Ravi Agarwal

BIOGRAPHY

Ravi Agarwal has a long standing inter-disciplinary practice as a photographer, artist, environmental campaigner, writer, and curator. Bridging the divide between art and activism he addresses the entangled questions of nature and its futures using photography, video, text, installation, and printmaking. His work ranges from the long documentary to the conceptual and performative and he has regularly published photobooks and diaries.

In 2017, Agarwal undertook a research residency in the Scottish Highlands supported by the John Muir Trust to inform a print studio residency at Edinburgh Printmakers. As part of his research, Agarwal considered the various pressures and challenges posed to nature in Scotland and India and community efforts for re-wilding, as well as the ongoing various multidisciplinary conversations to rethink urban sustainability as part of a larger ecospace. His residency culminated in the exhibition Nàdar/Prakriti in 2018, the artist’s first UK solo show, at Edinburgh Printmakers as part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

Ravi Agarwal has shown work internationally including at the Yinchuan Biennial (2018), Kochi Biennial (2016), and the Sharjah Biennial (2013) amongst others.