HARSHH KUMAR

Harshh Kumar (b. 1997, Delhi, India) is a visual artist living and working in Delhi. He holds an MFA from Central University of Himachal Pradesh and a BFA from Amity University. His work has been exhibited at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, and MF Husain Art Gallery, among others. He was awarded the Amar Nath Sehgal Young Artist Program grant in 2022 and has participated in several residencies and collaborative projects. His multidisciplinary practice engages with themes of identity, memory, and the intersection of public and private spaces.

His approach finds its roots in lyrical abstraction, prioritising gesture over geometry and emotion above form. For him, painting turns into a spontaneous, tactile, uncensored dance. His compositions tend to be dominated by black and white, standing for both complexity and clarity. Each hue is a representation of the remnants of an emotion, location or echo of a memory; he uses colours to communicate instead of adorn. His pieces focus on the senses rather than the visible.

Harshh’s art, at its core, is a mirror of the ego conversing with the outside world. To him, art started with "me"—his feelings, his subconscious, and the way he would use space and line. From this, it has kept evolving into something collective, where abstraction serves as a language for the unimaginable and nature as a metaphor. His art provides a silent resistance—an invitation to feel, to inquire, and just to be—in a noisy environment.