Native name ರೇಣುಕಾ ಕೆಸರಮಡು Nationality Indian | Full Name Renukamma K C Education KEN School of Art | |
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Born 1957 (age 59–60) Tumakuru, Karnataka, India Known for Painting, Drawing, Sculpture Awards All India Art Competition – Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath1993Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal1987, 1988, 1989All India Art Competition – Mysore Dasara1992 Elected Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy Alma maters Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore University, Annamalai University Similar Sheela Gowda, Rukmini Varma, Ashwini Bhat | ||
Renuka Kesaramadu is a contemporary painter and sculptor from India. She is best known internationally through her collaborative art exhibitions and participations in workshops in Europe. She has also curated a few international art symposia and exhibitions in India.
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Education and career
Renuka was born in 1957 in the village of Kesaramadu, whence her last name was adopted, near the city of Tumakuru in Tumakuru District in the Indian state Karnataka.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Art History from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath - Bengaluru, Master of Arts (MA) in History from Annamalai University - Chennai and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) from Bangalore University. She also obtained a Government Diploma (GD) in Painting with 1st Rank for 5 years and Gold Medal from the KEN School of Art - Bengaluru under the instruction of the legendary artist R M Hadapad.
She served as a member of the Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy (KLA) in Bangalore from 1995 to 1998 under the directorship of C Chandrashekhar. She worked full-time as a lecturer and Art Instructor for students seeking a Diploma in Education (DEd) at Sree Siddaganga College of Education under Sree Siddaganga Education Society in Tumkur. She also taught art history as a guest faculty in Tumkur University.
Awards
Renuka is a recipient of several awards at national art competitions in India and numerous local awards for her art, along with a few awards for her service.
Solo exhibitions
Renuka's works have been exhibited in several solo art shows in Europe and India.
Group exhibitions and camps
Renuka has been a part of over 50 group exhibitions in Europe, India and several countries elsewhere.
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2009
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1980s/1990s
Reviews
"Renuka Kesaramadu has created a series of works in which the reality of the country of Sormano and its atmosphere are depicted carefully. Take shape on her canvases do the cobbled paths, the profiles of the mountains, the houses, the church, the beautiful young women who accompanied the artist showing and explaining, in English of course, aspects and particularities of the country. A country that, despite the dominance of gray, has its aspects of preciousness that the artist emphasizes through the use of the color gold. The same country that, in one of her works, is dotted with gold and wrapped in a loved symbology of white flowers, made using crumpled tissue paper and glued on the canvas." [Translation]
- Antonella Prota Giurleo, August 9, 2009, Sormano, Italy
"Modernist sources: The four mid-generation painters recently at Renaissance [Gallery] are preoccupied with different subjects whose graceful but conventional range corresponds to their somewhat old-fashioned aesthetic languages, and binds them. This perhaps can be associated with the artists’ roots in Karnataka’s provincial educational institutions. To varying degrees and in varying ways, all of them relay on the indigenized, Modernism-derived combination of abstract elements, stylized figures and patterned design. These ingredients are softer and more abstract in Renuka Kesaramadu’s dynamic evocations of human hands reaching out over distances of the globe..."
- Marta Jakimowicz, art critic and writer, Deccan Herald Online, August 9, 2009, Bangalore, India
"The eye theme has been successfully exploited by a Karnataka artist, Renuka Kesaramadu. It is the eye that sees, understands, starts off communication, determines human relations."
- Arkay, at the Bajaj Art Gallery, 1997, Mumbai, India
Personal life
Renuka Kesaramadu lives in Tumakuru in India with her husband, while her works are commissioned through art galleries in Bengaluru. Her husband B S Mallikarjuna is a retired educator, musician and theater/television actor in the Indian language Kannada. Her daughter Davana is an architect and business developer who works in Bengaluru and in United Kingdom. Her son Trishul is an audio software engineer and music technologist in San Francisco, USA.