My name is Pavan Kavitkar, I am an artist and art educator currently based in Nashik, Maharashtra. I obtained my Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir J. J. School of Arts, Mumbai, India in 2014 and Master of Fine Arts from Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, W.B., India in 2017.

My art practice reflects the accumulated clusters of my experience of shifts and changes in the natural and urban space while relocating from one place to another in search of work, home, and artistic identity. In my career, I strive to engage with these observations, experiences and anecdotes and I try to narrate them through a visual story while referring to a combination of visual language I have developed in reference to the characteristics of Indian miniature painting of 17-19 century and the middle-class urban architecture.

Having an affinity for sharing knowledge and experiences, I have also facilitated various workshops on traditional techniques such as wash painting, paper making, drawing in schools and colleges. For me, the process of exchanging ideas and experiences helps me to better understand my own perception and to question it in the context of the current time, space, and situation in which we are living and evolving.