Gaurang Naik

Gaurang Naik (b.1996) has completed his Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from Goa College of Art (2019), and completed his Masters of Visual Art in Painting from M.S. University of Baroda (2021). Born and brought up in a village in south Goa, surrounded on one side by the iron ore mining hub and on the other by the ancient capital of Goa. His practice tries to evoke the idea of loss and transience. The collision between humans and nature; the consequences this interaction leaves behind in the form of textures, dust, and scars of traces in the surroundings is what captures his attention.

Recently, he is part of IMMERSE 3.0 Residency + Fellowship for emerging Indian artist at Somaiya Vidyavihar University (2024), SAIL Mentorship Programme for Creative Practitioners at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for The Arts (2022), Students Biennale Workshop – “Unmaking conventions: Location as Resource” by Sanchayan Ghosh (2021). He has also been part of group exhibitions Sunaparanta Goa Centre for The Arts, India Art Fair, New Delhi (2022), HH Art Spaces, Goa (2022-23), 102nd The Art Society of India, Mumbai (2020); ‘Into the Vault’ with Goa Artist Collective at the Museum of Goa (2019). He is also a recipient of the Late Milind Madhukar Bhade Gold Medal, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Vadodara (2022), Gujarat, Batch of 1990 award for best work, Goa College of Art (2019), Late Hanumant B. Neugi Memorial Prize, 44th State Art Exhibition Kala Academy, Goa (2019); Awarded 1st Prize, 43rd State Art Exhibition, Kala Academy, Goa (2018).