KUART.EDU.NP - Key Persons
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- Visiting Faculty / Animation
Anil Shahi has completed his BFA from Kathmandu University and MFA from Tribhuvan University. He is the recipient of the Australian Himalayan Foundation Art Award and held a solo exhibition at Siddhartha Art Gallery in 2014.
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- Brand Executive at Nepa Hima Trade Link P. Ltd
- Visiting Faculty / Photography
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- Visiting Faculty / Printing Tech and Typography
Thapa is a sculptor who also creates installations, site specific works. He has attended in various workshop such as, journey towards the earth, MT. Everest-8848 ART Project I, interactive 3D sculpture. He has also worked as an instructor in art engineering workshop at Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel.
Thapa is also the Former Assembly Member of Nepal Academy of Fine Art (NAFA) and the president of the ‘Arambha' Contemporary Nepali Sculptors' Group and is associated with many other art organizations. He is involved in many group exhibition in Nepal and other countries such as Nepal -America Art exhibition, 15th Asian Art Biennale, Bangaladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka. He is actively working in the field of creating various sculpture in search of new dimensional language.
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- Visiting Faculty / Graphic Communication
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- Visiting Faculty / Photography
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- Lecturer / Graphic Design
Diwas Raja Kc is currently the Head of Research & Archives at Nepal Picture Library where his work has focused on engendering a research-based approach to art, archival, and curatorial practice. His curatorial projects include Dalit: A Quest for Dignity, The Public Life of Women, and The Skin of Chitwan. He is also a documentary film editor.
Amina worked as a management consultant in the development sector for almost a decade conducting assessment studies, reviews and evaluations for NGOs, INGOs and multi/bi-lateral agencies. She earned her PhD from the Centre for Research in Learning and Change at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2015 exploring adult learning in everyday experience. Amina currently works as an independent researcher and educator exploring issues in educational governance, educational leadership, community development, adult learning and social transformation. She has been an adjunct faculty at Kathmandu University School of Management (KUSOM) teaching courses on Qualitative Research Methods in the MPhil and Masters in Public Policy and Management program. Amina serves on the board at Teach for Nepal. She is also an executive member of the University of Nepal Development Board.
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- Visiting Faculty / Filmmaking
Fidel Devkota is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist from Nepal who has been active as a filmmaker, anthropologist, photographer, and lecturer for the past decade. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Film Studies, MA, and PhD in Visual Media Anthropology. His films, photography, publications, and research works are mainly focused on human-environmental relationships, addressing the themes of spiritual, social, and economic transformation in a time of environmental and political change in the Himalayas. . His broader interests and research area include environmental, visual, and applied anthropology, Himalayan art and anthropology, Heritage studies, Tibetan studies, film and media studies, and filmmaking.
Gopal Ale Magar is associated with KU Art+Design since the time of its inception in 2003.
Jagadish Upadhya is a passionate photographer who strictly practices film. He's been actively involved with the medium for the last three decades and intends to continue in time to come. Through Photography, Jagadish tries to instill a simple framework of life, inadvertently establishing a justifiable way of lifestyle.
His interest goes beyond the just the visual aspect of photography. He believes in fusing different techniques; experimenting with various alternate printing methods to express that his practice and lifestyle is as one. Capturing people in their daily lives and festivities of his hometown Kathmandu is where he keeps his shooting practice alive. Recently, he's been exploring his relationship with water, delving in the idea of a flow. Jagadish had constantly been on the move. He left Kathmandu in his late teens for Russia, then to Paris and finally to America before coming back and settling in Kathmandu. His photographic journey started in Paris but obtained formal education in the States. Photography gave him the stability he wanted in life.
In his free time, he loves to explore about plants, aliens, alternative lifestyles and make his own furniture out of junk. To continue this passion and to pass down the skills of analogue photography he now runs a collective along with his friends under the name film foundry.
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- Visiting Faculty / Photography
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- Visiting Faculty / Printmaking
Kabi Raj Lama is a PrintMaker based in Kathmandu .He graduated from Kathmandu university Department of Art And Design in 2009 and went japan to study print making in 2011 at Meisei University.
He is the recipient of Harvard(South Asia Institute )Visiting Arts Fellowship 2018 . His work has been exhibited at Machida National Print Museum Tokyo 2014, Ome city Art Museum Tokyo 2014, The third Binhai international Printmaking camp Exhibition ,Tianjin Art Museum china 2019, National art Gallery Sofia Bulgaria,2018 , ,Fukushima Biennale Japan 2016, Welt museum Wien Nepal Art Now Exhibition 2019, Belt and road International printmaking exchange exhibition The palace museum Beijing 2109, III International lithography exhibition steindruck Munchen, Munich Germany 2018 and Serendipity Arts Festival 2016.
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- Newar Artists
- Visiting Faculty / Traditional Art Practice
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- Visiting Faculty / Materials and Methods
Manita Shakya is reliable, success-driven and competent as an administrative assistant with 9+ years' hands-on experience in clerical and executive support tasks. Well versed in performing a variety of administrative tasks. producing and corresponding reports, and maintaining and updating office records. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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- Head of Department
- Chairman / Associate Prof. KU
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- Principal / Sirjana College of Fine Arts
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor / KU
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- Director, Siddhartha Art Gallery
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- Srijanalaya
- Visiting Faculty / Art in Education
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- Visiting Faculty / Campaign Design, Integrated Project and Design Principles
Nirmal Rana, is a dedicated and a multi-disciplined designer with a strong design background in the field of Architecture, Interior Design, Product Design, Graphic Design and Photography. Having worked in Singapore, China and now currently based in Nepal, he has more than 10 years of professional design, teaching and management experience.
With his practical design, teaching and management experiences, he has been able to bring about valuable and much needed reforms through his creative design thinking and work philosophy, in the design industry, corporate sector and educational institutions.
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- Visiting Faculty / History / Critical Theory / Dissertation
- Writer, Editor
Pranab Man Singh is a writer, editor, and translator. He currently works at Quixote's Cove and Satori Centre for the Arts, both companies work to support the creation of art and literature. He is an Assistant Editor at La.Lit, and his writing and translations have been published in several books, magazines, and newspapers. At KU Art+Design, he has been teaching art history and critical theory since 2010 and has been on the BFA Dissertation Committee since 2018.
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- Visiting Faculty / Photography
Born in Mustang, Nepal, Pratima Thakali received a BFA in Visual Arts (2011) and MA in Art and Design Studies (2014) from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan. She works with various mediums and techniques but holds a specific interest in the notion of memories. Thakali's works are process-based, allowing for experiments and discovery within the subject and medium. In her role of teaching studio art at Kathmandu University, School of Arts, Department of Art and Design, she believes teaching art is one of the thresholds to create artistic vibes amongst the young art students and explore in Visual Arts.
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- Visiting Faculty / Writing and Rhetoric Workshop
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- Visiting Faculty / Graphic Communication
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- Visiting Faculty / Research Documentation and Archiving
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- Visiting Faculty / Graphic Design
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- Associate Dean
- Associate Professor