PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Dedication to the subject, Integrity of Teaching and Creating
Works of Art, Continuous Practice, and Rigorous Training.
MAJOR EDUCATION
2014 MFA (Painting) New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of
Figurative Art, New York, NY, USA
2014 Old Master’s Paintings Studies at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, NY, USA.
2008 BFA (First class Hon) Painting; University
of the Visual & Performing Arts (UVPA), Colombo07, SL.
OTHER EDUCATION
2016 Certificate in Korean Language, Kyung Hee University, Seoul,
South Korea.
2012 International English
and Professional Program; University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
HONORS / SCHOLARSHIPS/ FELLOWSHIP
INTERNATIONAL
2018-2019 (Dec- Jan) Visiting
Professor and Art Residence, Fine Art Department, SOJO University,
Kumamoto, Japan.
2016 Fellowship: Art Major Faculty Explore Korea (AMFEK), Korea National
University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea.
2012 - 2014 Fulbright Advanced Research & Lecturing Award, For Master of Fine Arts at the
New York Academy of Arts. United
States – Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission. CMB, SL
2014 the Joan Brady Award provided by
Trustee Margot Gordon, New York Academy of Art, NY, USA.
2014 Second Year Merit Scholarship, New
York Academy of Art, NY, USA.
2013 First Year Merit
Scholarship, New York Academy of Art, NY, USA
NATIONAL
2002-2008 Four years of undergraduate scholarship (monthly stipend), by UGC, Colombo, 07, SL.
2003-2004 G.S. Fernando Scholarships, UVPA, Colombo 07, SL.
2002-2003 Stevens Hanson Scholarships, UVPA Colombo 07, SL.
1999-2000 E.C.B. Wijesinghe Scholarship, UVPA and Tower Hall
Theater Foundation, Colombo 07, SL.
ACADEMIC AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
From 2009 to 20th April 2023 Fultime faculty member and Senior Lecturer in Painting, Department of
Painting, Faculty of Visual Arts,
University of the Visual & Performing Arts (UVPA), Colombo 07, SL.
OTHER ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD
From May 18, 2018, to May 7the 2021: The Head of the Department of Painting. FVA- UVPA.
Senior Lecturer in Drawing and Painting, Department of Painting,
Faculty of Visual Arts, UVPA.
CURRENT PROFESSION Artist, Curator and Independent Researcher
Solo Exhibition
2023 The Exhibition of TRauma-Stigmata, Harold Peries Gallery, Colombo 07, SL. 2016 the exhibition of Skins, 175 Gallery – Korea National University of Art, Anguk, Seoul,
South Korea.
2011 the exhibition of The Symbolical Impossibility of Disavowing
Trauma, Harold Peries Gallery,
Colombo 07, SL.
2008 the exhibition of Trauma, Harold Peries Gallery, Colombo 07, SL.
Selected
Group Exhibition
2019 One Won, Fundraising exhibition for the victims of 21
April Attacked in Sri Lanka.
2016 Reflection Exhibition of Cuban & Selected Sri Lankan Arts,
JDA Perera Gallery, Faculty of Visual
Arts, Colombo 07, SL.
2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition,
Wilkinson Gallery, New York Academy of Art, NY, USA
2014 Copying paintings at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Academy of Art, NY, USA
2013 Drawing, New York Academy of Art, NY, USA
2012 Heads New York Academy
of Art, NY, USA
2011 Exhibition of
Contemporary Cuban and Sri Lanka Artist: Reflection, Havana, Cuba
(Commemorate the 52nd Anniversary of Diplomatic
Relations between Sri Lanka and Cuba. The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Havana. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Havana, the National
Council of Plastic Arts of Cuba, the Cuban National Commission of UNESCO, and
the Wilfredo Lam Centre for Contemporary Art).
2011 Exhibition of Sri Lankan
Contemporary Arts, Asia House, London, UK.
2010 Exhibition of Expression of Independence & Serendipity,
JDA Perera Gallery, The Faculty of Visual Arts, University of the Visual &
Performing Art (UVPA), Colombo 07, SL.
2010 Opening Art Exhibition Of JDA Perera Gallery (Academic Staff), The Faculty of Visual
Arts, University of the Visual & Performing Arts (UVPA), Colombo 07, Sri
Lanka.
2008 Expression of
Independence, the Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France.
2007 Exhibition of Sri Lankan
Arts, Organized by George Keyt Foundation, National Art Gallery, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka.
2006 New Artists, the George Keyt Foundation, National Arts
Gallery, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka.
2006 Young Contemporaries,
the George Keyt Foundation, National Arts Gallery, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka.
2005 Tsunami DARK-DEC Fundraising exhibition, The Faculty of the Visual Arts, University of the
Visual & Performing Arts (UVPA), Colombo 07, Sri Lanka.
WORKSHOP & CAMP
July 2011 Exhibition of Contemporary Cuban and Sri Lanka Artists: Reflection, Havana, Cuba
February 2011 SAAC Artist Camp “KERELA
GREEN”, Trivandrum, India.
ART PRIZE
2006 second Prize at the exhibition of Young Contemporaries,
Organized by the George Keyt Foundation, Colombo, SL.
2005 Consolation Prize,
State Painting and Sculpture Award Festival.
2002 Consolation Prize of
Population poster contest- jointly organized by the Population Division of the
Ministry of Health & UNFPA.
CONFERENCE
2018 Examining the Idea of Monochrome Represented in Contemporary Art. 9th
International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, Athens Institute for Education and
Research, Athens, Greece.
2016 The Origin of the World: its
Iconic Place in the History and Contemporary Arts, 7th International Conference on Visual and Performing
Arts, Athens
Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece.
2015 Representation of Trauma in
Contemporary Visual Arts, 6th International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, Athens
Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece.
ART TALKS
2019 Trauma and Other Works: Fine Art Department, SOJO University, Kumamoto, Japan. 2019 Students Works of the Department of Painting, Fine Art Department, SOJO University, Japan. 2015 Painting and Dying: works
from 2005 – 2015, At the Center of Archives of Sri Lankan Contemporary
Art and Architecture, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
PUBLICATIONS
Kulasekara, D (2018) “Examining the Idea of Monochrome
Represented in Contemporary Art”, Athens: ATINER’s Conference Paper Series, NO: ISBN: 978-960-598-199-0
Kulasekara, D (2016) “Representation of Trauma in Contemporary
Arts”, Athens: ATINER’s
Conference Paper Series, NO: ART2015
-1907. ISSN: 2241-2891
Kulasekara, D (2016) “The Origin of the World: its Iconic Place in
the History and Contemporary Arts”, 7th
International Conference on Visual and Performing Art (P 37) Abstract Book, First Published in Athens, Greece by the
Athens Institute for Education and Research. ISBN: 978-960-598-053-5
Kulasekara, D (2015) “Representation
of Trauma in Contemporary Visual Arts”, 6th
International Conference on Visual and Performing Art (P 46) Abstract Book 4 First Published in Athens, Greece by the Athens
Institute for Education and Research. ISBN:
978-960-598-002-3
CURATED EXHIBITION
2023 Trauma-Stigmata, Harold Peries Gallery, Colombo07, SL. 2023 Mater and Materiality: New Body of Works by Students of Level 4, at the Department of Painting. JDA Perera Gallery, Faculty of Visual Arts, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka. 2016 the exhibition of Skins, 175 Gallery – Korea National University of Art, Anguk, Seoul,
South Korea.
2011 Symbolical Impossibility of Disavowing Trauma, (in association with
Paradise Road Gallery) Harold Peries Gallery, Colombo 07, SL.
2008 Trauma, Harold Peries Gallery, Colombo07, SL.
ARTWORKS IN COLLECTION
Private Collections in Austria, Australia, Bangkok, Belgium, England,
France, India, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Paradise Road Collection in Sri
Lanka.
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The 1950s was a period that marked significant changes that happened on both the super and infrastructures of Sri Lanka. Such changes were reflected in cultural lives and their productions made within that context. In particular, from a political, social, and cultural point of view, the year 1956 was significantly traced as a period that the mainstream ideological belief of the country was turned into another direction (maybe with a belief of a positive future). At that time the state of the country thought that the roots of Sri Lankan energetic forces had been hidden, therefore, such forces should be re-generated. It formed a new political movement with empowering native five great forces. In this text, I am not going to discuss such issues and areas, obviously, it is another research. The reason that I slightly mentioned such historical background is because the subject of this text; "the Red Youth" (pic: 1) was painted in the year 1956. In 2018 (I cannot remember the exa