Deo Rai
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Resume
Deo Rai
515-339-9418
raidbantwa@gmail.com
Visit: https://raidbantawa.wixsite.com/mysite-3
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Education
2011- BA Tribhuwan University Kathmandu Nepal
2011-2014- Kathmandu University center for art and design
2019- University of Northern Iowa (BFA)
2020- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Skills/works experience
Sketching
Drawing
Painting
Sculpture
Ceramics
Printmaking
Photography
Designer
Mural painting
Collage
Mosaic
Pauva / Thanka painting (old nepali traditional painting style)
Mixed Media
Performance
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Group Exhibitions
2010 - “The Life Under the Shadow”, Sanischare Refugee Camp, Nepal
2012 - “The Breath of Refugees’, Beldangi Refugee Camp, Nepal
2014 – “4th National Art Exhibition”, Nepal Art Council Building, Babarmahal, Kathmandu Nepal
2013 - “Initiation” printmaking exhibition, Park Gallery, Kathmandu Nepal
2016 - “Anne Frank Project” (Buffalo State University)
2017 - Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, UNI cedar falls, Iowa
2018 - earned the UNI Department of Communication Studies Merit Award." Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition". UNI Cedar Falls, Iowa
2018 - "Who Cares?" The University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
2018 - Cedar Valley Biennial Art Exhibition. Waterloo, Iowa
2019 - BFA show
2019 - Mystic Echos (group performance Paintings with poetry and Nepali instrument Sarangi. Buffalo, New york
Professional Activities
2005-2014 - Art instructor in Institute of Fine art and commercial art.
2006-2008 Art teacher for “Bhutanese Refugee Children” (Volunteer in Nepal)
2007-Three months watercolor workshop training is given in Bhutanese refugee camp of eastern Nepal
2012- Volunteer in the “Kathmandu International Art Festival, Kathmandu Nepal
2016- Visiting Artist Lecture, Buffalo State University, Buffalo, New York
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Member
Institute of Fine Art and Commercial Art, Bhutan
Everest art Fusion Nepal
Door contemporary art Nepal
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Collection
Sculpture, University of Northern Iowa, Kemerick Art Building Lawn, Cedar Falls, IA
Biography
Deo Rai
Deo Rai is a material-based artist, who lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. He was born in Bhutan and brought up in a Refugee camp in Nepal. In his childhood, he grew up doing realistic still-life, portraiture, and landscapes. Later he experimented with abstraction with different mediums. He is a current MFA student at the School of the art institute of the Chicago, who finished his undergrad from the University of Northern Iowa and postbaccalaureate from SAIC. Mr. Rai has been filing his skills in various mixed media for the past several years. Arriving at SAIC has been one of the windows to extend the range of his talent even further. His works owe his childhood memories and his life experiences in a refugee camp to the United states.