Dilipkumar Kesavan India, b. 1984

Dilipkumar Kesavan (B. 1984, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India) completed his BFA, College of Fine Arts, Chennai, 2005. His works have been exhibited in a solo show at Alliance Francaise, Chennai, 2024 and group shows in India and abroad at Inko Centre, Chennai, Bikaner House, New Delhi, Madras Art Weekend, Lalit Kala Akademi, Apparao Galleries, Chennai, Cholamandal Artists Village, 2024, KynKyny Art Gallery, Chennai, 2023, Gallery Veda, Chennai, 2022 and 2021, Kadari Art Gallery, Hyderabad 2021, SoHo Vasteras Art Fair, Sweden, 2020, Art Houz Gallery, Chennai, 2017, Forum Art Gallery, Chennai, 2009, 2008 and 2007 and State Lalith Kala Akademi, Chennai, 2007. He has been awarded by Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, 2003 and has been a recipient of Dakshina Chitra Arts Management Scholarship, Chennai, 2008. Dilip has also been an artist in residency at Cholamandal Artists Village, Chennai, 2025.

Dilipkumar’s work grows from a continuous rhythm, a feeling without end, like patterns that return and shift in form. Shapes emerge from experience: from daily travel, from space, from moments remembered in light and sound. It is a reflection of presence, of seeing his environment in line, texture, rhythm and color. Each layer is a transformation of memory, feeling, and time. He moves through nature not to describe it, but to be with it — to translate it into visual language, into energy that moves, pauses, and breathes.

Dilipkumar Kesavan lives and works in Chennai, India