Abhay K.| Poet, Editor, Translator, Artist| : Art

Abhay K. wears many hats as a poet, editor, translator, photographer and diplomat. His artistic journey began in 2005 in Moscow, Russia. Since then he has exhibited his artworks in Paris, St. Petersburg, New Delhi, Brasilia and Antananarivo, some of which are in private collections across the world.

Solo Exhibitions
2009-‘Elements’ Door Gallery, Art Centre Pushkinskaya-10, St. Petersburg
2010- 'Enlightenment'- Selskaya Zhizhn Gallery, St. Petersburg
2010- 'New Symbols'- Sigmund Freud Museum, St. Petersburg
2011- 'We have come far'- Russian Centre, New Delhi (take a virtual tour)
2018-'One Planet' - National Library, Brasilia, Brazil (take a virtual tour)

2022- 'UniVerse'- The Akademia Malagasy, Antananarivo, Madagascar

2024-'Shunyata' -Romain Rolland Gallery, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi

2024-'Shunyata' -Bihar Museum, Patna

Group Exhibitions

2008- International Festival of Mini Art, Museum of Non-conformist Art, Pushkinskaya-10, St. Petersburg

2009- Arka Art Gallery, St. Petersburg

2009- ‘Bridge Infinte' Markov Gallery, St. Petersburg

2009- ‘International Festival of Independent Art’, Level of Sea, Central Manezh, St. Petersburg 2009-‘ L’INDE-ATTRACTION UNIVERSELLE, Galarie Grand Eterna, Paris

2009 'Earth: the Sacred Treasure' Yusupov Palace Museum, St. Petersburg

2010 'We are different, we are together' Steiglitz Academy of Art, St. Petersburg.

2010 'Nous Somme Ensemble' Adzak Museum, Paris

2024 Spirituality in Art, 8th Ancient Art Festival, IGNCA, New Delhi

Sample Art Works

Please contact Abhay K. - abhayk2023 at the rate of gmail.com for any queries regarding paintings

Media on Abhay K.'s Paintings

Opening of Shunyata: An exhibition of paintings by Abhay K. at Alliance Francaise, Delhi

Opening of Abhay K's Art Exhibition 'One Planet' at the National Library, Brasilia, Brazil 2018

"Last month,the director of Delhi’'s National Gallery of Modern Art,Rajeev Lochan,inaugurated an exhibition of paintings by Indian diplomat Abhay Kumar at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Delhi. The exhibition was titled ‘We Have Come Far’,and addressed issues relating to the environment and spirituality...Being a diplomat feeds into my artwork because I travel a lot and that makes me aware of global issues that get channeled into my works,” says Kumar,whose paintings lean toward abstraction while trying to capture the cosmic beauty of the earth through geometric forms and colours. “I’'m also a poet and a writer and I feel all these aspects of my life work together in a synergistic way,” says Kumar,who has also displayed his works in Paris and St Petersburg." - Georginia Maddox A Second Life, Indian Express (7 May 2011)

ABOUT ART WORKS OF ABHAY K.

"Suprematism is at its best here... as Malevich deconstructed art itself. The delicate links between words or signs and the objects they denote to achieve a 'zero degree' of art are unravelled in the connections made for art's sake. I wonder if transrational poetry has been Abhay K.’s source of inspiration as well. I was intrigued, and to put it in the words of El Lissitzky, "ultimate illusion of irrational space" posited alongside spiritual and spatial understanding of the third dimension" magnifies Abhay K.’s outlook. It illuminates the urge for expansion of art practice, ideation, perspectives and conviviality. Paradigm of planetism, Vasudhaiva Kutambakam are not only tropes for art exhibits but translate into a worldview that Abhay K. inhabits and enables others to envision. The influence of the place and the need to dwell in art to unify national ideologies and respect their diversities is much respected. His painting 'Global Round Table' also particularly piqued my interest. In the Kantian way, Abhay K. exudes a 'universal state of human' kindness. For a diplomat with such high ideals, the national consciousness and representation are certainly in able hands.”— YAMINI DAND SHAH, Curator, Research Repository, Asian Heritage Foundation

Abhay's art works address realized worldly issues with a sense of introspection.

—RAJEEV LOCHAN, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art, India, 2010

The coming together of poem and image, their drawing apart and resumption of mutual approach, the things they invoke together and separately: we savour all these moments of aesthetic experience in The Seduction of Delhi, a folio in which Abhay K and Tarshito collaborate to evoke the spectral yet palpable histories of Delhi, as well as its vibrant, insistent, kaleidoscopic and paradoxical present.

— RANJIT HOSKOTE, Poet, Cultural Theorist and Curator

What I find fascinating about art works of Abhay K is that he goes from very individual signs to broader symbols. A number of his works remind of Cubists. Others remind of pointillism but they way he blends them all together is his own.

—SUNEET CHOPRA, Art Critic

The geometry of Malevich and the musical coloured vision of Matyushin gain typical Indian colour vibrancy and even somewhat folklore inflections in his abstract and semi-abstract works.

— ANDREY KHLOBYSTYN, Art Critic

In his art works Abhay K creates an allegory of planetary consciousness -Emblems of the unity of the peoples. He draws images of apritual unity. A futuristic reworking of figurative and suprematic motives.
— STANISLAV SAVITSKY, Art Critic

Abhay K. is also a collector of Russian Art. To view his Russian Art Collection please Visit

Photographs by Abhay K.

Portraits by Abhay K.Open

Visual Retreat: Photographs by Abhay K. Open

Crossing Karnali by Abhay K. published in the Kathmandu Post

CAPITALS

"As the world shrinks and border fences go up, and travel becomes both easier and more difficult, Capitals looks like the book to have. Frequent flyers can here rest awhile as can nimble-footed backpackers, and for those who are still curious to see what the poets in Moroni or Tegucigalpa are doing, I cannot think of a better place to begin." —Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

"In striking voices of every hue and shade, from some of the greatest cities of our globe, Capitals marries word and verse to elegance and fire, transporting history's ghosts and tomorrow's hopes in an inspiring journey of the soul." —Shashi Tharoor

"...disturbing and poignant....what an anthology!"—Shobhaa De

"This anthology is a powerful evocation of cities, communities and urban spaces across cultures and continents, histories and timelines." —Namita Gokhale

On Poetry of Abhay K.

"The geographies, both material and spiritual, of Nepal, the pinnacle of our world, have never been more lovingly rendered than in this, Abhay K’s splendid poetic sequence of praise, dazzlement, and wonder for a realm in which he sojourned as both a pilgrim and a friend."—Vijay Seshadri, Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

"Abhay K.'s words don’t sit outside and observe. They dig in, making their subject their home, and then they turn outwards, watching the landscape, the people, the city, change. The city makes him feel, and these feelings seep into his words." —The Hindu Book Review

"Abhay K’s Seduction of Delhi is not so much a city transformed as tenderly opened up and invited to commune with the world around it in both time and place.The transformations are gentle and humane: the history is deep and lightly worn. This is a beautiful way to be introduced to a great city as both specific and essence." —George Szirtes, Winner T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

"Abhay K's poems serve up a Delhi, resplendent with character, torn asunder by marauders, patch-worked back several times with belief and faith - and above all saturated through with the touch of time and history."—The Times of India

"Qualities of love, tenderness and compassion set Abhay K's work apart from much of the general run of current poetics."— Jayanta Mahapatra, Major Indian Poet

"Abhay K has a special gift. His poetic mission, rare today, is simply to praise. His poems shimmer with a deep human appreciation of the gift of life and its fragile tapestry. I see them as Vedic hymns of praise in contemporary dress."—Gabriel Rosenstock, Major Irish Poet

"In these rapturous poems (in The Eight-Eyed Lord Of Kathmandu) Abhay K catches the allure and mystique of Kathmandu; its maze of medieval streets, its thronged bazaars, its twilit courtyards." —Cathal O'Searcaigh, Major Irish Poet

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Abhay K. is also a collector of Russian Art. To view his Russian Art Collection please Visit

Photographs by Abhay K.

Portraits by Abhay K.Open