Name: Rajcoomar
Surname: Ravi Shankar
Date of bith: November 22, 1973
Place of birth: George Town Guyana
Nationality: Surinamese
Address: Radiumstraat # 29
              Tourtonne 5
Mobile phone: (597) 08509504
Work addrres: Nola Hatterman Art Academy
                      Fort Zeelandia Complex #6
Phone: (597) 470800
Fax: (597) 470828
Country: Suriname South America

Personal website: http://www.ravirajcoomar.com

Work Experience:

workshops attended:

Silk Screen Printing            
Etching                           
Oil Painting                
Clay Sculpting             
Print Making               
Water color                                                                       
Batik                                 
Ceramics                         
Visual Art                        
"GA ABSTRACT"             
Figurative Art                             

mediums used:

Acrylics
Oil Paints
Soft Pastels
Water colors
Mixed Mediums on paper,
canvas and other materials

art projects:

Wall Paintings                                   
Drawing and Competitions       
"PANYA" art projects

Artist Statement:

The body of his work is based on past experiences and also the thoughts of human mysteries. Ravi try to create his own impressions of the human race beyond the minds eye. The unrecognizable reflected text in his work is the communication between us but also reflects the mystery and unknown.
The silhouettes, the objects and the collages of image that he use are to tell us about ourselves. The symbols describe the roots (origins) of persons. The colors and colored spaces used in his work describes sometimes the feelings, the sadness, the happiness, the pleasure, the satisfaction, the situations in which we're in but sometimes the mystery, the unknown, the untold, the unspoken and the unsaid.

Ravi Rajcoomar work only when he's inspired and he like to work freely and put his whole self into his projects.
Ravi like to experiment in his work so that’s why he use a variety of materials and tools.

Exhibitions:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002
Solo Ehibition in House of Art Gallery  -  Suriname

2001
Solo Exhibition in Krasnapolsky Hotel  -  Suriname

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Routes of migration - Suriname

2006
Surifesta  -  Suriname
National Art Festival  -  Suriname
Silk Screen Print & Etching (workshop  exhibition)   -   Suriname

2005
Surifesta   -   Suriname
National Art Festival   -   Suriname
Group Exhibition  (Nola Hatterman Art Academy)   -   Suriname
Rain Forest Art Festival   -   Suriname
Group Exhibition "Zichtbaar" (DSB Bank)  -  Suriname

2004
Group Exhibition (Centro De Estudos Brasileros)  -  Suriname
Group Exhibition Workshop (Centro De Estudos Brasileros)  -  Suriname
Group Exhibition FVAS (Ballroom, Hotel Torarica)  -  Suriname
Group Exhibition (Ballroom, Hotel Torarica)  -  Suriname

2003
Great Expectations  -  Suriname
Carifesta  -  Suriname
National Art Festival  -  Suriname

2002
National Art Festival  -  Suriname
FVAS Exhibition (Federation of Visual Artists in Suriname)  -  Suriname
Crabasi Exhibition "Live & Love" (Federation of Craft Artists)  -  Suriname
Between Lines  -  Cariforum (Traveling Exhibition)  -  Republic of Dominica,
                          Haiti, St. Maarten, Antigua, Brussel, Martinique,
                          Guadeloupe, Barbados, Curacao, Suriname

2001 / 2002
2001
IV Caribbean Biennial, Santo Domingo  -  Republic of Dominica
Collective Art Exhibition (Suriname  -  Venezuela)  -  Suriname
Group Exhibition, 102 years Nola Hatterman Art Academy  -  Suriname
Group Exhibition, 120 Telesur (Telephone Company of Suriname)
Group Exhibition Crabasi (Federation of Craft Artists)  -  Suriname
Mixed Art Exhibition "EGI DU"  -  Suriname

2000
Surifesta  -  Suriname
National Art Festival  -  Suriname
Group Exhibition FVAS (Federation of Visual Artists in Suriname)  -  Suriname
Carifesta  -  St. Kitts and Nevis
Suriname 2000  -  Trinidad & Tobago
Group Exhibition  -  Suriname
Millennium Art Exhibition  -  Suriname

1999
Exhibition of the Millennium  -  Suriname
National Art Festival  -  Suriname
Surifesta  -  Suriname
Group Exhibition "RAKUERRO"  -  Suriname

1998
National Art Festival  -  Suriname
1st July Group Exhibition  -  Suriname

1997
National Art Festival  -  Suriname
1996
National Art Festival  -  Suriname
1995
National Art Festival  -  Suriname