Visual artist Uday Dhar work has been influenced by years living in Britain, India, Queens, and Berlin, Germany, where he first started making art seriously. He became an artist later in life, forgoing his career in architecture.
Dhar’s work explores the tension between individual freedom and self-expression versus cultural heritage and social obligations, with the goal of reinterpreting cultural, social and personal experiences through art that can be meaningful to others. While his work is derived from the double-edged experience of immigrating to the United States, his art is a commentary on the larger cultural transformations that are taking place in the United States and India.
He received a grant from the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2006, and he is a Fellow of both MacDowell and Yaddo. Dhar’s works have been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Berlin, Budapest, Bali, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Delhi.
