Dipesh Raj

Dipesh Raj is a multi-disciplinary, mixed media artist originally from Jharkhand. He received his BFA from Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi (2020), and also has a diploma in photography from Light & Shadow, Kolkata (2015). His work has appeared in group shows across India, and in 2020, he was selected for the 1st International Creative Drawing Exchange Program presented by Gallery Artoz. In the words of the artist: “Our personal identity is a matter of our psychological continuity. Our existence is founded on our consciousness and there is nothing else that affects it.” With this philosophy, Dipesh engages in a journey of self-introspection. He is fascinated with what his mind decides to administer and what it relinquishes. In an attempt to understand his own self better, he pours his soul out on anything that epitomizes his memories. His aim is to build a bridge between his past and present, in order to coalesce himself towards an intuit future. Most of his works have several different symbolic images woven into a single environment. Semi-abstract and with highly original themes depicted in the story -telling, Dipesh tries to bridge the gap between childhood memories. He uses drawing as a way of capturing an idea and a means of remembering, associating layering thoughts. His treatment of work shows overlapping, distortion, fragmentation, symbolism more stylized that have considerable impact.