“Each canvas is a journey beyond
destruction—where imagination,
memory, and resilience meet.”
Hareendran Chalad is a senior Indian artist based in Kannur, Kerala,
with over four decades of artistic practice. His abstract works explore
memory, imagination, and human experience through rich textures and
layered forms. After losing decades of work in a gallery fire, he
returned to art with renewed depth and resilience. Today, his practice
reflects endurance, renewal, and a lifelong commitment to creation.
Hareendran Chalad
Artist
Chalad, Kannur,India
“Each canvas is a
journey beyond
destruction - where
imagination,
memory,
and resilience meet.”
Hareendran Chalad is a senior Indian artist based in Kannur, Kerala, with over four decades of artistic practice. His abstract works explore memory, imagination, and human experience through rich textures and layered forms. After losing decades of work in a gallery fire, he returned to art with renewed depth and resilience. Today, his practice reflects endurance, renewal, and a lifelong commitment to creation.
Hareendran Chalad
Artist
Chalad, Kannur,India
PAINTINGS
FOR SALE
AT BEFORE THE TRUSE.
An exploration of time and
the human psyche, where
intellect and instinct
confront each other.
Fragmented structures
mirror the complexity of
memory, identity, and inner
struggle
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size:188cm x 94cm
Size:200cmx100cm
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year of execution:2017
Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 188cm x 94cm
A R T W O R K S
A STATEMENT OF PRAISE
“Hareendran Chalad is a multidisciplinary
artist whose four-decade-long practice
bridges painting, jewelry design, and
experimental media. His works,
combining local and global idioms, offer a
sharp and often sarcastic critique of
contemporary consciousness. His
innovation and vision have rightly earned
recognition from Kerala Lalithakala
Akademi.”
Dr. A.T. Mohanraj,
Art Critic
“Standing before Hareendran Chalad’s
‘Anatomy of Homicide’ exhibition is a moment
of stunned silence. His works, born of the
present historical moment, converse with the
viewer emotionally and precisely, revealing the
cruelty of headless empires and the
annihilation of cultural landscapes. The fusion
of colors and metaphors, achieved through
relentless artistic discipline, leaves no human
conscience untouched. The series of smaller
canvases, sharp and calculated, satirizes
contemporary hegemonic powers with
uncompromising clarity.”
Rahman Kozhukkallur, Artist & Retired Art
Teacher, Kozhikode
