Born in Rajkot in 1977, Udit Kulshrestha spent his childhood travelling the length and breadth of the country, as an Army officer's son. As a youth, he ventured into the world of marketing where he studied the domains of the Internet, Broadcast Media, Paints and Durables for 7 years. However, with a parental lineage in performing and visual arts, it was only a matter of time till he discovered his true calling as a visual artist and a photographer in pursuit of a journey of self-realisation and vivid creative expression.
His photo essays and features on subjects of Culture, Social issues and Business have been published in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Washington Post, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Iran Daily, Jakarta Globe, Times of India, Fountain Ink, The Caravan, Forbes India, Motherland Magazine, BBC, The Sunday Guardian, JetWings, Fotoflock, Hindustan Times etc. His profession keeps him busy creating visual delights for the Advertising, Editorial and Corporate clientele in the domains of People, Lifestyle, Social Issues and Culture. His work has been recognised by the Smithsonian (USA) in '08. His advertising work has been awarded the DDB Worldwide Mudra - Rising Tide Award, apart from being nominated in the One Show Awards in 2009. In 2013, he was a nominee for the Neel Dongre grant for Photographic Excellence for producing a collaborative project on Migrant Gurgaon and his photojournalistic work on the Nautch girls of Sonepur, awarded an Honorary Mention by the Media Foundation of India. Recently, he's a part of the collaborative project on documenting Tiruvannamalai as part of his work on Hinduism. A photography patron, he has also curated a show on the subject of graphic, erotic and conceptual Nudes entitled, 'Keeping up Appearances' in 2009 and more recently in 2013, a show of Raghu Rai's work's in Chennai at Apparao Galleries.
A self taught inquisitive photographer and a traveller - more a voyager of the visual senses - he explores the media of motion imagery, literature & creative writing, philosophy, design and music to hone his pictorial perspectives. His works are part of several private collections in India and abroad.
Selected Solo Exhibitions2008 'Monochromes', Quill & Canvas, Gurgaon
Selected Group Exhibitions2014 India Art Fair, New Delhi, presented by Wonderwall Gallery
2014 'Faith', Gallery Sanskriti and Wonderwall, Kolkata
2014 'Contemporary Artwalk III', presented by by Gallery Ragini at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2013 'Parallel Cities', ProHelvetia-TimeOut, Max Mueller, New Delhi
2013 'Uttarakhand United Unveiled', Wonderwall, New Delhi
2012 'Art of Faith', Quill & Canvas, Gurgaon
2012 'Eternal Faith', Indipix Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'Glimpses of the Journey along the Silk Route', Apparao Galleries, New Delhi
2009 'Globalware', Ontario, Canada
2009 'Visions', ZazaSpace, New Delhi
2009 'Juvenilia Juxtaposed', Gallery Ragini, New Delhi
2009 'Wonderwall', Alliance Fran??aise, New Delhi
2008 'Sahmat', Mandi House, New Delhi
2008 'Darwaaze', Market Caf??, New Delhi
2008 'Three' at Market Caf??, New Delhi
2008 'Spaces', India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2008 The Wonderwall Show, Caf?? Turtle, New Delhi
2008 'Sidewalks', Global Arts Village, New Delhi
2008 DestinAsian: Viewfinder, Viewfinder Gallery, London
About Wonderwall
Wonderwall, India’s first and only ecommerce website specializing in fine art photography and other new and upcoming forms of art, including video art, is the brainchild of Ajay Rajgarhia.
A platform to showcase established names and also upcoming artists, the website is dedicated to making photography an accessible form of art to the public at large. Wonderwall hopes to be instrumental in getting people to understand and develop people’s interest in fine art photography and other new and upcoming forms of art, irrespective of medium.
Wonderwall also organizes regular exhibitions in India & abroad, to target people who would like a tactile experience before they buy art.