Dilipkumar Kesavan ( Born 1984, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India ) completed his BFA, Painting from College of Fine Arts, Chennai, 2005. His works have been exhibited in group shows in india and abroad at Inko Centre, Chennai, 2024, Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2024, Madras Art Weekend and Lalit kala Academi, Chennai 2024, Apparao Galleries, Chennai, 2024, Apparao Galleries at Bikaner House, New Delhi 2024, Cholamandal Artists Village, 2024, KynKyny Art Gallery, Chennai, 2023 , Gallery Vedha, Chennai, 2022 and 2021, Kadari Art Gallery, Hyderabad 2021, SoHo Vasteras Art Fair, Sweden, 2020, Art Houz Gallery, Chennai 2017, Forum Art Gallery, Chennai, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and State Lalith Kala Akademi, Chennai, 2007 and in solo show at Alliance Francaise, Chennai, 2024.

He has been awarded by Lalit Kala Academy, 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, Studio 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