Interview with artist Harsha Durugadda

Harsha Durugadda is a multidisciplinary artist based in India.  He received The Arts Family Emerging Artist Award in 2023 for South Asia and won the Rio Tinto Sculpture Award 2017 at Sculpture by the Sea, Australia.

In 2021 Durugadda was part of a Sotheby’s New York contemporary auction in partnership with Burning Man at Boundless Space.

In 2014, the Courtauld Institute of Art invited him to present on Ancient Buddhist Sculpture at the British Museum, London. He received the Andrew Stretton Memorial invitation in 2016Sydney.

Durugadda’s sculptures have been exhibited internationally at Nord Art in Germany, Emergent Art Space in the United States, London, and Sculpture by the Sea in Australia. Durugadda’s artworks are part of major public and private collections including Busselton Australia (Sculpture by the Sea), Bangalore Airport (Terminal 2), RMZ Hyderabad and HMDA , Hyderabad.

He went to JNU New Delhi, and he currently resides in Hyderabad.

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