Biography

Divyam Raghunath is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and art director working across painting, installation, moving image, branding & ad design. He holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, alongside a Graphic Design certificate from the California Institute of the Arts.

His work has been exhibited internationally across London, Singapore, New Delhi, and Taipei, including presentations at the Corner Gallery, Hockney Gallery, Hypha Studios, The Stainless Gallery, HEARTH Gallery, London Design Festival, Copeland Gallery and Alliance Française de Singapour.

Alongside his art practice, Raghunath has worked professionally as an art director in advertising, contributing to campaigns for international brands at agencies including HAVAS and Leo Burnett. His background spans both fine art and commercial practice, positioning him across disciplines of contemporary art and visual communication.

Artist Statement

Divyam's art practice explores how urban environments subtly shape emotional life, with a focus on how built space influences movement, perception and belonging. Having grown up in a small town in India and later lived in Singapore and London, his work often navigates tensions between warmth and detachment, vibrancy and sterility. These shifts across geographies, cultures and emotional landscapes form a central foundation of his practice.

The sky plays a recurring role in his visual language. He approaches it as a shared, open plane that, within contemporary cities, becomes fragmented by architecture, filtered through glass and constrained by vertical ambition. His work frequently reorients perspective, inviting viewers to look up, down or through, and to experience space as unstable and mediated. Raghunath considers architecture not only as physical structure but as emotional infrastructure carrying memory, aspiration and erasure.

Influenced by psychogeography and hyperreality, he focuses on intimate and fragmented moments rather than monumentality. Through distortion, softness and spatial ambiguity, his work seeks to reclaim emotional presence within the built environment, where identity shifts, visibility changes and even the sky must be rediscovered.

Selected Exhibitions

2026

In-Between Thresholds - London Design Festival, University of Westminster, London
Unanchored City - Domo Collective, Copeland Gallery, London
At 5am.. I woke up - Sept Curatorial, Filet Space, London
Beneath the Rift - Curator & Artist, Hypha X Eastern City Studios, London
Cache: Existing in the Threshold - Cut the Stem, The Rose Battersea, London
Composite - Finch Community Cinema, London
Apocalypse and After? - Hockney Gallery, London
In other Words - Qloud Collective, Corner Gallery, London
Unwired - Cut the Stem, The Rose Battersea, London
Surfacing - Hypha Studios HQ in Euston, London