THAMSHANGPHA MAKU India, b. 1999

Thamsangpha Maku (b. 1999, Chandel, Manipur, India) completed his BFA in Painting from College of Art, New Delhi, 2020 and MVA in Painting from Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, 2022. He has participated in various group shows across India at Radiance Art Gallery, Gurugram, 2021, Art 105, Chandigarh, 2022, Anant Art Gallery, Noida, 2022, MASH India in partnership with Khoj, Delhi, 2022, and Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2022. 

Additionally, he was also a fellow at Immerse 2023, Somaiya Vidyavihar University, powered by Carpe Arte, Young Art Support, and Shaleen Wadhwana, Mumbai, 2022 and completed a residency at Priyasri Art Studio, Vadodara, 2022. He is currently doing an artist’s residency under Natraj Sharma.

Thamsangpha’s work is informed by the forms, themes, and iconography found in Naga tribal culture, which mostly developed as a result of observing native flora and fauna. His artistic approach has been guided by the notion of estrangement inside one’s own nation from the periphery and encountered experience at the nation’s centre, as well as occurrences and formations of tribal cultural practices of “creating” against the given existing  discriminations.

Thamsangpha lives and works in Vadodara, Gujarat, India.