ROY THOMAS
BORN IN 1966, KERALA, INDIA.
1993 MFA (Painting), College of Arts, New Delhi.
1990 BFA (Painting), First Rank with gold medal from College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram,
Kerala University.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO SHOWS.
2024 "Deep Within" Durbar Hall Art Gallery , Kochi
2023 "Deep Within" Bikaner House , New Delhi.
2019 “Near the Confluence” Arushi Arts, New Delhi.
2015 “Uninterrupted tales” Arushi Arts, New Delhi.
2011 Solo Exhibition at Fabula in Art, Musei Di Salvatore in Lauro, Rome, Italy.
2010 “Unexpected Revelations” Arushi Arts, New Delhi.
2008 “From the vanishing point” Seagull foundation, Calcutta.
2007 “View from the other end” Kitab Mahal, Mumbai.
2006 “Projected memories...fading realities” Arushi Arts, New Delhi.
1999 Kashi Art Café, Kochi, Kerala.
1998 Galleria Mareechika, Times House, Kochi, Kerala
1997 The Great Art Gallery, New Delhi.
1995 Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi.
1993 Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi.
SELECTED PARTICIPATIONS
2023 'Artix ' Art fair at Taj Palace, New Delhi.
2023 'Boundless Boundaries' Arushi Arts ,New Delhi.
2022 'Hymns for the Displaced" curated by Jayaram Poduval, Gallery 1000A, New Delhi.
2022 ‘Yesterday Today Tomorrow’ Arushi Arts, New Delhi.
2022 ‘Harvest’ Arushi Arts, New Delhi.
2021 ‘Lokame Tharavadu, Show curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Aleppy, Kerala.
2021 ‘Harvest’ Arushi Arts, New Delhi.
2021 ‘Grains of solitude’ Thanal Gallery, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
2021 ‘Circle of Reason’, Suryakanti, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
2012 ‘Art Summit’, New Delhi
2010 ‘Art Singapore’.
2010 ‘Celebration’ Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
2010 ‘Creating commonwealth’ Gallery Ragini, New Delhi.
2010 ‘Harvest’ Arushi Arts, New Delhi.
2010 FADA -Los Angeles Art Show.
2009 ‘Who we are’ Sunjin Gallery, Singapore.
2009 'THE ART OF INDIA - 20 Years of Contemporary Indian Art', Peter&muller gallery. Munich, Germany.
2009 ‘Harvest’, stainless steel gallery, New Delhi.
2009 India art summit, New Delhi.
2008 ‘The Sun Rises in the East’ curated by Dr Alka Pande, Galerie Christian Hosp,
Nazareth, Austria.
2008 ‘Beyond boundaries’ Cork Street, London.
2008 Indiart part-2 – ‘From New Delhi to Baghdad’, Paris
2008 ‘Fair Singapore’, contemporary Asian Art, Arushi Arts, Singapore
2008 ‘10 years anniversary show’ Galerie Muller and plate, Munich Germany
2008 ‘Harvest’ Contemporary Art show by Arushi Arts, at Stainless Steel Gallery, Mira centre,
New Delhi.
2007 ‘REAL- 2007’ by ‘matters of art .com’ at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2007 ‘Harvest 2007’, Contemporary Art show Arushi Arts, New Delhi.
2006 “A compensation for what has been lost” curated by Jhony M.L, New Delhi.
2006 ‘Harvest’, Contemporary Art show by Arushi Arts, New Delhi
2006 “REAL-2006” Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2006 “Spirit & Souls Festival”15th Korea-India Modern Art Exchange Exhibition, New Delhi
2006 “Garden of Black Roses” Travancore Palace, New Delhi
2006 “Self & Identity”, National Gallery of Modern Art, Maldives.
2005 ‘Double Enders’, conceptualized by Bose Krishnamachary at Jehangir Art gallery,
Mumbai, Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, Darbar Hall Kochi.
2005 ‘An ode to peace’, Art Junction, New Delhi
2005 ‘Fly high my beloved Dreams’ a tribute to Ashokan Poduwal, New Delhi
2005 ‘Self and Identity’, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2005 ‘60 years of Hiroshima’, Academy of Arts, New Delhi
2005 ‘Recent wishes and anxieties of six artists’, New Delhi
2005 ‘Being and belongings’, New Delhi.
2005 ‘Ethnic Colours’ Group show by Suryakanti at Durbar Hall, Kochi, Kerala.
2005 ‘People on progress’, New Delhi.
2005 Tsunami distress relief fund Art exhibition, Kochi, Kerala
2004 ‘Median’, Exhibition of painting and sculptures, New Delhi.
2004 ‘Making of India’, Exhibition organized by SAHAMAT, New Delhi.
2004 ‘Invasions” an Exhibition by ‘ASK’, New Delhi
2003 National Exhibition, Guwahati & Hyderabad, by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
2002 ‘Vriksholsav’, Kashi Art Café, Kochi.
2001 Annual show, Birla Academy of Arts, Mumbai.
2001 Suryakanthi Art Exhibition, Kovalam, Kerala.
2000 ‘Windows’, Contemporary Art Gallery Durbar Hall, Kochi, Kerala.
2000 ‘Small but significant’, Academy of Arts, New Delhi.
1999 Group Show-Mira Center for Arts, New Delhi.
1999 ‘Edge of the Century’, Art Today, New Delhi
1999 ‘Masters Guild’ Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi.
1999 Group Show- Suryakanthi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
1998 ‘Artists for a Sustainable World’, Academy for Fine Arts and literature, New Delhi.
1998 State Exhibition, L.K.A, Kochi, Kerala.
1997 “Gift for India” organized by SAHMAT, New Delhi.
1997 Group Show-Birla Academy of Arts, Mumbai.
1997 State Exhibition L.K.A, Kochi, Kerala
1996 Indo-Cuban joint show Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi.
1995 ‘Postcard for Gandhi’ exhibition organized by SAHMAT in New Delhi, Mumbai, Baroda, Chennai,
Ahmedabad and Calcutta.
1993 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.
1993 Group Show- Clenbera Art Museum, Japan.
1993 College of Art’s 37th Annual Exhibition, New Delhi.
1992 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi;
1992 Summer Show at Gallery Espace, New Delhi;
1992 College of Art’s 36th Annual Exhibition, New Delhi
1992 7th Yuva Kalamela, Sahithya Kala Parishad, New Delhi
1991 Southern Regional Art Exhibition conducted by the Lalitha Kala Academi Regional
Centre, Chennai.
1990 Group show at Venketappa Art Gallery, Bangalore.
1990 Kerala. State Exhibition L.K.A, Kochi, Kerala.
1989 All India Exhibition, Samskarika Kendra, Ernakulam.
1989 Regional Art Exhibition, Chennai.
1988 Graphics ’88, College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram.
1998 State Exhibition L.K.A, Kochi, Kerala.
1990-91 Worked as a paying artist at Lalitha Kala Academi, Regional Centre, Chennai
SCHOLARSHIPS
1997 Junior Fellowship from HRD Ministry, Government of India
1993 National Research Grant from Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
2004 Coordinated ‘Median’ an exhibition of 20 artists, in New Delhi
2005 Coordinated ‘Recent wishes & anxieties’ by 6 artists in New Delhi
Artist lives in New Delhi, India.
