Ramayan Exhibition at DRS Arts Company
DRS Arts Company warmly invites to experience the beauty of the Ādi-Kāvya, the Ramayan by Maharshi Valmiki. It is the memory of our ancestors, the song of our culture, the journey of our people, and the living presence of our deities. It carries a universal and eternal message, offering guidance on how to live with values, dignity, and humanity for the present and for generations to come.
The USP of the Exhibition
This exhibition brings together 21 artists across generations, presenting works across a wide spectrum of mediums and expressions. From sixty-year-old traditional oleographs, to one of the longest woodcuts and etchings on the Ramayan, and award-winning serigraphs that narrate contemporary language, to imaginative visual interpretations created through fire. From grandeur-filled compositions to a sixty-foot site-specific installation. From highly contemporary uses of natural, industrial, readymade, digital, and AI-based materials to folk expressions, people’s art, murals, and sculptural formats.
Legendary, Masters and Rising Stars | Participant Artists
Bansi Khatri | Dhaval Prajapati | Dipti Shukla | Harshil Patel | Jamini Roy | Jayesh Shukla | Jogen Chowdhary | Kamal Rana | Kashyap Parikh | Megha Sharma | M. F. Husain | Milan Desai | Raja Ravi Varma Press | Rajesh Sagara | Ram Viranjan | Seema Kohli | Shyam Sharma | Sujata Achrekar | Uma Shankar Shah | Vijay Achrekar | Vipin Singh Rajput
Curator’s Note
It is our punya karma to think about, curate, and execute one of the most revered epics in world literature. We warmly invite you to experience the beauty of the Ādi-Kāvya, the Ramayan by Maharshi Valmiki. It has shaped not just generations, but entire civilizations. It is the memory of our ancestors, the song of our culture, the journey of our people, and the living presence of our deities. It carries a universal and eternal message, offering guidance on how to live with values, dignity, and humanity.
The Ramayan presents celebrated episodes that bring ethics, emotional intelligence, and culture into view. The living idea at the centre of this exhibition is simple. At its heart stands the Maryada Purushottam. He is the highest embodiment of righteousness. His strength is unmatched, yet what defines him most is the restraint with which he uses it.
This exhibition brings together works across a wide spectrum of mediums and expressions. From sixty-year-old traditional oleographs, one of the longest woodcuts and etchings on the Ramayan, and award-winning serigraphs that narrate contemporary language, to imaginative visual interpretations created through fire. From grandeur-filled compositions to a sixty-foot site-specific installation. From highly contemporary uses of natural, industrial, readymade, digital, and AI-based materials to folk expressions, people’s art, murals, and sculptural formats.
Every medium, every style, from tradition to modern to contemporary, has been presented in service of one idea: bringing the values of Ramayan to the people.
The beauty of this exhibition lies in the spirit with which the works on display have been created. Each artwork emerges from love, from bhakti, from devotion. We at DRS feel deeply privileged, honoured, and grateful to all the living artists, and to the legacy of artists before them, who have created such pujniya works. These are not objects made merely as art. They feel like offerings.
Just as there is devotion towards Lord Ram, Mata Sita, and Hanuman ji, that bhakti has been transformed into a visual language. Just as we have bhajans, satsangs, and kathas, these artworks carry the same energy and feeling, expressed through form, colour, and material. This is what makes the exhibition not just ours, but truly of the people. These works feel as though they are created by the people, for the people, and with the people.
We are honoured to present this exhibition on the second anniversary of the consecration of the Ayodhya Mandir, making the occasion especially meaningful for us.
At the heart of it all, we believe this exhibition is not driven by us alone. A greater guiding force has brought it together and shaped it into what it is today. Such work can only emerge when guided by something larger than ourselves.
Jai Shri Ram!
Chaitya Dhanvi Shah
Curator, DRS Arts Company
15.01.26
About DRS Arts Company®
DRS Arts Company® is one of India’s leading fine arts institutions, with over two decades of commitment to building culturally rooted and globally relevant art ecosystems. Through exhibitions, publications, and long-term curatorial initiatives, the institution works to bring India’s foundational narratives to contemporary audiences across generations and across the globe.
