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Manish’s work is inspired by a childhood of hardship, social domination, cast discrimination, torture, disease and poverty. His sees his work as the voice of the speechless which he tries to represent in a contemporary way. In life he has struggled to exist within the traditional social boundaries, the discrimination in society and the traditional perspective of cast still dominant in Nepal today, especially within the lives of ‘the untouchables.’


A controversial contemporary Artist in Nepal. He was born in poverty in 1985, in a village in the western Himalayas. After passing his School Leaving Certificate he did an Intermediate Level in Fine Art at the Nepal Fine Art College in Kathmandu. The he did a Bachelor Degree in Fine Art at Kathmandu University. In 2011 or his final show he had a solo exhibition at the Siddhartha ARt Gallery and was then awarded a KCAC scholarship 2011 - 2012. In 2013 he was selected for the Image Art Festival, Occupy Utopia, in Denmark. He is hoping to start a MA in Fine Art at West Dean College in Autumn 2014.

The theme of his work takes is contemporary social issues, social boundaries, social discrimination, and torture and traditional perspective still dominant today. Sometimes by his works creates the social upheaval against to the traditional perspective thinking and torture.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

2007 - 2011 B.F.A., Kathmandu University Centre for Art&Design/Painting

2005 - 2007 Proficiency Certificate, Painting from Lalit Kala Campus


SELECTED WORKSHOPS AND EXHIBITIONS:

2013 - Denmark’s Image Festival - residency

2012 - ‘The Rise of the Collateral’ - Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre

           scholarship and exhibition

2011  - “Graduation show”, BFA solo art exhibition,

              Siddharta Art Gallery, Kathmandu

2011 – Kids in Kathmandu, Sirjana Art College, Kathmandu

2011 – National Art Exhibition, National Association of Fine Arts, Kathmandu

2010 – Saufest Art Workshop, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2010 –  Planet Nepal, Art festival with Alliance Frances,Patan Durbar Square

2009 -  International Art Festival, Separating Myth from Reality, Status of

            women, organised by the Sidhartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu

2009 – Udhaghosh Art Exhibition – Parbat, Nepal,

2009 – Third Rising Group, Workshop, Kathmandu

2009 – World Tobacco Day, Alliance Frances Workshop, Nepal    

2008 – Bagmati Kala Yetra, Workshop, Kathmandu

2007 - “Lalitkala mahotsav” art exhibition, Nepal

2006 - “Third Rising”, group exhibition, Gallery 9, Kathmandu


AWARDS:

2012 – KCAC artist-in-residence scholarship & exhibition, Patan Museum, Patan Nepal

2010 – Commendable Performance Award, Brac University, Dhaka Bangladesh

2010 – Commendable Painting Award, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

©   KCAC 2011 All rights reserved                                                                                                                        UK registered charity 1121118

                                                                                                                          

Work before the KCAC residency

Artists in Kathmandu show their support for Manish and his right to freedom of expression.

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Manish Harijan

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