Born in Loha Maharashtra, in 1990 finished B.F.A. Government School of Art Aurangabad & in 1993 M.F.A from Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai. Has won the following awards: 1990 Skech Club exhibition at Government School of Art Aurangabad; 1990-91 State Art Exhibition; 1991 Camlin Award in Annual Art Exhibition & Sir J.J.School of Art Mumbai; 1993-95 Art Society of India & 1996 Bombay Art Society. Has had his first solo in 2005 at Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai.Has participated in several group exhibitions: 1990 Balwant Vachanalaya, Aurangabad; 1991,93,94 Plaza Art Gallery Mumbai; 1991 Monsoon Show at Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai; 1994 at Artists Centre; 1995-97 Pradarshak Art Gallery, Mumbai; 1997 Golden India 50 years of Independence at Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai; 2000 Revolution 2000 at Jehangir Art Gallery; 2003 Gallery Yogkarta, Indonesia, Jakarta; & 2003-04 World Trade Exhibition Hall Indonesia, Jakarta. He has held joint exhibitions in 1996 at Jehangir Art Gallery & Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai. He has participated in numerous exhibitions: 1990-2000Tilak Smarak Trust Pune; 1990,91,93,95 The Arts Trust Society of India; 1991,93,94,96,98 Bombay Arts Society, 1993 Chatak Monsoon Show Nehru Centre Arts Gallery, Mumbai; 1994 Lalit Kala Academy Regional Centre, Lucknow; 1995,97,2001-01 Maharashtra State Art Exhibition; 1997 50 years of Art in Mumbai by NGMA Mumbai; 1998 41st National Exhibition of Art New Delhi; 46th National Exhibition of Art Kochi; 2000 Western Railway All India Painting competition at NGMA Mumbai; 2003 5th Western Region by Camlin Art Foundation & AIFACS Maharashtra State Art exhibition. Has attended the Up-Contemporary Painter’s Camp by W.Z.C.C.at Mumbai in 1991. Has traveled widely in India to study Contemporary Art at Cholamandalam Artist Village Chennai; Arts Acre Kolkata; Garhi Village New Delhi & Kanoria Centre for Arts at Ahmedabad. His works are in the collection of private and public places. He lives and works in Mumbai. ABOUT HIS WORK A man of few words, his creations also reflects the same trait; he believes if it can be said in one word then why use the entire sentence? He is not here to narrate a story through his works but rather represent the essential – the essence of life, nature but maybe using these or any other word would be restricting his repertoire. The works are not about one or the other aspect of life, but of the entirety of the experience. Rudrawar while speaking about his works is talking of the process. The gradual changes ……. Changes of the phases of the moon…. The changes in the tides of the sea , are some reference points for the artist to express his thought process. His paintings are shorn of any superfluous forms and are the bare essentials required to convey his experiences. They are minimalist. Few forms recur within the space and the entire body of work. Seemingly static, but embedded in each is an energy. Energy not waiting to burst, but an energy derived from mediations. Mediation, meditation, concentration, a sensitive rendering of what is experienced in the silence of mind. Sensitive to the space it occupies, the space it doesn’t occupy the space that it is. Form and space….space and form, the eternal quest to find the perfect balance, a preoccupation with Rudrawar. Pre-occupied he may be but his paintings are liquid and flow easily….rhythmic encounters of subtle nuances.