Statement

If you are not good enough, you are not close enough.

Biography

G R IRANNA (born 1970) took an MFA in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi (1994) and was artist in residence at the Wimbledon School of Art, London (1999-2000). Having studied in Bijapur, Gulbarga, and New Delhi, he has always carried with him, his early memories of growing up on a farm with him, and evolved a richly informed appreciation of Virashaiva religious poetry, Adilshahi architecture, and contemporary global art. These varied interests inform his paintings and sculptures, as well as his experiments with the installation form. Since the mid-1990s, Iranna has held 13 solo exhibitions of his work with galleries in New Delhi, Mumbai, London, Munich, Singapore, and Hong Kong, among other cities. He has shown in numerous group shows and been invited to participate in curated exhibitions, including, most recently, �Paths of Progression� (Bodhi Art and Saffronart, New Delhi and Bombay, 2005), �The Human Figure� (curated by Marta Jakimovicz, Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2006), and �Zip Files� (curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Foundation B&G, Bombay, 2009). In 2007, Lund Humphries, London, and Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, collaborated to publish a book on his work, Ranjit Hoskote�s The Dancer on the Horse: The Art of G R Iranna.