Born in 1979 in Andhra Pradesh, Kasa Vinay completed his BFA in 2000 and MFA in 2004 from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai. The ideas that presently occupy his mind are the dominance of money in society and how they manage to ‘convert everything, including my thoughts, into currency’.
EDUCATION:
M.F.A ( Painting ) (2004 – 2006),Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai.
B.F.A. from Govt. College of Fine Arts,Madras University. May 2004
PROJECTS :
SEA SPACE during the year 2006
INDIAN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTS during the year 2004
SCHOLARSHIP:
ARNAWAZ VASUDEV CHARITIES SCHOLORSHIP ( 2009)
AWARDS
- TAMILNADU STATE AWARD from department of art and culture 2014
- 12th STATE LEVEL AWARD from Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (2009)

EXHIBITION PARTICIPATED :
- 2015 TAMIL NADU STATE LEVEL ART EXHIBITION, Egmore Museum, Chennai. 2014 REGIONAL ART EXHIBITION Lalitkala Akademi Chennai.
- 2013 THE EMERGING CANVAS: AN INDO – KOREAN YOUNG ARTIST'S EXHIBITION Korea.
- UNITED ART FAIR 2013 New Delhi.
- 2012 THE EMERGING CANVAS : AN INDO – KOREAN YOUNG ARTIST'S
- EXHIBITION Lalitkala Akademi Chennai.
- 2010 MADRAS CANVASin Kola Lumpur Singapore.
- 2009 52nd NATIONAL EXHIBITION of ART, Kolkata.
- 2007 50th NATIONAL EXHIBITION of ART , Chandigarh.
- 2009 12th STATE LEVEL ART EXHIBITION, Potti Sriramulu
- Telugu University, Hyderabad.
- 2008 8th BHARAT BHAVAN INTERNATIONAL BINENNIAL of
- PRINT- ART, Bharath Bhavan , Bhopal.
- 11th STATE LAVEL ART EXHIBITION, Potti Sriramulu
- Telugu University, Hyderabad.
- 2002 OVIA NUNKALAI KUZHU" Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai.
GROUP SHOWS:
- 2015 WITHIN WITHOUT SHOW, Art Houz Gallery, Coimbatore.
- WITHIN WITHOUT, show at Art Houz Gallery, Chennai.
- BUDDHA THE GLORIOUS LIGHT, show at Ailamma Art Gallery Hyderabad.
- 2014 REGIONAL ART EXHIBITION Lalitkala Akademi Chennai.
- 2013 AN EXHIBITION OF THE AKARMA SERIES group Show shilpa architects.
- AN SOUTH WEST MELANGESHOW, Prakrit Art Gallery, Chennai.
- 2012 AN INTERSTITIAL INTIMACY PRINT, Group Show Aakriti Art Gallery Kolkata.
- ART EXHIBITION,Baroda.
- EDGE TO EDGE, Art Gallery, Dakshinchitra, Chennai.
- 2011 12 CONTEMPRORARIES Exhibition of Paintings by 12 Artists,
- Icon Art Gallery , Hyderabad.
- MONSOON SHOW, Sri Parvathi Gallery,Chennai
- CONTOUR , Kasturi Srinivasan Trust Art Gallery, Coimbatore.
- 2010 CONTOUR, Gallery of Alliance Françoise from Puducherry.
- CREATION ON MIDDLE ORDERgroup show on Sri Parvathi chennai MADRAS CANVASin Kola Lumpur Singapore
- Lining the Wall,Forum Art Gallery, Chennai.
- 2009 BETWEEN THE LINES Group Show at Lalitkala akademi , Chennai.
- 2008 BETWEEN THE LINES Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai.
- HYDERABAD ARTIST GROUP Show,Icon Art Gallery Hyderabad.
- GEN NEXT V, Aakriti Art Gallery Kolkata.
- GROUP SHOW, exhibition of paintings & drawings, gallery space , hyderabad.
- CREATIONS on MIDDLE ORDER, Gallery Sri Parvathi ,Chennai.
- LINING THE WALL, Forum Art Gallery, Chennai.
- BESH, BESH, BESH !, Prakrit Art Gallery, Chennai.
- ART FUSHION 2009, Nehru Art Centre, Mumbai.
- BETWEEN THE LINES, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai. (Fund raising show for
- the Sri Lankan Tamilians )
- DOUBLE TAKE, Prakrit Art Gallery, Chennai.
- CHENNAI to DELHI via HYDERABAD,Group Show Lakshana Art Gallery, Hyderabad.
- 2007 MONSOON CAMP Group Exhibition at Apparao Art Gallery, Chennai.
- THE ART of INVESTMENT, Coimbatore.
- ART of INVESTMENT, Ashvita Art Gallery, Chennai.
- ARTY FLYS' Group show at State Gallery, Hyderabad.
- 2005 MEIPORUL Group show at Lakshana Museum of Aarts, Chennai.
- TSUNAMI PAINTING & SCULPTURE EXHIBITION' in Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai.
- 2004 AT DIFFERENT PHASES Group Show at Vinyasa Art Gallery, Chennai.
- THIRD VISION, Group show at Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai. CHOLAI ACTION for Child Labour Contest exhibition, Chennai.
- 2001 ART EXHIBITION, District Central Library, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh.
CAMPS:
- 2016 VARNAVIRASAT INTER NATIONAL PAINTERS CAMP, Organized by SUNDARI ANANDA ALVAS CAMPUS, Vidyagiri, Moodbidri.
- 2015 INTER NATIONAL ART CAMP, Vadodara, Organized by I T M University, Vadodara.
- 2012 NATIONAL ART CAMP, Srinagar, Organized by Prakriti Art Gallery Chennai.
- 2009 47th NATIONAL ART FESTIVAL CAMP, Shillong, Meghalaya.
- 2007 CREATIVITY and MONSOON CAMP, Kerala, Organized by Apparao Art Gallery, Chennai.
- 2006 M.F.A PAINTING CAMP, Coimbatore, Kothagri, Karikyur and Kovilpatti.
- 2003 HERITAGE ART CAMP conducted by Ministry of Tourism, Chennai.

Artist: KASA VINAY KUMAR
Title: UNTITLED
Medium: MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER
Size | Year: 22" X 30" | 2010