Chandrashekar Koteshwar completed his BFA in sculpture from CAVA, University of Mysore in 2007and MFA in Museology from FFA, M.S. University of Baroda in 2009. He has had two solo shows in the year 2018 at Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai titled “Unidentified II’ Things about Replica “and “Unidentified” Exhibition of Sculptures & Paintings, at Knots Experimental Art Space, Baroda in 2015. He has also got Merit Award for Gujarat State in the category of Sculpture (Kalanand Art Contest) (2017); has been included in group shows such as ‘Timeless in Bronze’ Exhibition of sculptures- at Bihar Museum, Patna (2026), INDIA ART FAIR - Gallery Dotwalk, New Delhi,(2026,2025&2023), LAIN MACAM 2025, The National Art Gallery Langkawi, Malaysia.(2025), Voir Dire II -a group show at Anupa Mehta Contemporary, Mumbai.(2025), ‘ART SOIREE’ Stonex Refinery Kishangarh, Rajasthan.(2025), ‘Siren’s Lullaby in a forgotten realm’ at Chitramayee state gallery of art Hyderabad.(2024), ‘Luminous Reveries’ at Travancore palace, New Delhi (2024), ‘THINGS ARE VANISHING BEFORE US’ curated by Premjish Achari at Bikaner House, New Delhi(2023), ‘Fault Lines’ Visual symptoms of discordances in Indian history, Curated by V.Divakar at CONFLICTORIUM museum of conflict, Ahmedabad (2023), ‘Transmutations’ curated by Ranjit Hoskote. Art alive Gallery at INDIA ART FAIR (2022), ‘An Unlocated windows of myself’ at Gallery Dotwalk Gurgaon(2022), Artissima Fair ‘HUB INDIA’ Maximum Minimum Curated by Myna Mukherjee & David Quardrio at Turin Italy.(2021), ‘Patterns of Intensity’ curated by Ranjit Hoskote at Art alive Gallery New Delhi (2021); ‘Madhyam’ group exhibition at Shrishti Art Gallery Hyderabad (2021), ‘All Is Not Lost 20:20:20’ curated by Saloni Doshi at Sakshi Gallery Mumbai (2020), ‘Since Time Immemorial’ group exhibition at Gallery OED Kochi (Kochi Muziris Biennale) (2018-19); The 4th Guanlan International Print Biennial, Guanlan Print Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (2013); and Largest contemporary miniature art show of India at La Gallery 360, Museum Bains, Trivandrum (2013;) among others. He was awarded the ‘SHRISHTI AIF GRANT’ -2020 and Shenoy Art Foundation grant- Emerging Artist for the year-2021.
Chandrashekar Koteshwar’s work comprises sculptures and artist-made objects, traverses between certain crucial conceptual questions regarding the restoration, conservation, collection, replicas, display, etc. in the domain of museum. Trained as a sculptor and museologist, Koteshwar’s artistic concerns are not separate from the art historical idioms and through his sculptures and objects, he draws our attention to the crisis in/of the institution of the museum. Besides these, the materiality of his sculptures, which are made mostly in terracotta, invoke the notion of fragility to reveal and question the political, economic, material, and ontological nature of an artefact. Conceptually these inquiries are based on a self-reflexive critical stand towards the methodologies deployed in the disciplines of museology and art history. Therefore, the museum becomes the nucleus around which these critical deliberations revolve. The artist lives and work in Vadodara, Gujarat.