Born in 1996 in Ranchi, Jharkhand, Vishal Kumar Gupta holds a BFA in Painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan in 2021, and an MVA with a gold medal in Creative Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 2023. In his practice, Gupta often focuses on landscapes and trees, taking reference from the wounded and fragmented parts of trees, and uses oil-based materials for his paintings.
Gupta’s works have been part of multiple group exhibitions including Kala Bhavana BFA Online Degree Show (2021); the MSU Faculty of Fine Arts Annual Display (2022-2023); All That Is Hidden: Mapping Departures in Landscape, Terrains and Geographies, Emami Art, Kolkata (2024); and Edition 6 of Abhivyakti: The City Arts Project, ATIRA, Ahmedabad (2024). He was selected for the month-long IMAGINARIUM 3.0 - Residency at Emami Art, Kolkata (2024); and the Winter Studio Take-over at the Raja Ravi Varma Studio, organized by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) Regional Center, Vadodara (2024).
He received the Nasreen Mohamedi Award 2022-2023 in Painting, and is currently based in Baroda.
