Aditya Puthur (b. 1991, Ambernath, India) completed his Post Diploma (Painting) from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat in 2016 and a Government Diploma in Art (Drawing and Painting) from the L.S. Raheja School of Art, Mumbai in 2014. Aditya’s artistic practice stems from a fascination with the human body as a mutable entity, and the constantly evolving understanding of life and death engendered by rapid advances in the fields of medicine and biology. Through his work, he attempts to merge the fields of science and art to objectively understand and articulate the complexities of the human body and bodily experiences. Involving thorough documentation and collaboration with medical professionals like surgeons and pathologists, he seeks to explore different subjective experiences while holding a sustained examination and critique of pseudo-scientific claims.
Primarily working with oil paint, he also incorporates the use of videos, photographs, organic materials, and medical records. Aditya is a recipient of the Art Incept Grant (2024), Experimenter Generator Grant (2021), Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2017), Young Artist Scholarship (Ministry Of Culture 2017), and Nasreen Mohamedi Award (2016). His solo exhibitions include The Place Called Body, Anant Art Gallery (Noida, 2023) and Unweaving the Rainbow, Faculty of Fine Arts (Vadodara, 2020). Aditya is based in Vadodara, Gujarat presently.