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Amshu Chukki, Youngest and Inspiring Artist of India and the man behind Space Studio
Amshu Chukki is a bengaluru-based artist who creates work that combines experimental video, photographic prints, painting, and installation art. He contemplates the absurdity of manufactured landscapes and strange locations as she investigates the ideas of reality and fiction in her multimedia artwork.
Amshu is an MS University, Baroda graduate, majored in art while in college. In addition to receiving numerous accolades, Chukki’s artistic career has taken him to the St. Moritz Art Masters Residency Programme in 2014 and the Darling Foundry, India-Québec Residency in 2015.
The Baroda-based Space Studio announced its inaugural Artist’s Grant in 2021, with a focus on production and research in particular. Through an open call, applications were received from artists all around India. An independent, non-profit organization in Baroda called Space Studio supports up-and-coming artists. Space Studio, which Krupa Amin founded in 2008, provides artists with resources and studio space. Through numerous artist residencies and public programmes like exhibitions, workshops, film screenings, and music concerts, Space Studio has supported more than 250 artists over the years.
Amshu explores the dystopian world of man-made sites and artifacts, challenging fundamental ideas about nature and reality while incorporating the narrative structure of filmmaking. His first exhibition, The Tour, debuted in 2017 at Chatterjee & Lal. His work has been displayed over the various venues across the world like Maximum City at ChesaPlanta, Zuoz, St. Moritz Art Masters 2014, in Switzerland, Chatterjee & Lal in Mumbai, India and many more.