I take intense long walks in the industrial areas of the peripheral city Mumbai to collect my materials. I have been employing the industrial metal cut outs and jewellery items in almost all my works which is the root to my inspiration for visual art I create. I see my own Identity in these works because they define me with my nature of complexity trying to capture emotions of others in my art. Every person in this world has a different story, an identity of their own. Realizing these emotions as an artist I felt a desire to convert this into my art or give it a shape to define the identities I notice around me. I create artworks in which I depict people with portraits of their emotions; their individual identities together making an endless landscape. Every material used defines my way of research and work. Every piece has its own definition, a tale, an identity and its reflection is seen in the sculptures, installations and drawings I make. And I believe they stand strongly with its fragmented identity representing people, humans, us. I can be identified with the way I look at metal cut-outs as a design.

Born in 1972, L. R. Patil graduated from Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai India in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He received the K.K. Hebber Foundation Scholarship in 1994.In 1994 he also received the Camlin First Prize for the Final Year Annual show at Sir J. J. School of Art Mumbai. In 2000 he was awarded the Bombay Art Society Prize by M/S Hindustan Pencil Ltd.

UPCOMING RESIDENCY: Weir Farm Art center grants “artist-in-residency located within Weir Farm National Historic Site of the National Park Service Residency for July 1- 18, 2020 (Was an upcoming Residency but it was cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic and postponed in 2021)

In 2018 L.R. Patil was selected to be in the 6th Episode of URONTO Residential Art Program, Sylhet, Bangladesh. In 2017, he participated at the CIMA

AWARDS in the Kolkatta Art Festival India. His prominent solo shows have been in 2005 and 2013 at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. In 2008, he had a solo show at the Fine Arts Faculty, Baroda. He has also participated in several group shows and art camps. In 2009 he received a Postgraduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics from Jnanapravaha, Mumbai.

L.R.Patil is deeply concerned about the unholy nexus between fanatics of religion and self-serving politicians who tear apart the fabric of our society.

Man, who ought to be a thinker because he is blessed with a highly developed mind, unfortunately becomes a mere tool in the hands of these manipulative forces, which incite hatred and violence. The horrific destruction of the social structure is due to the loss of man’s humanity and spiritual inner core.

He has used different kinds of mediums to give an existential core to what he sees as a feeling of layers of oppression in an urban setting in which man feels as if he is constantly on the rack. Every work expresses what the reality is and what he truly feels.