Sameer Kulavoor’s (b.1983) practice emerges from a way of seeing and decoding his surroundings, translating impressions into imaginative and intuitive forms and compositions. His works are ruminations on the ever-changing metropolis and what it means to exist in it, capturing its ephemerality, idiosyncrasies and multiplicity, much of which often goes unnoticed, unrecorded or undocumented. With over two decades in art and design, Kulavoor has found himself drawn to investigating patterns, peculiarities and anomalies in our complex landscape. This play with colours, textures, compositions and forms defamiliarize the viewer of the mundane, drifting through a sense of abstraction and imagination. Veiled behind his playful compositions lies a sincere reflection on urban life and the impact of time, culture, politics, and socio-economic conditions on our built environment. Kulavoor rigorously experiments with various ways of making and outlets, including paintings, drawings, animation films, printmaking, zines, murals, and public art projects.

Kulavoor’s work is held in notable collections such as M+, KADIST, Bangalore International Airport Ltd., and Bloomberg. He also contributed as a visiting Faculty of Architecture at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, in 2024. Kulavoor currently lives and practices out of Mumbai, India.

He is represented in India by TARQ Mumbai.

SELECT PRESENTATIONS

SOLO

2025 Limits Of The Town… – Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India
2023 Edifice Complex – TARQ, Mumbai, India
2020 You are all caught up – TARQ, Mumbai, India.
2018 A man of the crowd – TARQ, Mumbai, India.
2016 Please have a seat – Serigraphs at Artisans’, Kalaghoda, Mumbai, India.
2012 The Ghoda Cycle Project – Bicycle Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland.

GROUP

2025 The Artist As – curated by Vaidehi Gohil and Sonakshi Bhandari, TARQ, Mumbai.
2025 Bambai se aaya mera dost – Method, New Delhi.
2024 World, But No Home – curated by Kaiwan Mehta, TARQ, Mumbai.
2024 The People of Mumbai, The CSMVS Gallery, Mumbai.
2024 Blue – curated by Nitesh Mohanty and Riyas Komu, The Guild, Alibag.
2023 Who are these outsiders?, Gallery XXL, Delhi.
2023 Metromorphosis – Mumbai Urban Art Festival by St+Art India, Mumbai, India.
2022 India Art Fair, TARQ booth, Delhi, India.
2022 Event, Memory, Metaphor – TARQ, Mumbai, India.
2021 State of Mind : Between Dysphoria and Hope – Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India.
2021 Lokame Tharavadu – Alappuzha, Kerala, India.
2020 Resurgence – (online) TARQ, Mumbai, India.
2020 India Art Fair, TARQ booth, Delhi, India.
2019 SqW:Lab Fellowship Closing Exhibition – Mumbai, India.
2019 The Shifting City – Gallery MMB, Goethe Institut, Mumbai, India.
2019 India Art Fair, TARQ booth, Delhi, India.
2017 Parfum Sassoon – Sassoon Dock Art Project by St+Art India, Mumbai, India.
2013 Faith – Lokal Helsinki, Finland.
2010 Ten artists and a fort – FILTER, Mumbai, India.

PUBLIC ART/MURALS

2025 SURFACE. TENSION., Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport, Terminal 2, Bangalore, India,
2021 Emergence, The Show Windows, Coventry, UK.
2021 Lokame Tharavadu – Alappuzha beach stage, Kerala, India.
2021 Mumbai 400001 – Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai.
2019 Social Media Friendly Plants – St+Art India, Lodhi colony, Delhi, India.
2017 High Five – Artisans’ Kalaghoda, Mumbai, India.
2014 The Great North Road Mural, Zoomslide, Auckland, New Zealand.

CURATION & SELF-PUBLISHING

2023 EVERYDAYINDIA – Graphic Design and multiplicity from gullies to high streets – Research, show curation and book design with Zeenat Kulavoor. A BARO Market presentation at 47-A Design Gallery, Mumbai.
2020 EverydayZine – a series of zines that broadly looks at ‘everyday’ from different perspectives. In an effort to explore new formats of art books and storytelling, each volume is an experiment created using images and words by an artist and a writer. Curation and design collaboration with Zeenat Kulavoor & Phalguni Desai.
2010 Hundred Percent Zine (100%ZINE) Concept and Curation with Lokesh Karekar.