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Amitabh Kumar is a designer/artist from New Delhi. He has graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda and has worked as a part of the Sarai Media Lab (2006 -2010) where he researched and made comics, programmed events, designed books and co-curated an experimental art space. He is visiting faculty to the Srishti School of Art and Design and Technology and is an initiating member of the Delhi based comics ensemble, The Pao Collective.
2006 – Worked as visual advisor and research assistant on the Documentary, “ Masculinity and Moustaches”
2006- Designed and Executed Mural, ‘Dilemma of the Techno hero’ (50 feet x 3 feet) for the Information Society Seminar in the Sarai-CSDS compound.
2007- Conducted workshop in IIT Powai on Tactical Media.
2007- Produced and facilitated ‘Co-mix/Comics’- a 2 day workshop on Comic Book making and production.
2007-08 Conducted a series of ‘Comic Book Reading’s’ in collaboration with the French Embassy.
2007-08 Conducted a 3 part comic book workshop in collaboration with the French Embassy.
2008 Conceived a 7 member panel discussion/exhibition consisting of comic book authors and publishers at the World Book Fair.
2008 Created ‘ Raj Comics for the Hard Headed’, a comic book on the history of Raj Comics based on research in Sarai-CSDS.
2008 Researcher on the Global Heroes Pilot Project, undertaken by the Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
2008 One of the founding members of the Pao Collective- a group of Indian comic book artists,
consisting of Sarnath Banerjee, Orijit Sen, Parismita Singh and Vishwajyoti Ghosh.
2008 Invited as an international artist for the Helsinki Comic Book Festival. This included an exhibition of artworks from ‘Helmet Man in Zamzamabad’( A work in Progress), a lecture/performance on Indian Action Comics and a workshop about the Superhero Comic Book Culture in India.
2009 Co-conceived and Illustrated, ‘Tinker Solder Tap’ a graphic book on the birth and evolution of media piracy in Delhi.
2009 Co Editor and Designer for the 1st PAO Comic Book Anthology of Indian Comics.
2009 Invited as a guest artist for the London- Delhi 2010 – 2012: Artist Lab ( Watermans, London)
2010 Designer for Sarai Reader 08: Fear
2010 Co-Curator and participating artist in the Sarai City as Studio EXB series.
2010 Designer for No Apologies for Interruption (Cybermohalla Ensemble)
2010 Designer for the Water Cookbook (Bhagwati Prasad)
2011 Guest Faculty, Srishti College of Art and Design, Bangalore India.
2011 Participating artist, On The Siddereal (Project conceived and curated by Prayas Abhinav, The Guild Mumbai)
2011 Curator, City as Studio, Sarai-CSDS (Zacheta National Art Gallery, Poland)
2012 Participating artist, Indian Art Fair
2012 Participating artist, Khirkee Mural Project, New Delhi
2012 Designer , City as Studio 2 (Sarai-CSDS)
2012 Participating artist, 2+2=5, Palette Art Gallery
2012 Part of the curatorial team for the Sarai Reader:09 being shown @Devi Art Museum (August)
2012 Participating artist in 3 man show at Lattitude 28. (August)
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Amitabh Kumar
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(b 1984)
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