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Born in 1964, Atul Bhalla completed his bachelor’s in fine arts from the College of Art, University of Delhi, and his master’s in fine arts from the School of Art, Northern Illinois University, USA. He is presently a professor of visual art at Shiv Nadar University in India.
Atul Bhalla: Contemporary Landscape and the Depths of the Historical Field. by Kathleen L Wyma. Created in 2014, Atul Bhalla's Contestation I captures the topographical expanse of a South African savannah as it stretches towards a distant horizon.
Atul Bhalla’s body of work documents the experience of water – from the perspective of the element itself, in the shapes and forms within which it is contained, and also from the viewers’ perspective, where it is sometimes considered pure and holy, and at other times, polluted and stagnant.
Motivated by the search for social and environmental inquiries through an oeuvre that incorporates sculpture, painting, installation, video, photography and performance, Atul Bhalla has for decades explored the physical, historical and political significance of materials and materiality in urban-impact environments.
Atul Bhalla has explored the physical, historical, and political significance of water in the urban environment of New Delhi through artworks that incorporate sculpture, painting, installation, video, photography, and performance.
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- Shiv Nadar University
Atul Bhalla was born in 1964 in New Delhi. He frequently combines photography, installation, sculpture, video, painting and performance to question the human relationship with the natural and constructed environment. Bhalla’s prolific and diverse activity is not limited to the creation of artwork.
