Nitheen Ramalingam is an Indian Visual Artist and educator currently based in Davis, CA.
Through figurative drawings and paintings, Ramalingam has been meditating on people and their surroundings. An underlying aggrieved energy, suggestive of his concern with alienation, oppression, and emancipation expresses itself in his Art works.
In the current series of paintings and drawings, Ramalingam meditates on the scenes he witnessed at the commemoration of a massacre near his hometown in India.The various gestural marks and juxtaposed colors bring out the visceral qualities of the landscape as well as the individuals and groups of people within it as agents of their history.
Ramalingam has upcoming exhibitions in Sacramento City Hall, CA; Gallery OED, Kochi, India and Method Gallery, New Delhi, India. In the past he has exhibited in several venues across the world such as The Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, CA; Stroom Den Haag,NL; Conflictorium-museum of Conflict,India; and Kintex Art Asia,Korea.
He will be an Artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center this year and in the past has been a resident at The Verge center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA and has had studios and received mentorship from other institutions such as The Lalit Kala Akademi Regional center, Chennai, India and Khoj international Artists Association, New Delhi, India.
Born in Chennai, India, he recently graduated from the Art Studio MFA program at University of California, Davis. He has also received BVA in Painting and Printmaking and MVA in Painting from the M.S University of Baroda, India.