• The UmbrellArt Project | Kunel Gaur - Method
  • The UmbrellArt Project | Kunel Gaur - Method
  • The UmbrellArt Project | Kunel Gaur - Method
  • The UmbrellArt Project | Kunel Gaur - Method

The UmbrellArt Project | Kunel Gaur

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Limited edition umbrella by Kunel Gaur for The UmbrellArt Project 2024. 

The UmbrellArt Project is a public arts initiative by Method to add a little colour to the streets of Mumbai, while keeping functional utility in mind. 6 artists have contributed original designs for consumer umbrellas.

For each umbrella you collect, one large garden sized umbrella is provided to an outdoor street vendor to give some shelter from the sun and rains.

ALL ORDERS SHIP POST 15TH JUNE.

Edition of 100 in total. 35 available in this first run, updates will be shared when a second run is announced.

Size & Material

Consumer / Handheld Umbrella : 27" Radius

Garden / Outdoor Umbrella : 54" Radius

Material : Digital print on pongee canopy stitched on a fiber frame with rubber coated handle with grooves for a sturdy and ergonomic grip.

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Kunel Gaur

Kunel Gaur is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves at the intersection of engineered form, visual systems, and contemporary material culture. Rooted in a background in graphic design and architectural sensibility, his work draws from the coded languages of mass production, typography, industrial signage, packaging, mechanical components. and repositions them as sites of emotional, cultural, and perceptual inquiry.

Working across assemblage, interface-based portraiture, sculptural studies, and serial formats, Gaur constructs compositions in which colour, structure, and lived experience meet without fully merging. His works often stage encounters between softness and precision, memory and mechanism, ornament and system, revealing how human presence moves through the designed world.

Gaur’s practice is informed by street visual culture, functional design, Japanese graphic traditions, and the shifting aesthetics of contemporary urban life. Through these influences, he builds a vocabulary that is both exacting and sensorial, exploring the tension between what is felt and what is engineered.

He has exhibited widely across India and internationally, including presentations in New York, Toronto, and multiple solo exhibitions at Method. Gaur continues to expand a visual language that locates meaning within the structures, codes, and material systems that shape modern experience.

  • 2025 - Signs of Life | Solo Exhibition | Method Delhi
  • 2025 - We Were Always Neighbours | Asia Now Paris (w/ Method) | Paris, France
  • 2025 - Cimenti | Solo Exhibition | Abri Mars, New York
  • 2025 - India Art Fair (w/ Method) | New Delhi, India
  • 2024 - Art Mumbai (w/ Method) | Mumbai, India
  • 2024 - Portrait Of A Time (Group Show) | Method Kala Ghoda, Mumbai
  • 2024 - The Other Art Fair | Brooklyn, New York
  • 2024 - Artist Project | Toronto
  • 2024 - India Art Fair (w/ Method) | New Delhi, India
  • 2024 - Typogram® | DesignTO | Toronto
  • 2023 - The Other Art Fair | Brooklyn, New York
  • 2023 - (Systems), India Art Fair | Solo Exhibition | Curated by Method | Stir Gallery, New Delhi, India
  • 2022 - Futur Proche | Mumbai Gallery Weekend | Group Show | Apre Art House
  • 2021 - Information Architecture | Solo Exhibition | Method Kala Ghoda | Mumbai
  • 2020 - Folklores From Future | AGENC Colab | Solo Exhibition | New Delhi

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