BIOGRAPHY

I’m Divyam Raghunath, a London-based artist working across painting, digital media, installations, and moving images. My practice explores the shifting nature of identity, perception, and spatial transformation, deeply shaped by my own experiences of movement across cities like Patna, Sydney, Singapore, and now London.

Lately, I’ve been investigating the politics of visibility and sky-access in rapidly urbanising spaces. My recent works including The Sky Colony, use upward-looking videography, projection, and public interventions to question who gets to see the sky in cities dominated by private high-rises and architectural gatekeeping. This builds on my ongoing interest in the relationship between humans and the built environment between intimacy and alienation, rootedness and dislocation.

I create spaces, both physical and digital, that invite viewers to reconsider how we relate to architecture, to each other, and to the emotional landscapes of home and belonging. My paintings, meanwhile, allow me to dwell more quietly on memory and place, often translating personal experience into abstract forms and textures.

I’ve shown work internationally at venues including the Royal College of Art (London), Hockney Gallery (London), The Stainless Gallery (New Delhi), HEARTH Gallery (Singapore), and Alliance Française de Singapour. I’ve also been part of public art projects and festivals such as Singapore Art Week, Artwalk Little India, and Marina Bay Sands.

Currently, I’m completing my MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art (2025), after receiving a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (2021), and a Graphic Design Certificate from CalArts (2022).

Parallel to my artistic practice, I’ve worked as an Art Director in advertising—developing campaigns for brands like Durex, Veet, Mountain Dew, and IndusInd Bank with agencies like HAVAS and Leo Burnett. This hybrid background continues to influence how I think about visual communication, public space, and the politics of representation.

At the core of my work is a search for emotional resonance within systems of transition, fragmentation, and change.

Work Experience

HAVAS Worldwide (Advertising Agency)

Art Director.
February 2024 - July 2024

PUBLICIS GROUPE

- Leo Burnett (Advertising Agency)

Art Director.
January 2023 - January 2024

Leo Burnett- Creative Design team

Visual Design intern in advertisement. August 2022 - October 2022.

Zee Tv & DreamCatchers (Asia), 2022

Art Director for the movie ‘Dominoes’ (out soon).

Mural Lingo, Singapore

Mural artist at MuralLingo. 2020-22.
Painted murals at YTC PowerSeraya, Ministry of National Development, Machan’s Kitchen, CTC Headquarter, TOLL Logistics Asia Headquarter, Decathlon, Lyf Co-living, National Environmental Agency, Hotel Andaz Singapore.

Little Artists' Art Studio, Singapore

Art Teacher at the art studio, 2020-2021.

Art & Deal Magazine (2020)

2 months Internship which included writing articles and prepare marketing surveys.

wework- art & graphics team

Worked as an intern for 2 months in the Art and Graphics team in 2019.

Yishun Community, Singapore (2021)

Painted a Mural for Yishun Community Singapore.

Groom My Room: Season 11

Actor and Muralist for the TV Series 2021.

Raffles Fashion Show 2021

Fashion model at Raffles Fashion Show 2021.

Ccmonsterart, Singapore

Freelance Artist at the Studio (2021-22).

Colors TV (asia), 2021

Assistant Director at Mr & Master Cook Season 4.

Artisan Hans, Singapore

Freelance Artist at the Studio (2021-22).

Exhibitions

RCA Degree Show, London 2025

Studio Building at the Royal College Of Art, London

Hockney Gallery, London 2025

Hockney Gallery, at Royal College Of Art, London

Placeless Spaces 2025

Placeless Spaces, Cap Space at Royal College Of Art, London

Living Archives 2025

Living Archives, Cap Space at Royal College Of Art, London

CONFLUENCE, 2024

CONFLUENCE'24 Group Art Exhibition hosted by Welham Old Boys' Society at The Stainless Gallery.

Fresh Cut, 2023 by Nrtya Culture.

Group Art Exhibition hosted by Nrtya Culture at Saket SOCIAL, New Delhi.

CONFLUENCE, 2023

CONFLUENCE'23 Group Art Exhibition hosted by Welham Old Boys' Society at The Stainless Gallery.

Singapore Art Week, 2022

Live Painting with Musical Orchestra Performance for ArtWalk Little India 2022, part of Singapore Art Week 2022.

Converging Biographies 2021

Art Exhibition at Hearth Gallery by Art Outreach in Gillman Barracks, Singapore from 15th July - 21st July 2021.

The LASALLE Show 2021

Exhibited artwork at ICAS Gallery from 21st May - 20th June 2021.

Prologue - Winstedt Graduation show

Exhibited Installation artworks from my series "Visual Diary". 2021

The Unseen: A Precursor

Exhibited photography series from my performance "I Love Your Skin" at a Virtual Group Exhibition.

Root_Re:root - a work-in-progess show

Exhibition of work-in-progress installation artwork at ICAS Gallery from 5th March till 24th March, 2021.

One Night Only 2020- A Lasalle show

Exhibited a performance and a Video Art at Lasalle's One Night Only Show on 27th November 2020.

Art Spectra 2020

Exhibited artworks at All India Online Group Exhibition.

MUSAFIR - a cultural art event

Exhibited artworks for 2 of it's events named as 'Ankahi' and 'Pinjra'.

One Night Only 2019- A Lasalle show

Exhibited a painting and a Video Art at Lasalle's One Night Only Show on 8th November 2019.

In Flux: a work-in-progess show 2019

Exhibition of work-in-progress paintings at Alliance Francaise de Singapour from 5th Feb til 29th Feb, 2020.

URA Project 2019- Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore

Public Art for Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore. Designed and Painted Boulders near Marina Bay Sands.

Singapore Art Week 2019

2 Live Painting sessions (Ticket experience of fine dining with live painting). ArtWalk Little India

Education

Royal College of Art, London

Class of 2025
MA Contemporary Art Practice

California Institute of the Arts

Class of 2022
CERTIFICATE Course in Graphic Design

LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

Class of 2021
BA(Hons) Fine Art
GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

Welham Boys' School, Dehradun

Class of 2018
High School Diploma.
Scored aggregate of 92% in CBSE Board Examinations. CBSE merit Distinction Grade 10. School Art Captain 2017-2018.

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