Born in 1974 in Nagpur, India; Rajesh Pullarwar is an artist-printmaker and curator, and equally at ease with paint and mixed-media. He completed BFA (Drawing & Painting) and MFA (Printmaking) in first class from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai in 2000 and 2002 respectively and was awarded the ‘Most Promising Artist of the Year’ in 2005 by National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai.
As founder and director of International Print Exchange Programme (IPEP), India, he attempts to bring together artists, curators and writers at various stages of their careers on an equal aesthetic footing, irrespective of their works’ commercial value.