R. Gopakumar (Kerala, India) is an Indian contemporary multidisciplinary artist, curator and India's first major digital art collector, living and working in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
His practice moves across digital art, motion photography, installation, drawing, painting and print, exploring the intersections of technology, nature and society.
Working across traditional and emerging media, Gopakumar uses art and technology to engage with environmental, social and political questions. His practice brings together image, movement, experimentation and the changing language of digital culture. For more than twenty-five years, the Kingdom of Bahrain has been his home and creative space.
“I believe that the work of art should transform our visual, intellectual, and aesthetic sensibilities while also exploring new visual phenomena.”
His ongoing explorations include digital image-making, motion, material, memory and the natural world. Recent projects investigate generative systems, the relationship between human intention and computational processes, and the possibilities of post-digital artistic practice.
Exhibitions & International Projects
- 2026 — Techspressionism: New Visual Languages, Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris, France.
- 2026 — The Walk Series showcased on NewArtX, a curated global platform for Digital Fine Art.
- 2026 — Content Partner with Liquid Canvas; digital artworks available on global screens including Apple TV+, Fire TV, Samsung, LG and Roku.
- 2026 — Art and Poetry Contest, “A Celebration of Creativity, Heritage and Healing”, 11th Founding Anniversary of the State of Birland, Bir Tawil, Africa.
- 2026 — Sedition Studio, recurring digital exhibition, art’otel London Hoxton.
- 2026 — “Hello Uzbekistan!” Techspressionism Digital Art Video Exhibition, Samarkand and Qarshi, US Embassy / The American Corner.
- 2025 — Sedition Art Curated Artist Section, featuring works by internationally recognised contemporary artists.
- 2025–2026 — The Wrong Biennale, Alicante, Spain. Projects: Prayers to AI – Chapter One, Low CFG Project and Metatopia.
- 2025 — “Hello Uzbekistan!” Techspressionism, Museum of Contemporary Art (CAMUZ), Urgench, Uzbekistan.
- 2025 — Art for Peace and Nonviolence, KASS Charitable Trust, Kochi, Kerala, India.
- 2025 — “Hello, Chelsea!” Techspressionism, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, USA.
- 2024 — MoCA L.I.ghts 2024, Museum of Contemporary Arts (MoCA L.I.), Long Island, New York, USA.
- 2024 — Wild and Newfangled Techspressionism, Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (MOWNA), New York, USA.
- 2024 — “Hello Brooklyn!”, Techspressionism, Kingsborough Art Museum, New York, USA.
- 2023–2024 — The Wrong Biennale, Cyberiana Pavilion, Alicante, Spain.
- 2021 — CADAF Crypto and Digital Art Fair, Paris, France.
- 2021 — Visual Artists Association Art Exhibition, London, UK.
- 2021 — V-Art Digital Art Spaceship Exhibition, Ukraine.
- 2020 — Art Workshop and Exhibition, 151st birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India.
- 2020 — Monsoon Art Fest, Kerala, India.
- 2020 — Muse India Online Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India.
- 2019 — 3rd Art Quake Kyoto Creativity Biennale, Japan.
- 2019 — Objectified, CICA Museum, South Korea.
- 2016 — Art Rise Savannah’s Art Festival, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
- 2016 — Alert Not Alarm – Unpresentable in Presentation, Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Kochi, Kerala, India.
- 2015 — Vastu – Dialogues on Post-Performance Object, Nanappa Art Gallery, Kochi, Kerala, India.
- 2015 — Sofia Underground – International Performance Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 2014 — Saatchi Gallery, London, UK – The Motion Photography Prize Exhibition.
- 2014 — Tate Britain, UK – Source Spotlight Light Display, Texture & Collage Exhibition.
- 2014 — Critical Juncture, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India (Exhibition and Residency).
- 2014 — Cesar Garcia Curated Art Collection, Saatchi Art Online.
- 2014 — The Power of Art, Tune Bibliotek, Sarpsborg, Norway.
- 2013 — Colours – Peace & Solidarity, Årjängs Bibliotek / Galleri Passagen, Sweden.
- 2012 — Art Meets Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Poetry Exhibition, Arte Città Amica, Torino, Italy.
- 2012 — Immagine & Poesia, Beausoleil: Gianpiero Actis and friends of the Movement, Municipal Cyberspace Beausoleil, France.
- 2011 — Exhibition on the 150th Anniversary of Italian Unification – Homage to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Arte Città Amica, Torino, Italy.
- 2011 — Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea Grafica Manzoni, Torino, Italy.
- 2010 — “Absence of Freedom”, digital print to Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA.
- 2010 — “Nature & Nurture”, The Kinsey Institute Art Gallery, USA.
- 2010 — 2nd Anniversary Exhibit and Contest, MOCA: Museum of Computer Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- 2009 — Art Exhibition, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, USA.
- 2000 — Bahrain Museum, Manama, Bahrain.
- 1996 — State Exhibition, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Kerala, India.
- 1995 — Annual Art Exhibition, Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Kerala, India.
The list retains the dates and descriptions supplied in the artist’s current biography.
Education & Development
- Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts — Five-year NDFA, Painting, Kerala, India, 1990–1995.
- London Art College — History of Art Diploma Course, 2007.
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) — Contemporary Art, 2012; Catalysts: Artists Creating with Sound, Video, and Time, 2014.
- Duke University — ART of the MOOC: Merging Public Art and Experimental Education, 2015.
- Alriwaq & American Art Space — 3D printing and CNC artistic possibilities, Bahrain, 2013.
- Techspressionism — Co-founder, Techspressionism India node, 2022.