Digvijaysinh Jadeja comes from Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He completed his postgraduate studies in printmaking at MSU Vadodara and his bachelor's in painting at MSU Baroda, India.
The mediums of his works vary from printmaking mediums (viscosity, woodcuts, etchings, and lithography), and oil paintings, to graphite drawings. His practice investigates the unnatural ephemerality of human behavior. Stories that are experienced and memorized represent the strangeness of an ordinary life. He works expressively, making sentimental visual narratives. A human figure for him is often portrayed as himself or, at times, as a sheer representation of a common man who just desires to live. In his compositions, human emotion becomes the base that he often paints or draws obscured or juxtaposed. This activity is combined with anecdotes of mysterious evocation, figurative deportments, and strange experiences.
He has received professor V.S. Patel’s Gold Medal and the C.R. Das Gupta Memorial Gold Medal for excellence in Master of Visual Arts (Graphics) at MSU Baroda in 2023. He has been a recipient of the Art for Hope grant by Hyundai India, the Prafulla Dahanukar Kalanand Grant Merit Award, and the Nasreen Mohammedi Scholarship Award. His work has been part of the Kochi Muziris Students Biennale, 4th edition, 2021.
At MacDowell, he created large-scale color woodcut prints on canvas. The work is about past and present time, how human psychology works, and how our past ideas, memories, and desires reflect or juxtapose with the present movement. In this piece, the background features a vast landscape that he observed daily from MacDowell’s Main Hall.
"While sitting there every day, I observed that many thoughts about the past overlapped with the present time and came to my mind."
This sense of fantasy and dreaminess is what he depicts with subtle colors, haziness, and distorted figurative visuals. Besides this woodcut, he made some sentimental visuals from the surroundings, which were oil paintings and pastel and graphite drawings.
"Every second, we are losing the moment as time passes. Through my visual practice, I aim to capture some beautiful moments and feelings.
