Avinash Veeraraghavan’s multidisciplinary practice spans embroidery, prints, graphic books, and multichannel video installations, drawing on a sustained engagement with visual culture, craft, and digital imaging. Veeraraghavan constructs intricate images using photographs, textile patterns, and borrowed motifs—from global visual traditions to everyday ephemera—meticulously manipulated and digitally composed to open up new possibilities of meaning.

At the heart of his practice is an inquiry into interiority. His densely layered compositions reflect an enduring preoccupation with the structure of emotion, the psychic landscape, and a territory between reality and hallucination. For over two decades, Veeraraghavan has navigated mental health challenges, and his practice often emerges as a cathartic exercise as an attempt to articulate the shape of his visions.

Recent solo exhibitions include Days Gone By, GALLERYSKE, New Delhi (2022); 1024 Names, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore (2016); We do not see things the way they are, we see things the way we are, GALLERYSKE, New Delhi (2014); and Crazy Jane and Jack the JourneyMan, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2011). Other solo presentations include Tilton Gallery, New York (2013), and Toy Story, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore (2009).

His work has been featured in major institutional exhibitions including Time to Act, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2025); Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016); Indian Highway, presented at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2012); Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark (2010); and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2009). Group exhibitions include Prague Biennale (2011); Urban Manners 1 and 2, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo (2010); and Still Moving Image, curated by Deeksha Nath, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi (2008).

In 2009, Veeraraghavan was awarded the Illy Sustain Art Prize in Madrid. He pursued a post-school program in art and design at the Centre for Learning in Bangalore in 1995, where he trained under Italian designer Andrea Anastasio.

The artist lives and works in Bangalore.