Calling All Gods · Parsons School of Design · 2026Figuring the Edge · Ashvita's · 2025The Impossible Bouquet · Gujral Foundation · 2023The Guernica Project · Volte Art Projects · 2022Artissima · Turin · 2021La petite mort · Sotheby's · 2021Gradient Descent · Nature Morte · 2018Fidelio · Skylight Music Theatre · 2013Calling All Gods · Parsons School of Design · 2026Figuring the Edge · Ashvita's · 2025The Impossible Bouquet · Gujral Foundation · 2023The Guernica Project · Volte Art Projects · 2022Artissima · Turin · 2021La petite mort · Sotheby's · 2021Gradient Descent · Nature Morte · 2018Fidelio · Skylight Music Theatre · 2013

AboutThe record

Where the work has been.

For galleries, collectors and curators. The shows, fairs, commissions and honours, each one tied back to the work it belongs to. The stories are on the other pages. This is the ledger.

The record: Raghava KK

Born 1980, Bengaluru. Lives and works in Bengaluru and New York.

Representation

Ashvita's, Chennai: Exhibitions and art fairs
Volte Art Projects, Dubai: Large-scale projects; the Gulf

Distinctions

Five TED talks. TED2010, TEDGlobal 2011, TEDxSummit 2012, TED2013, TEDMED 2013
National Geographic Emerging Explorer. 2013. The first artist named an Explorer
First Indian artist to launch an NFT at Sotheby's. 2021, Sotheby's New York
Gradient Descent. 2018. Co-curated; artnet: "AI-Generated Art Just Got Its First Mainstream Gallery Show"
Calling All Gods. Solo exhibition, Parsons School of Design, New York, 2026

Solo exhibitions

2026–27, Calling All Gods, Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York. Opens 10 December 2026. Vishwaroopa and La Liberté de Guernica, two paintings at the scale of Picasso’s Guernica, with the seven toys. (Calling All Gods)
2025, Figuring the Edge, Ashvita's, Chennai, Curated by Ashvin E. Rajagopalan. The Edges, shown whole for the first time. (The Edges)
2023, The Impossible Bouquet, The Gujral Foundation, 24 Jor Bagh, New Delhi, 10 to 16 February. With Volte Art Projects; curated by Feroze Gujral. An official collateral event of India Art Fair. The first paintings made by training an AI on my brushstrokes, then training my hand on the AI. (Impossible Bouquet 2.0)
2022, The Guernica Project, Volte Art Projects, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, 3 February to 10 September. Guernica for the Siri-ocene, at the scale of Picasso’s, with a 69-work NFT edition. The painting sold before the show opened. (The Guernica Project)
2021, Catch 'em if you can!, Time & Space Art Gallery, The Guild, Bengaluru, 16 to 30 April. Childhood culture at confrontational scale, painted the year my children moved away. (Catch 'em if you can)
2018, Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans, Artmatr Labs, Chelsea, New York. One figure fed through three Artmatr robots and painted back into by hand. (Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans)
2018, Sublime Machines, Art Musings, Mumbai (Sublime Machines)
2015, Ridiculous Copycats, Jehangir Art Gallery, then Art Musings, Mumbai. Included Guernica 2.0, the earliest painting in the Guernica Project. (The Guernica Project)
2013, That's All Folks!, Art Musings, Mumbai (The History Series)
2011, Exquisite Cadaver, Art Musings, Mumbai (The History Series)
2009–10, Brooklyn Bound R Train, Art Musings, Mumbai. Paintings from my first year living in New York.
2010, Watercolours in Wonderland, Ashvita's, Chennai
2009, The Issues of Chronic Abstraction, Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe. Paintings from Dysfunctional Families.
2008, Drawn & Quartered, Art Musings, Mumbai
2007, Solo exhibition, Carré d'Art, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes, October. A series on tradition against modernity, shown at the museum’s invitation.
2007, Solo exhibition, The Mayor Gallery, Mayfair, London, Curated by Vaishali Thakkar
2007, Not Another Wedding in Goa, Gallery Art Chamber, Goa. Paintings from my own wedding in Goa, staged as an art event.
2007, Venice Suite, Crimson Art Gallery, Bengaluru
2006, Solo exhibition, ARTANA Gallery, Boston
2005, Solo exhibition, Time and Space Art Gallery, Bengaluru
2004, Solo exhibition, The Gallery at the Courtyard, Ashish Balram Nagpal, Mumbai
2004, Atypical Attitudes, Ashvita's, Chennai. Ashvita’s dates my first showing there to 2003.
1998, First solo exhibition, Black Cadillac, Bengaluru, With Renaissance Art Gallery. Made while I was drawing cartoons for newspapers.

Group exhibitions

2026, Contemporary Now, Edition III, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, With Ashvita's
2023, PhotoVogue Festival, BASE Milano, Milan. Strange Genders. (Strange Genders)
2021, EXO-stential, Emami Art, Kolkata. Strange Genders, a model trained on about 2,300 drawings of men and women. (Strange Genders)
2021, NVIDIA AI Art Gallery, GTC 2021, Online. Strange Genders, with a 64/1 talk.
2009–25, Group exhibitions at Art Musings, Art Musings, Mumbai. Loss for Words (2012), Troika (2016), BLACK/white (2017), The 20th (2019), Pilgrims in Space, Time, Identity (2019), Doorways (2020), Melt (2023), Visages (2024), Resonance (2025).
2010, Site of Departure, Source of Arrival, Middlesex County College, Edison, New Jersey, Indo-American Arts Council
2009, Purdah 2.0, Aicon Gallery, New York, Curated by Priyanka Mathew. Paintings from Dysfunctional Families.

Art fairs

2026, India Art Fair, New Delhi, Ashvita's
2026, ART SG, Singapore, Ashvita's
2023, Art Mumbai, Mumbai, Volte Art Projects. The Churning of the Cosmic Oceans.
2023, India Art Fair, New Delhi, Volte Art Projects. Guernica for the Siri-ocene. (The Guernica Project)
2022, Art Dubai, Digital, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, Volte Art Projects. Guernica for the Siri-ocene 3.0 and the first Power Fluff Toys. (Power Fluff Toys)
2021, Artissima, Hub India, Turin, Nature Morte. The Edges, first shown abroad. (The Edges)
2014, Art Stage Singapore, India Platform, Singapore, Art Musings. Curated by Bose Krishnamachari
2009–20, India Art Summit and India Art Fair, New Delhi, Art Musings. 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020.

Curatorial

2018, Gradient Descent, Nature Morte, New Delhi, With 64/1, the collective I co-founded with Karthik Kalyanaraman. Seven artists, among them Memo Akten, Mario Klingemann and Anna Ridler. artnet called it the first mainstream gallery show of AI-generated art. (64/1)
2016, Re/Space, Kstart, Kalaari Capital, Bengaluru. A fifteen-artist residency inside a venture fund, ending in a permanent exhibit. (The Re series)

Commissions and collaborations

2026, Passport, Gallery Gaburro, Milan Fashion Week, Milan, For Ara Lumiere, the Hothur Foundation. With Akkyamma. Shown on 26 September 2026, on the official Milan Fashion Week calendar. (Passport)
2025, Ferrari 296 GT3 art car, With the Nene family. The double-headed tiger, raced in Bahrain, Qatar and Dubai. (Ferrari art car)
2024, Where the Wind Tastes of Forgotten Songs, Travancore Palace, New Delhi, Royal Enfield Social Mission. A walk-in installation on how fragile the Himalayas are. (Royal Enfield)
2019, Future Bets, 64/1. Commissioned by Ashika Capital. A simulated market from 2022 to 2040, played live. (64/1)
2015, SOZO painting machine, New York, With Artmatr. The robot the machine-then-hand paintings came from. (SOZO)
2013, Fidelio, scenic design, Skylight Music Theatre, Milwaukee. Beethoven’s opera staged inside one of my paintings. (Fidelio)
2011, So Beautiful or So What, For Paul Simon. Artwork for the album tour. (Album covers)
2004, School library, Robin Hood Foundation L!brary Initiative, The Bronx, New York, With Pentagram. My first public work in the United States, made in a week with the children. (The library)

Performance

2020–21, Eye Candy, Instagram, With Under25 Studios. Seven oil paintings staged as a performance, each argued from both sides. (Eye Candy)
2005, Anthropomorphism: When Paintings Dance, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose
2003, When Paintings Dance, San Francisco, American India Foundation gala; Velocity Circus
1999, When Paintings Dance, premiere, Taj West End, Bengaluru. Watercolour painted onto dancers, developed at Kamal Haasan’s home. (When Paintings Dance)

Auctions

2021, La petite mort, from The Orgasm Project, Sotheby's, Boundless Space: The Possibilities of Burning Man, New York. Sold for $94,500. The first NFT by an Indian artist at Sotheby’s. (The Orgasm Project)

Honours

2026, GQ Hero, GQ India. GQ Heroes 2026, A Festival of Ideas, Bengaluru. (GQ Heroes)
2021, Lumen Prize, longlist, Futures Award. Strange Genders, with 64/1 and Harshit Agrawal.
2013, National Geographic Emerging Explorer
2011, Kirkus Reviews, Best Book Apps for Kids. Pop-It. (Pop-It)
2010, CNN, “TED2010: Ten fascinating people you’ve never heard of”

Residencies and fellowships

2019, Residency with Artmatr and Eric Fischl, The Hamptons. Where the machine-then-hand painting carried into The Orgasm Project. (SOZO painting machine)
2016, Creator-in-residence, Viacom Lab, New York
2010–20, INK Fellows, helped found it; co-chair. Ten cohorts, more than two hundred fellows. (INK Fellows)

Selected talks

2026, IFP Season 16: Art After the Algorithm & AI, Mehboob Studios, Mumbai. A Power Talk, 25 October 2026.
2026, GQ Heroes: Where the Mind Roams Free, Bengaluru, In conversation with Sanjana Ray, GQ India (GQ Heroes)
2020, Boma Momentum: We Are All Storytellers, Grand Rex, Paris
2014, Nat Geo Live: Coloring Outside the Lines, National Geographic
2013, TEDMED: What Happens Now That I Can Read Your Brainwaves?, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
2013, TED2013: Mona Lisa 2.0, Long Beach (Mona Lisa 2.0)
2012, TEDxSummit: What’s Your 200-Year Plan?, Doha
2011, TEDGlobal: Shake Up Your Story, Edinburgh
2010, TED2010: My 5 Lives as an Artist, Long Beach

What made the work

2021, Tushar’s challenge: a Guernica for now. Became The Guernica Project and La Liberté de Guernica. (How the series made each other)
2020, The lockdown, and a cancelled commission. My first oils, under my brother’s critique: The Figure Series, then The Edges. (How the series made each other)
2019, Training under a master carver in Bali. The Toy Trojan, carved from a single 300-year-old mahogany. (How the series made each other)
2017, Burning Man. The question behind The Orgasm Project, and the god that became Vishwaroopa. (How the series made each other)
2009, Moving to America. Missing India from New York, I began repainting its history: The History Series. (How the series made each other)
2005–15, Ten years in front of Guernica. Repeated visits to Picasso’s painting in Madrid. (How the series made each other)
1998, Cartoons for newspapers. The cartoonist’s line still runs through everything. (How the series made each other)