art, history of cartography, homeland and violence, art practice as research in academia, history of art, art practice and its methods, process based interactive art installations.

  •  Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award (Canada) (2012).

  • ‘Reimagining the Home/ Homeland: An artistic Inquiry’ - Visual essay, ‘EPW Engage’, 2021.

  • Book Review: Painting Stories: Lives and Legacies from an Indian Crafts Village. Contemporary South Asia, Volume 31, Issue- 2, 2023 (Scopus).
  • Mapping the Fall of a Dome and Last Supper on the Streets: An Artist’s Dialogue with His Times. International Journal of Design and Allied Sciences (IJDAS), Vol. 2, Issue- 1, 2023 Google scholar).
  • ‘Research Through Art Practice – History, Relevance and Challenges’, Kalakalpa Journal of Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, 2018

  • International Convention of Asia Scholars 11(ICAS 11), Leiden, Netherlands, 2019.
  • Inequality and Plurality: Contemporary Challenges to Democracy, School of Distance Education, University of Kerala, 25th to 27th March 2022. Presentation title: Mapping Violence in Homeland: An Artist’s Inquiry.
  • Artist’s Talk at Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine arts, 2022.