• 1981 Diploma in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Kishore Shinde born in 1958 is established contemporary artist. He is a prominent ABSTRACT painter. In the words of the artist, an artist can find inspiration to paint in almost anything, sometimes he simplifies the world around him, and at times he finds the complexities in things around him motivating. It is his eternal quest to find a visual language that expresses his thoughts, his feelings.
Kishore Shinde is on a quest to find a visual language that reverberates with an energy that signifies the ethereal.
Fascinated by industrial imagery and the bustle and chaos of the streets: his brushstrokes don’t simply layer paint, they also layer memory, accretions of experiences, paths trodden and lesson learnt. Kishore Shinde’s works seem to say that there is light at the end of the tunnel and while some of it has filtered through his journey is far from done.
Shinde's canvases are is playground of free spirited application of paint laden with an emotive context. Though seemingly unplanned the artist is conscious and specific of the colors he chooses to let loose in his works, "The paint packed in the factory is detached – away from human emotions. But, while becoming a painting it goes through a process of attachment, taking life from the artist to live its own." The heavily textured and layered canvases are structured to a visual trajectory which speaks a language of non figurative symbols.
He has received India's most prestigious award in visual arts, National Academy Award by the Lalit Kala Akademi, amongst several other recognitions and awards in India. Shinde's artworks have been exhibited at leading galleries in Germany and India, Singapore, and other Asian countries.
"While standing in front of the white canvas space, the inner eye opens. As my body responds, abstract versions of rhythm, builds visual syllables and symbols. This in turn renders meanings in nonfigurative modes. Myriad colors fill the spaces. I am painting in a cathartic fervor."
- By Kishore Shinde
