Jignesh Panchal

Jignesh Panchal (b.1981, Ahmedabad, India) studied Diploma in Drawing & Painting at CN College of fine arts, Ahmedabad, 2006. His works have been exhibited in solo and group shows in India and abroad with various galleries and art fair including The 9th Supper at Strumpfe, Germany, 2012, Fragments of Imagination, Palette Art Gallery, SHE – The Divine, Ojas Art, Desolate, Museo camera, Shifting Seasons, Palette Art Gallery, India Art Fair 2018, 2019 & 2020.

He has been an artist-in-residence at the Glogau AIR, Berlin, 2014, 2015 &2016. Jignesh’s works are built up through layers of paper and sometimes overlapped with various drawing mediums. He tries to represent a layering and compression of time and place with the cultural association and an act of moving and adopting from many contrasting conditions. It also represents a new perspective emerging from his previous art practice using juxtaposed abstracted images of urban settings. He notches to linear dimensions and the multiple approaches of witnessing a space/object. Making an image of an image of an image of what was there. In this way, work is distortion, testimony, and manipulation in the same frame.

Jignesh lives and works in Ahmedabad, India.