Using his recurring subject of dogs and airplanes, Ravi Kumar Chaurasiya creates imaginative ecological systems on paper, canvas, and sculpture. Experimenting with light and color, he employs a semi-figurative style in his practice that incorporates elements of folk, miniatures, and landscapes rather than strict academic realism. When viewed closely, his works showcase references from urban spaces to highlight the duality of development—commenting on how unplanned cities, urban concretization, and architectural waste denude nature within the ecology. By combining his lived reality with field research, his artworks remain both factually significant and emotionally moving.
Chaurasiya completed his Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Department of Fine Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, where he was a Gold Medalist, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His professional recognition includes receiving the Ravi Jain Memorial Foundation Award (2017) and the Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation State Award for Painting, Mumbai (2019). Chaurasiya has also been selected for prestigious residencies that have expanded his horizons, most notably the Avolon Global Studio Art Residency at the R.H.A. in Dublin, Ireland (2019), and the Dharti Art Residency (now Serendipity Art Residency) in 2018.