Masters of Fine Arts
Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, UP 2015 2017
Bachelors of Fine Arts
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, Gujarat 2012 – 2015
HSSC
P.P. Savani International School, Surat, Gujarat 2012
SSC
Gurukul Vidyapith, Surat, Gujarat 2010
Work Experience
Assistant teacher for NATA (National Aptitude Test in Architecture)
Rupayan Teaching Classes, Surat, Gujarat
Assistant director and set designer in Music Video, Odyssey Band, Surat, Gujarat
Supporting Actor in Theatre, Drama: ART and EK DUSRA NARK Illustrator in free Wheeler magazine, Shiv Nadar University
“HERE BE DRAGONS AND OTHER CODED LANDSCAPE”, Group Show, Sakshi Art Gallery, Colaba, Mumbai.2017
M.F.A Degree Show, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida, 2017
Part of the Workshop “CTRL ALT CINEMA”, by Sandeep Chatterjee, Greater Noida, July 2017
Artist in residence at Space Studio, Baroda, Gujarat, November 2017 to January 2018
Raj Jariwala (b.1993, Surat, Gujarat) did his BFA from Surat School of Fine Arts, Surat (2011-2015) and MFA from Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida (2015- 2017). He is currently an artist in residence at Space Studios in Baroda. As part of his practice and research he is interested in analyzing the process of map-making from an objective, outsider point of view. It is an attempt to understand and explore the nuances of cartography and what goes into it. The artist’s work observes that there exists a distancing between the information received as an outsider and reality encountered as an insider. Raj Jariwala’s work is concerned with data and its interpretation in various contexts. In the information age where data can be empirical, testimonial or generated by (un)verified sources vis-a-vis social media and news outlets, our perception of history, society and politics lies at an ambiguous point of confluence of all sources. In his series of drawings he challenges the status of empirical quantities as crutches for a corporatized scientific world through a visual recreation of the Fibonacci series, upon which he imposes a freeform, random numerical landscape.