About
Kunel’s work examines how meaning accumulates around objects, systems, and images. Drawing from the visual languages of technology, branding, architecture, and everyday life, he recontextualises familiar forms as vessels for memory, speculation, and cultural projection. 

His practice often begins with systems designed for utility, from signage and interfaces to typography and hardware, and explores what emerges when their original purpose is suspended. Alongside his studio practice, he has built a broader creative language that connects contemporary art, branding, and cultural production.


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Exhibitions
Solo | ABRI MARS 
New York, 2025
Solo | Method
New Delhi, 2025
India Art Fair | Curated by Method
New Delhi, 2025
Method at Art Mumbai
Mumbai, 2024
Portrait Of A Time | Method Kala Ghoda
Mumbai, 2024
ABRI MARS 
New York, 2024
Gagné Contemporary
Toronto, 2024
The Other Art Fair
New York, 2024
Artist Project 
Toronto, 2024
(Systems), India Art Fair | Curated by Method
Delhi, 2024
Typogram® | DesignTO 
Toronto, 2024
The Other Art Fair
New York, 2023
(Systems) India Art Fair | Solo | Method
Delhi, 2023
Futur Proche | Group Show | Apre Art House
Mumbai, 2022
Solo | Information Architecture | Method
Mumbai, 2021
Solo | Folklores From Future | AGENC Colab
Delhi, 2020
Projects
Ather
Simp My Ride
Adidas Originals EQT
Equipment
Absolut
Absolut Warhol
Almost Gods
Bricolage / Indian Art Fair
Casetify Travel Line
A travel object
Nike
Nike Delhi represent
Dell
Dell futurist
Budweiser
Budweiser streetwear
Casetify
Function as form
Monotype
Helvetica the NFT
Jeen-yuhs
Sundance hoodie
Press
‘Templating isn’t the enemy; mindless execution is: Kunel Gaur of Animal’
Social Samosa
July 18, 2025

‘India Art Fair Concludes Successful 16th Edition’
Designboom
February 17, 2025


‘Brutalism x Streetwear: Almost Gods & Kunel Gaur Will Collaborate at India Art Fair 2025’
Homegrown
February 06, 2025


‘Kunel Gaur’s sculptural works fuse function, technology, and brutalist aesthetics.’
Blur The Border
2025


‘The Collaborative World!’
Creative Gaga
2025


‘How Kunel Gaur’s art is a dialogue between Brutalist architecture, pop culture and time’
DesignTO
August 14, 2024


‘Exhibition at India Art Fair digitally explores urban details’
Architect and Interiors India
February 12, 2023


‘Helvetica, the world’s most popular font, serves as a unifying force in a new NFT collection’
It’s Nice That
July 19, 2022


‘Kunel Gaur uses everyday material in his solo show at Method art space’
STIRworld
March 18, 2022


‘How Kunel Gaur’s art is a dialogue between Brutalist architecture, pop culture and time’
Architectural Digest
February 16, 2022


‘Ad Agencies in Web 3.0: Get crackin'’
Forbes India
February 3, 2022

‘Information Architecture’
Platform Mag
January 5, 2022


‘In-Progress Lettering Series: Kunel Gaur’
The One Club
April 9, 2021


‘Kunel Gaur’s Generic Brands’
Vogue Taiwan
March 16, 2020


‘Defining a New Indian Aesthetic’
TEDx
October, 2019


‘Three top creatives from India to serve as judges for The One Show 2020’
BestMediaInfo
December 4, 2019


‘Who is this Animal’
afaqs!
December 20, 2018


‘Design in India: featuring Animal’
DESK
June 13, 2018


‘Taxi Fabric Project’
Designboom
April 19, 2015       
Projects

Animal

Post-physical


Kunel Gaur


Kunel Gaur is a multidisciplinary artist and founder whose practice moves across art, design, and culture. His work explores the emotional and symbolic life of objects, systems, and materials, often blurring the line between function and presence. 

Signs of life¹


Signs of Life brings together four interconnected bodies of work — Colour Field Studies, Interface Portraits, KUMI, and Tile Assemblies — tracing an ongoing exploration of the space between sensorial experience and engineered form.

Across the exhibition, colour, pattern, typography, and industrial materials are treated as signals within larger systems of communication and perception. 

Drawing from design, technology, popular culture, and everyday infrastructure, the works examine how contemporary life is shaped by the structures, codes, and interfaces that surround us. Familiar visual languages are reassembled into forms that feel at once functional and symbolic, suggesting presences that are neither entirely human nor purely mechanical, but something emerging between the two.
Positioned between object, image, and system, Signs of Life reflects on the increasingly blurred boundary between the emotional and the engineered, asking how meaning, identity, and memory continue to manifest within a world built through networks, technologies, and designed environments.


Kunel Gaur

Astraform at Rest, 2025

Stainless Steel, Wood, Cold Cathode,
Ceramic Tiles
W 13.5 x H 20 inches
W 34.3 x H 51 cm


Kunel Gaur

Aureolin Drift 01, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 13 x H 18 inches
W 33 x H 45.7 cm

Kunel Gaur

Aureolin Quiet, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 14.5 x H 22 inches
W 37 x H 56 cm

Kunel Gaur

Chromatic Rift, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 14.5 x H 22 inches
W 37 x H 56 cm


Kunel Gaur

Enceladus Alpenglow, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 15 x H 22.5 inches
W 38.1 x H 57.1 cm

Kunel Gaur

Ferric Saffron Accord, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 31 x H 21 inches
W 78.7 x H 53.3 cms

Kunel Gaur

Formaldehyde, 2025

Acrylic, Wood, Pigment on Canvas,
Stainless Steel, Hardware, Car Seat
Belt
W 19 x H 22 inches
W 48.25 x H 56 cm

Kunel Gaur

Helios Standstill, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Ceramic Tiles, Cold Cathode, Car
Seat Belt
H 41 x W 12 x D 12 inches
H 104 x W 30.5 x D 30.5 cms


Kunel Gaur

Heliospheric Calm, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 18 x H 24 inches
W 45.7 x H 60.9 cm

Kunel Gaur

Hematin Field, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.

Kunel Gaur

Horizon Smudge, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment, Car Seat Belt
W 19 x H 24 inches
W 48.25 x H 60.9 cm

Kunel Gaur

Ion Blue Phase, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 13 x H 17 inches
W 33 x H 43.2 cm

Kunel Gaur

Janus Field, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 16.5 x H 16.5 inches
W 42 x H 42 cm

Kunel Gaur

KUMI 400, 2025

Acrylic on MDF, Pigment on Canvas
W 18.5 x H 14.5 inches
W 47 x H 37 cm

Kunel Gaur

KUMI 402, 2025

Acrylic on MDF, Pigment on Canvas
W 13.5 x H 13.5 inches
W 34.3 x H 34.3 cm

Kunel Gaur

KUMI 403, 2025

Acrylic on MDF, Pigment on Canvas
W 16 x H 13 inches
W 40.64 x H 33 cm

Kunel Gaur

KUMI 404, 2025

Acrylic on MDF, Pigment on Canvas
W 15 x H 21 inches
W 38.1 x H 53.3 cm

Kunel Gaur

KUMI 405, 2025

Acrylic on MDF, Pigment on Canvas
W 11.5 x H 13.5 inches
W 29.2 x H 34.3 cm

Kunel Gaur

Licensed Lucidity, 2025

Acrylic, Wood, Pigment on Canvas,
Stainless Steel, Hardware, Car Seat Belt
W 19 x H 17.5 inches
W 48.25 x H 44.5 cm

Kunel Gaur

Opaline Rose, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 13 x H 16 inches
W 33 x H 40.6 cm

Kunel Gaur

Overwatcher 33T7, 2025

Acrylic, Wood, Pigment on Canvas,
Stainless Steel, Hardware
W 15 x H 17.5 inches
W 38 x H 44.5 cms

Kunel Gaur

Pink Beach, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 13 x H 18 inches
W 33 x H 45.7 cm

Kunel Gaur

Quinacridone Rest 02, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 17 x H 21 inches
W 43.2 x H 53.3 cm

Kunel Gaur

Rayleigh Interval, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 14.5 x H 18.5 inches
W 37 x H 47 cm


Kunel Gaur

Sanguine Interface, 2025

Acrylic, Wood, Pigment on Canvas,
Stainless Steel, Hardware
W 19 x H 19 inches
W 48.25 x H 48.25 cm

Kunel Gaur

Schwarzschild Earth, 2025

Acrylic, Wood, Pigment on Canvas,
Stainless Steel, Hardware, Winch
Strap
W 19 x H 19 inches
W 48.25 x H 48.25 cm

Kunel Gaur

Spectral Terminator, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 18 x H 24 inches
W 45.7 x H 60.9 cm

Kunel Gaur

Stoichiometric Blue, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 15 x H 24 inches
W 38 x H 61 cm

Kunel Gaur

Strontium Drift, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment. Nylon Cable
W 12 x H 18 inches
W 30.5 x H 45.7 cm

Kunel Gaur

The Dual Oris Condition, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Ceramic Tiles, Cold Cathode
H 27 x W 16 x D 16 inches
H 68.5 x W 40.6 x D 40.6 cms

Kunel Gaur

Trefer Class Signograph, 2025

Acrylic, Wood, Pigment on Canvas,
Stainless Steel, Hardware, Stainless
Steel Struts
W 18 x H 26 inches
W 45.7 x H 66 cm

Kunel Gaur

Ultramarine Offset, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 13 x H 19.5 inches
W 33 x H 49..5 cm


Kunel Gaur

Vermilion Descent, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 19 x H 24 inches
W 48.25 x H 61 cm

Kunel Gaur

Vermilion Duskfront, 2025

Acrylic, Stainless Steel, Wood,
Canvas & Pigment.
W 13 x H 23 inches
W 33 x H 58.4 cm

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