About H. A. Anil Kumar

Author, art historian, cartoonist

My Story

H.A. Anil Kumar is an art educationist, art historian, critic, curator, story teller & graphic novelist, teaching and writing on Indian contemporary visual art and films since 1992. He has written, edited and co-authored books, papers and art columns, radio and television talks for both academic and popular publications and radio/television telecasts, in two languages (English and Kannada) since last three decades.

His books include “Nota Pallata” (Kannada, compilation of visual discourses), monographs on artist “T.Vaikuntam” (English). His bilingual (English & Kannada) monographs about visual artists are published from Karnataka Lalitkala Academy that include books about “K.T.Shivaprasad” (1998), “Shankaregowda Bettadoor” (2008) & “Prof.M.S.Nanjunda Rao” (2019). His travelogues about ‘Finland’ (Kannada) and art based travelogue about “Santiniketan” (Kannada) are published (2010) by Mansore, the bird Kannada Film director. He is currently the co-ordinating editor and contributor to ‘Art & Deal’, ‘Travel and Deal’ (Ed: Siddharth Tagore, New Delhi) and www.cartanart.com. He was heading the Department of Art History at College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru. He is also a story writer and handmade graphic novelist.

He holds a degree in Painting (CKP, 1990) and master’s degree in Art History (Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, 1992) and was trained in the Department of Curating Contemporary Arts (Royal College of Arts, London, 2014-15). He has been a keen participant in publicising art through art appreciation programs at Suchitra Film Society (Bengaluru), Suchitra Film Society and Ninasam cultural program at Heggodu.

He is also a story teller and his one line quotes and stories can be read in Instagram@ ‘haanilkumar’.

He is a recipient of: Unesco-Aschberg scholarship (critic-residency at HIAP, Finland, 2004), Charles Wallace India Trust award (attended MA classes in Contemporary Curation at Royal College of Arts, London, 2004-5), Pro Helvetia fellowship (Zurich, 2012); B.C.Sanyal award (‘Dedicated Teacher’ award, from Delhi Collage of Arts, 2013) & “Chanakya Award” for Best Communicator of the year (2017, from PCRI-Public Relations Council of India).

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