Ankur Yadav is an artist and poet based in Rajasthan, India. Trained as a painter, his practice extends across film, poetry, scenographic installations, and site-specific interventions. His work aims to subvert dominant narratives of exploitative capitalist practices, colonial knowledge systems, and oppressive regional politics and ideologies, which have degraded the environment of his native region, Behror in Rajasthan. Rooted in grief, anger and loss, both personal and collective — his practice seeks to build alternative perspectives and discourses that challenge extractive systems and resist anthropocentric worldviews.

 

A graduate in Fine Arts from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, Ankur completed his post-graduation at the Faculty of Visual Arts, MSU Baroda. He has also been a researcher at The New Centre for Research & Practice in Art and Curatorial Practices.

He has received grants and awards from the Prince Claus Seed Award (Netherlands), Inlaks Fine Art Award (India), FICA–MMF Emerging Artist Award (India), Art for Hope Grant Hyundai Motor Foundation (India), Generator Experimenter Grant (India), Ravi Jain Memorial Fellowship Dhoomimal Gallery (India).

Ankur has participated in residencies such as the Résidence Fabrique Program Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, Paris (France), Pro Helvetia Swiss Studio Residency at Rote Fabrik, Zurich (Switzerland), and a fellow at the Transcultural Academy Unfinished Publics: Art and Democracy at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany).

His recent exhibitions include at the Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF), Kolkata (India); Critical Zones: In Search of a Common Ground at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi (India); Solo artist for Jaipur Art Week, at Sukriti Gallery at Jawahar Kala Kendra Jaipur, (India).