Sajeev Visweswaran

SAJEEV VISWESWARAN

Sajeev Visweswaran’s practice engages drawing as both a medium and a mode of inquiry, examining the relationships between personal memory, social structures, and everyday experience. Working across printmaking, drawing, and mixed media, his works function as quiet observations of the tensions that shape contemporary life. Drawing from his experiences between village India and urban artistic contexts, he investigates the intersections between the domestic and the public, the personal and the political, and presence and absence. Through this, his practice considers how ordinary gestures and environments become sites through which larger cultural and ideological conditions are revealed.

Drawing remains central to Visweswaran’s approach, informing a visual language characterised by restraint, precision, and economy of means. Minimal lines, measured marks, and subtle spatial relationships form the basis of compositions that often privilege suggestion over narrative certainty. His works attend closely to the rhythms of everyday life, allowing seemingly mundane situations to become points of reflection on identity, memory, labour, and belonging. Through these formal strategies, he develops images that hold together intimacy and distance, observation and critique.

Visweswaran received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Art, New Delhi, and later completed a Master of Visual Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. His first solo exhibition was presented at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bengaluru, in 2014. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions and group presentations across India and internationally, including in South Korea and France. He has participated in residencies at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bengaluru (2014), and the Résidence Prix programme at the 13th Biennale Internationale de Gravure de Sarcelles, France (2008). His works are also included in the Waswo X. Waswo Collection of Indian Printmaking, a major collection of contemporary Indian prints that has been pledged to the Stanley Museum of Art at the University of Iowa. Alongside his studio practice, he has taught drawing and printmaking at institutions in both India and the United States.

Visweswaran lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.