South Florida Multidisciplinary Artist Sri Prabha Is A Master Of Video, Installation, And Mixed Media

Sri Prabha is a multidisciplinary artist who integrates into his aesthetic process, tenants of geography, nature, time, human origins, and the cosmos. His works manifest across a range of mediums that include installations, video, light art, sculptural paintings, and sound. His artistic training includes the Cornish College of the Arts and a Masters in Clinical Psychology.

Sri Prabha won the 2016 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, was named “Best Visual Artist 2015” and included in “10 Visual Artists You Need to Know” (2016) by Broward Palm Beach New Times.

Recent shows include the historic south Florida survey show 100+Degrees in the Shade, an expansive solo installation at Young Art Museum, and an immersive space outpost install at The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. Other exhibits include The Deering Estate, Boca Raton Museum of Art, pop up installations at the Dupont Building, the Ingraham Building, downtown Hollywood, public art video installations in the streets of Fort Lauderdale, and his work is in the permanent collection of the Orlando Museum of Art.

The artist is the recipient of numerous awards, such as inclusion in The Photo Review Competition Issue (2015), Broward Artists grant, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, and National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center artists’ residency. Sri received the Innovative Artist Award at Fraker Scott Gallery, and the Juror’s Award from Smithsonian Affiliate, Annmarie Sculpture and Arts Center.

Sri’s videos were shown in Resfest, garnered the Ford Motion in Drive video award, and his title design work was shown on PBS. He has taught photography and mixed media at NSU Museum of Art, and taught at Film Arts Foundation and Expression Center for New Media in San Francisco. His works are in several private collections in Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, New York, Washington, DC, and Copenhagen.

This past May 2019, Sri’s work, ‘Spaceresearchcentre’, AKA Southern Lights, via the Transmutable Central Dharma Gateway Incorporating the 5 Known Elements, was exhibited at the Orlando Museum of Art. The exhibition opened on May 19, 2019 and was on view through August 19, 2019. The installation was conceived as a non-terrestrial environment that transports the visitor to an alternate plane of thought, free from everyday stress and worries. Concepts for the environment coalesced from Indian Vedic knowledge, John Muir’s conservation ethics, Native American connections to the natural world, and contemporary thoughts in science relating to our understanding of the universe.

Spaceresearchcentre features immersive video projections lighting up sculptural assemblages, paintings, and photo-based works; evoking forms reminiscent of geometries, crystalline shapes, primordial plants, and outer space. In this work, analog and digitally constructed video footage of seeds, galaxies, flora, and fauna spill across the floor, ceiling, and walls, creating an immersive interconnected world. As viewers interact with the installation, they become active participants within the artwork, their own shadows moving, spinning, and existing. Kinetic images engage viewers to seriously consider how they relate to the natural world and encourage finding deeper connections to it.

“I want my art to be inclusive, to engage everybody on their own terms,” explained Sri of his work. “I don’t use people in my art for a reason, because then it represents something specific, it becomes THAT. My characters are nature, space, elements. I didn’t jive with art school because it had a certain philosophy. I did agree with the Dada School which connected to installations, freewheeling thought, disconnection from reality and connecting with universal consciousness. In my work it’s more important how it makes people feel and when they are in the installation it completes the work.”

Sri Prabha will have his studio open for scheduled viewings and visits during Art Basel Miami Week 2019, taking place December 3 – 8, from 10am – 2pm in an upcoming showcase where art goers will experience a unique art event, “Miami Basel Week Open Studio” by appointment only. Collectors and art aficionados will experience the work of contemporary artists Sri Prabha, Lori Nozick and Elaine Defibaugh in an intimate setting within the personal art studios of the artists during Miami Art Week. Sri Prabha Artlab is located at 7338 NW Miami Court in Miami, Florida 33150 – Studio #113.

For more information about this fascinating artist, for general inquiries, sales or commissions, call (786) 220-2774 or email sri@sriprabha.com and visit www.sriprabha.com