Tarun Sharma

Tarun Sharma is a contemporary visual artist based in New Delhi, whose practice primarily focuses on printmaking techniques such as mezzotint, linocut, collagraphy, and carving on discarded plywood. The artist embraces processes that demand slowness, pressure, and physical engagement. Through the tactile and time-intensive process of printmaking, the artist creates images that are both intimate and repeatable.

Through these materially grounded practices, he creates images that function as visual testimonies inviting empathy and reflection on shared, precarious existence. His recent body of work engages with questions of coexistence between humans, animals, birds, and the natural world amid rapid urban and ecological change. Shaped by lived experience and close environmental observation, his work reflects on the fragility of life in a city marked by extreme pollution and unchecked expansion. The works foreground non-human lives rendered invisible or expendable within human-centered narratives.

A Master of Fine Arts graduate (2019) from the College of Art, New Delhi, he further honed his skills as a research scholar in printmaking at Lalit Kala Akademi (National Academy of Art) during 2019-20.

In 2020, Tarun received advanced training in mezzotint printmaking at the Manhattan Graphics Center, New York.

His distinctive voice in the world of printmaking has earned him both national and international acclaim. Tarun was among the first recipients of the prestigious SEED Award 2021 by the Prince Claus Fund, Netherlands. He has participated in and won accolades at various national and international biennales. His works are held in esteemed museum collections across India and abroad. In 2023, he was awarded the Junior Fellowship by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.