Dance With Snake, 2023

Aman Kumar’s (b. 1999) practice unfolds at the intersection of political critique, dark satire, and the macabre, using painting as a site to confront the violence embedded in systems of power. His works frequently engage with the politics of land, water, and survival, where control over natural resources becomes inseparable from domination, extraction, and erasure. Through densely populated, often unsettling compositions, Kumar reflects on ecological collapse, social alienation, and the psychological drought produced by relentless human intervention. By employing ironic and grotesque imagery, Kumar constructs visual narratives that are at once mournful and incisive, exposing a world where love, lust, ritual, and violence coexist in uneasy equilibrium, and where the absurdity of human excess becomes both tragic and satirical.

Kumar studied Painting at the Government College of Art and Design, Aurangabad, completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2021, and later earned a Master of Visual Arts in Painting from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru, in 2023. His work has been presented in group exhibitions such as ABIR First Take 2023 at L&P Hutheesing Visual Art Centre, Ahmedabad; Mapping Representational Space, at Rangoli Metro Art Center, Bengaluru (2023); and IMAGINARIUM 5.0 at Emami Art Center (2025). He has also participated in the Kala Sakshi Memorial Trust Scholarship Workshop at Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi (2022). Aman Kumar currently lives and works in Chennai.