Born in 1981, Ashutosh Bhardwaj completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts (2002) and Master of Fine Arts from Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2004) Among his selected group exhibitions are ‘Meandering Membranes’ by Empire Art & The Shrine Gallery, New Delhi; ‘New Voices’, The Guild Art Inc, New York; Asian Young Artist in Heyri, Paju City, South Korea; ‘Beyond Credos – Painting In Baroda Today’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata; ‘The Chronicles of The Unspoken’, Matters of Art, New Delhi, and ‘After Images’, Faculty Of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2007) Among the awards won by him are Junior Research Fellowship (2005), Nasreen Mohammedi Award (2004), National Scholarship as well as Merit Scholarship of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Though his works always offer equivocal meanings and interpretations, they defiantly respond to the contemporary Cosmo and metro surroundings around the artist