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Svabhu Kohli is an independent visual storyteller inspired by the natural world and its connection to people. Their work thrives at the intersection of magical realism, visual storytelling, and fostering communal ties by engaging/creating shared experiences through art. Kohli's projects often encourage collective participation and dialogue, aiming to build a deeper sense of community and our relationship to the surrounding environment.
Kohli's art practice finds its roots in curiosities for Indigenous, political, and scientific narratives that shape our collective/personal imagination and relationship to the natural world. Their work involves researching and studying complex ecosystems, learning from mystics, native communities, shamans and healers, naturalists, scientists and observers of our surroundings - layering diverse perspectives of memory, knowledge, myth and fantasy into their visual language of our changing planet and its relationship to our bodies, minds and landscapes.
Their work finds form in large-scale murals, illustration, design, sculpture, installation, photography and film. Kohli’s illustrations have been featured in children's book publications by Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Levine Querido Publication and Harper Collins. Their research-based works have been featured through exhibitions, commissions, and platforms across the world such as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS Museum), Meta Open Arts, Google Arts & Culture, London Edition, Science Gallery Bangalore, Serendipity Arts Festival, Aziz Premji University, Sussex Contemporary Illustrations & Printmakers, Google Doodle, St+Art India Foundation, Current Conservation, Sanctuary Asia, PangeaSeed Foundation, Mongabay India, Hudson Valley Seed Library, Echoes of Earth Festival and Technology for Wildlife among others.
Kohli is also part of the Art Direction/Communication core teams at Amche Mollem, a citizen movement actively engaging in art and science collaborations to encourage community participation, learning tools, self-organisation and policy change to protect Goa's largest forest region, part of the eco-sensitive and biodiversity hotspot of the Western Ghats in India.
For queries/collaborations, you can reach them at svabhukohli@gmail.com
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Books:
When They See Us, Candlewick Press | Tentative Release: 2024
Desert Queen, Levine Querido | Upcoming Release: 2023
Tales of India, Chronicle Books 2018
Residencies:
La Wayaka Current - Atacama Desert, Chile 2023
Meta Open Arts Residency. Mumbai, India 2022
International Design Camp, Designing Positive Behavioural Change - Kolding, Denmark 2012
Exhibits:
> Carbon - Science Gallery - Bangalore, India 2024
> El Encuentro - La Wayaka Current, La Yareta - San Pedro De Atacama, Chile 2023
> Art of Seed exhibition - Hudson Seed Library x Philadephia Flower Show. Philadelphia, USA 2023
> BiodiverCity - Purpose Labs, Ministry of Magic x Echoes Of The Earth. Mumbai, India 2023
> The Case Of The Missing Species - Amche Mollem. Serendipity Arts Festival. Goa, India 2022
> The Beacon Show, SCIP - Sussex Contemporary Illustrators & Printmakers (SCIP).
Sussex United Kingdom 2022
> Art Resilience - Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment, COP26. Glasgow, Scotland 2021
> St+Art Goa / Serendipity Arts Festival. Goa, India 2019
> Hoppy Art Land. Tokyo, Japan 2019
> The Earth Issue x The London Edition: Earth Week Festival. London, 2019
> Graphic Content - Gallery Ark. Baroda, India 2019
> Indianama - Animal. New Delhi, 2018
> Artreach Festival - Artreach India x Bikaner House New Delhi, India 2017
> All Or Nothing - Tedx Artist Collective. Bangalore, India 2015
> Cut Out The Darkness, The Luminary Zoo - Panasonic x Tokyo Behance Japan Community 2014
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Google Doodle
The London Edition
The Guardian
Current Conservation
Mongabay India
Euro News
The Wall Street Journal
Brown Paper Bag
My Modern Met
Platform Magazine
Illusion - Scene 360 Magazine
Scene 360 Magazine
The Earth Issue
Cathay Pacific
Design Fabric
GQ
Tedx Artist Collective
Google Art & Culture
Kerosene Digital
Buzzfeed
Koovs
The Art of Animation
Studio Dope
Homegrown
The Better India