Suvigya Sharma

Suvigya Sharma was born on 28 July 1983 in Jaipur^[12] of Indian state Rajasthan to R.K. Sharma, an artist. He did his schooling from Maharaja Sawai Mansingh School and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Vidyashram. Later he graduated from Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata. He also studied Foreign Trade & Export Management from Symbiosis International University, Pune.^[1] He started painting at the age of seven. He used to teach dance way back when he was a teenager, said in an interview with DNA.^[13]

Suvigya has worked on fresco^[14] in Jaipur and other places like Havelis in Udaipur and Kishangarh, Jama Masjid's gold leafing, a few section of Jaipur City Palace, Bungalows, Dargah, heritage properties in different part of India.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

Some of his clients for whom he painted, includes L. N. Mittal, Sachin Tendulkar, Narendra Modi,^[20] Priyanka Chopra,^[21] Aditya Chopra, Rani Mukherji^[22] Sanjay Dutt, Manyata Dutt,^[23][24] Kangana Ranaut^[25][26] B. S. Yediyurappa,^[27] Virat Kohli,^[28] Justin Bieber and business families such as the Ambanis, the Birlas, the Burmans, the Singhanias, the Piramal, the Bajaj.^[1][29] Suvigya has also painted for PM Narendra Modi, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Dalai Lama.^[30]

Sharma's artistic creations have been publicly unveiled by figures such as film actress Kangana Ranaut, Madhoo, Rani Mukherji^[31] chef Vikas Khanna and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.^[32][33] The unveilings took place at various events that were organised by the artist himself. Notably, several of Sharma's artworks incorporate 24 carat gold as a material component.^{[34][35][36][37][38]}

He has been exhibited in galleries and museums such as Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, Cymroza Art Gallery, Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery,^[39] Chitrakoot Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Artisans Art Gallery^[1][14] He designed the cover page of chef Vikas Khanna's cookbook Utsav, which had its worth ₹35 Lakh ($51,590.00).,^[30][40] Gallery Navrathan^[27] and Vasantha Art Gallery.^[41]

On 4 October 2016, Suvigya gifted Sachin Tendulkar with a handmade memento -a custom-made gold-leaved and gold-embossed bat with a 24 carat gold handle at the opening of his show The Art of Royals, reportedly by Times of India.^[32][33]

On 10 May 2017, during The Purpose Tour concert in India, Suvigya Sharma commissioned a life-size oil on canvas portrait for Justin Bieber^[42] and presented it to him at St. Regis in Lower Parel, Mumbai.^[43] In May, 2017, he commissioned a lifelike portrait for prime minister Narendra Modi.^[44][45]

In 2021, Suvigya created a series of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) featuring artworks focusing on wildlife. The collection includes depictions of the near-extinct polar bear and rhinoceros placed against highly detailed hyper-realistic 3D backgrounds.^[46]

In June 2016, Suvigya Sharma participated along with artists Uddhav Thackeray, Ajay De, Sudharak Olwe, Brinda Miller, Rajiv Menon in fund raiser art-exhibition for Nargis Dutt Cancer Foundation in Mumbai, which was organized by Priya Dutt.^[49][50]

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Suvigya's wife name is Charu, and the couple has a son named Abhigya.^[2]

In January, 2017, he was appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador of Rajasthan by Smile Foundation.^[53]

In September 2021, the International Delphic Council appointed Sharma as an Honorary Member of the Advisory Board Maharashtra with the aim of promoting art and culture.^[54] In 2023, he was inducted into the list of 'Prominent Rajasthanis' by the Government of Rajasthan.^[55]

• List of Indian artists
• List of people from Rajasthan