Murli Cheeroth

Born in Thrissur in 1966, Kerala, Murali Cheeroth earned a BFA in 1992 and MFA in 1995 from
Santinikethan, West Bengal, and an Advanced Computer Diploma in Digital Media. According to the artist, his working process is “a kind of extraction system, that draws on tiny concerns about uber urbanization, frenzied globalization and the visual/virtual stimulation therein, and folds and unfolds them into another reality to simplify their characteristics and relationships in order to build a new visual experience that is clear and vivid”. Before he settled in Bangalore, Cheeroth lived in many cities, and used his experience as an “outsider” to inform his art. His work is vivid commentaries and observations of cultural structures and identities in society. Often stitching together a collage of jarring imagery, Cheeroth renders his work with neon saturations that bear resemblance more to new media and advertisement, than fine art. While fairly recognizable, the subjects in Cheeroth’s paintings are deformed, distorted, and multi-layered to create overlapping perspectives.