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Dr. Pratik Sagar

Dr. Pratik Sagar

Assistant Professor, Art & Design

pratik.sagar@sharda.ac.in

About

Brief Profile: As an interdisciplinary artist and pedagogue with more than 13 years of experience, my creative expression and its real time application requires a didactic approach to reflect on my daily transactions with people and surroundings. I find that my artistic expression is often symbolic and suggestive rather than too narrative or explicit in its conveyance. Furthermore as someone who is passionate about art integrated education, I perceive both my passion for teaching and fervor for art-writing as an addition to my personal creative freedom. I feel that this allows me to engage with the residual thoughts from one commitment reflected into the proceeding assignment, and in this process ensuring a changeable narrative to my individual artistic language. Fascinated to know more of my peers and fellow artists, I had begun an online artist interview series called Agyeya LIVE through the first lockdown for Covid-19 during my Ph.D. study days. It allows me conversations with artists of various ardors. Recalling the benefits of curatorial reflections to my own art portfolio, I got recently initiated to a curatorial venture. I see it as broadening a support structure to young artists annexed by arty fluxes and personal tumults, as well as an opportunity to collaborate, redress and renew some of the recurring old patterns of my personal flavour for art.

Experience
  • 13 years
     
Qualification
  • PhD, MFA, BFA
Award & Recognition

  • M F Hussain Merit Award 2009, PEERS 2009 Artist Residency, New Media Workshop Odisha 2010, KHOJ Artist Residency 2011, Prohelvetica Swiss Arts Council Residency at Iaab, Basel, Switzerland 2013, Solo show at KNOTS Baroda 2014, Art adda + LIVE ART Bangalore 2015, Solo show at CDAS Delhi 2018, Agyeya LIVE 2020-21, GEMS
  • Webinar-“Therapeutic Art in Early Years” 2022, LKA Artist Presentation 2022, Art Curation- Brahamavarta: A Place of Healing Mythopoeia, Visual Arts gallery, India habitat Center 2023
     

Research

  • Book Chapter- “Artistic Self and Creative Duty in Innovative Teaching: Some Lessons from Buddhist-Indic Perspective”, Scientific Bases for Indian Knowledge Tradition by National Institute of Open Learning, New Delhi, Shipra Publications.2023;
  • Research Journals- The Role of Nature in Indian Art, Praxis International Journal of Social Science and Literature, Impact Factor: RIF 1.889, ISSN: 2581-6675, Vol. 2, Issue 5, May – 2019, pp. 96-101; The ‘Healer Buddha and his ‘Dhamma medicine, AJANTA JOURNAL, SI NO.2385, VOL.8, Issue 2, Impact Factor: 5.5, ISSN: 22775730, pp. 85-89, April-June 2019;
  • University Publication- ‘Investigating
  • Buddhist-Indic wisdom for Psychosomatic Health with special reference to Schizophrenia presented at “Buddhism: Integrating with Modern Sciences to mental and social development”, Proceedings: International and National Academic Conference of Graduate School, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Ayutthaya, Thailand, 27 June 2021.
  • Conferences- Narratives in Buddhist Aesthetics: A democratic and visual based method in public education in the Gavesana Students Seminar on Buddhist Narratives on 8th April 2023 organized by BK J Somaiya Institute of Dharma Studies, Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai;
  • Re-articulating Buddhist Mandala Paintings as Psycho-diagrams containing seeds for social emancipation that are accessed through ritual procedures for “Eastern Humanism for the New Era” at 7th International Dharma-Dhamma Conference (DDC) on 03-05 March 2023, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India;
  • Creative Pedagogy for Cultivating an ‘Artistic Self: Lessons from the past and a Framework for the Present – presented at “National Seminar on Integration of Indigenous Knowledge in the School Curriculum: Prospects and Challenges”; organized by Northeast Regional Institute of Education (NERIE), Umiam, Meghalaya on 17- 18 Feb 2022; “Self Transformation of Body, Speech and Mind through Buddhist mandala visualization: an exercise in psychosomatic healing” at Dharma Dhamma Conference 2021 organized at Nalanda University, Bihar, India on 07-09 November 2021;
  • Sri Yantra and Kalchakra presented at Dharma/Dhamma 2018 (Focus: Shaktatantra) -International Conference on Historical, Sociological, Philosophical, and Spiritual Significance of Shaktatantra with Special Reference to Srividya Tradition, 17-19 December 2018, Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies, Madhya Pradesh, India.
     

Area of Interest

  • Innovative art education, visual narratives in Indian philosophy, thangka paintings, art practice based research