Pratap Morey is a Mumbai-based artist with post-graduate diploma in
Indian Aesthetics from Mumbai University and graduate degree in Fine
art from Vasai Vikasini College of Visual Arts.
Pratap has lived and worked in Mumbai for the most part of his life &
has been constantly displaced by the city’s shifting façades. He seeks
inspiration from his immediate surroundings, exploring the spatial
existence of its residents and the dualism of a colossal urban sprawl
where vacant spaces are rapidly transformed into formidable structures.
Pratap uses a combination of digital photographic images, archival
prints, architectural drawings and engravings in his intricate paper
works. Each work delves into the overarching themes of construction,
redevelopment and displacement- which are immediate concerns in
a contemporary urban environment. The radical proliferation of urban spaces is an urgency that Pratap’s practice abstracts and presents to the viewer in his version of relief sculpture. The structural elevations in his works are restrained deliberations to amplify and reveal movement and metamorphosis as well as create an illusion of voids. He uses the structural nature of his works as a tool to create space, utilizing formal structures like corners and the three-point perspective to draw the viewer into each of his works.
In the early phase of Pratap’s art practice, he was engaged in drawing self portraits on canvas. While developing compositions
highlighting his own body parts,hair falling over the ear,the flush of colors or stains left over the floor; at one point, he decided to explore camera as a medium of inquiry and a new array opened for him. Initiated by photographing his feet and floor, he eventually started repurposing these photos in photoshop. From here his interest in grid and locale arose. He then began documenting under construction sites of residential complexes, skywalks and redevelopment projects. Over a decade he is engaged in tracing abstraction of displaced placement within the city.
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EDUCATION
2010 Post Graduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics, Mumbai University
2006 Graduate Diploma in Art, Drawing & Painting, Vasai Vikasini College of Visual Arts, Mumbai, India
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Concrete Ciphers – TARQ, Mumbai, India
2017 Lost right Angles – Space Gachang, Deagu, South Korea
2015 Measure | Decipher – TARQ, Mumbai, India
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Spaced Out, Curated by Rahul Kumar, Art Incept, New Delhi, India
2020 Navigating Geometries, Tarq, Mumbai, India
2019 Making Spaces, Curated by Saloni Doshi, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
2018 Under Construction, Curated by Anuj Daga, Khoj International Artist Association, New Delhi, India
2017 Jeonnam International Sumuk Pre-biennale, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Planes of Experience, Zones of Action– Curated by Kaiwan Mehta, Gallery Max Muller Bhavan, Mumbai, India
2016 Imagined futures, Reconstructed pasts– Curated by Meera Menezes, Gallery Anant, New Delhi, India
Red moon song– Curated by Georgina Maddox, Apeejay Art, New Delhi, India
2015 We have some stardust– Niv Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Artists for Nepal– A charity show at Indian Habitat Center, New Delhi, India
The 377191 Wall– Gallery Beyond, Mumbai, India
The Unbearable closeness of being– Gallery Engendered, New Delhi, India
2014 WATCHOUT! – Gallery Art Alive, New Delhi, India
2013 Versatile Thoughts– Percept Art, Mumbai, India
2012 Stop Making Sense– False Ceiling Gallery + Residency, Mumbai, India
@RT Virtually Real– Curated by Georgina Maddox, Art alive Gallery, New Delhi, India
Realities Nouvelles Salon, Paris, France
Group show at Gallery Art Positive, New Delhi, India
VAL, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Vadodara, India
Trends in Contemporary Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Vadodara, India
2011 disORAGANISED– Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
India Art Collective- An online Art Fair, Gallery BMB, Mumbai, India
Movement, Medium & Metaphor- curated by Georgina Maddox, NIV Art Centre, New Delhi, India
2010 Assana, Le sutra, Mumbai, India
2009 Celebrate Bandra Festival, Mumbai, India
Making a Lasting Impression, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai, India
2008 Phases of Matter, Two-man show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2006 Monsoon Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
BIENNALE
2014 Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, USA- Art on Paper 2014
2012 Interstices– Curated by Neelima Jeychandran, Collateral at Kochi Muziris Biennale, India
RESIDENCIES
2017 Space Studios, Vadodara, India
Gachang Art Studio, Deagu, South Korea
2015 Harmony Art Foundation, Mumbai, India
2014 Rashtrapati Bhavan by President of India, New Delhi, India
2013 CRACK International Artist Residency, Kustiya, Bangladesh
Under The Sky Earth Art Projects, Arka Art Trust, Tansa, India
2012 SPACE 118, Mumbai, India
Uttarayan Art Foundation, Vadodara, India
2011 International Artist Residency at NIV Art Centre, New Delhi, India
WORKSHOPS (Academic)
2022 A-Void Workshop at L. S. Raheja School of Architecture, Bandra, Mumbai, India
2022 Contemporary Landscape Workshop at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Byculla, Mumbai, India
COMMISSIONS
2022 Lexus Design Awards, New Delhi, India
2021 Meta Open Art Program, New Delhi, India
ART FAIRS
2020 India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
2018 AD Design exhibition, Mumbai, India
2017 India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
2013 United Art Fair, New Delhi, India
India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
AWARDS
2013 Husain Bendre Scholarship for artist
2012 LaCritique award at Salon Realities Nouvelles, Paris, France
Fellowship for artist by Bajaj Capital Art House, New Delhi, India
2006 The Bombay Art Society Award for Painting
N S Bendre Foundation Award for Painting, 29th Monsoon Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Home & Art magazine by Sotheby's International Realty
2021 Art India
2020 Mid-Day
2019 Art India
2016 Harper's Bazaar
2015 Domus India
CONTACT
+91 9198208 62515
Born in 1981, Amaravati, Maharastra, India
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