Riyas komu biography
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Riyas komu biography
Riyas Komu
Indian Multimedia artist
Riyas Komu[1] is an Indian multimedia artist and curator based in Mumbai. He has invested his time in art education and developing art infrastructure in India.
Komu's works are inspired by social conflicts and political movements and topics like migration and displacement. His hyper-realistic oil portraits of people resemble socialist-realist propaganda art, with one of his portraits titled Why Everybody should Look Like Mao.
In , Komu was one of two artists from India selected for the 52nd Venice Biennale by curator Robert Storr.[2][3] Later, he went on to represent the Iranian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Komu also participated in the Jogja Biennale, Indonesia,
Early life
Riyas completed his Bachelors & Masters in Painting from the Sir J.
J. School of Art in Mumbai in He is the Ideator of Kochi- Muziris Biennale and co-founder of Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foundation that established in He co-cu