Sunil Pawar is a London-based artist / art director, whose practice explores identity, resilience, and cultural memory through painting and research-led processes. His work holds a sense of endurance, suggesting bodies and minds navigating constraint, momentum, and survival.
Informed by a foundation in DJ and sound system culture, sport, and street aesthetics, Pawar’s visual language sits between bold traditional portraiture and vibrant abstraction. Considered marks, symbols, and forms behave like signals, transmitted, interrupted, and received. He is renowned for his exploration of the nuanced parallels between historical sporting pose and the timeless themes of battle, survival and resilience.
His multidisciplinary practice moves fluidly between institutional contexts, galleries, and public-facing collaborations, bridging art, design, fashion, audio and future-facing technologies.
Pawar has exhibited internationally, including The Tate Modern, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Stern Pissarro Gallery, St.James’s London (solo show) and Somerset House.
Artworks in the permanent collection of the Wellcome Collection, London.
At the age of fifteen, Pawar walked into the North London studios of Soul II Soul with a school bag full of paintings and sold them all. This early experience set the blueprint for his practice. Today, his work continues to fuse disciplines while maintaining authenticity, craft, and cultural relevance.
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SOLO SHOWS
‘A New Happening’ / Gavin Watson. Bureau Space,
‘World of Sports’ Capsule room, Ap-art, West London
‘Warrior Charge’ South Audley street, Mayfair.
Nesta Space London (national endowment for science, technology and the arts headquarters)
‘A Show of Force!’ The Stern Pissarro gallery, St. James’
The Royal Academy / Academicians Room, Audio/DJ performance.
‘Helium’ Number Eight Members club, London
‘Supersonic’ The Reebok Lounge, London
‘Back in Full Force!’ The Brick Lane gallery opening show
Harvey Nichols Knightsbridge full six window takeover
'Warrior Charge' Bureau Space, Clerkenwell
‘Flawless’ Flawless Diamond Jewellers, Bond Street
‘Bodyrock’ Phonica Records/ Vinyl Factory, Soho
‘Supastar’ AKA/The EndGROUP SHOWS
‘Step Inside’ Somerset House
‘Truthfully Yours’ Lost Horizon Festival
Propa Tee x Katherine Hamnett, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo
Robert F Kennedy Human Rights, Barack Obama Ripple of Hope prize giving,New York
Raw Messina ‘ Open Studio Milan
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma
AFI, The Saatchi Gallery
King & McGaw Print show, Old street tunnels
The Tate Modern ‘ Tanks’
Pasley Tyler members club installation
‘Outside in’ The Drake, Toronto.
The Bloomsbury art fair, London
Ap-art gallery summer shows 2004-2015
‘Asia top gallery art fair’ Hong Kong
Fabrik Gallery Hong Kong
‘Stark’ Berlin fashion week show
‘Love will bring us apart’ Scion Space, Los Angeles
‘Hoover Show’ Las Vegas lofts, Las Vegas
‘Noborders launch’ Noborders, Hong Kong
Taj Hotel, St. James’ Court, Buckingham Gate
‘House of Yamake’ Nokia show, London
‘Boxing art for Amir Khan’ prism at Harvey Nichols
‘Noborders first anniversary’ noborders, Hong Kong
‘Creative syndicate’ Les Trois Baudets, Paris
‘Speed’ Goodwood festival of speed
‘Ap-art gallery’ Bals Tokyo
Pop goes mayfair! The Belgravia Gallery, Maddox street
‘Enzimi festival’ Rome -
Make Poverty History, Big Issue, Paris Saint-Germain x Clown Skateboards, Yoshio Kubo, Charlie Dark, Carl Craig, Junya Watanabe / Comme Des Garcons Tokyo (signature artist for three capsule ranges) Levis, Harvey Nichols (full frontage window display) Knightsbridge, UCLA, Hiut Denim, Woolrich Woolen Mills and BALS Tokyo.
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(Highlights) HypeBeast. High Snobiety. Idol Magazine. “Love and Money” Liz Farrelly (Laurence King) Dazed + Confused Magazine. “Stencil Graffiti” Tristan Manco (Thames and Hudson) IDN 15 book. Creative Review. Anglomania Magazine. FACT Magazine. New Order Magazine. DJ Magazine. SlamxHype. Stickerbomb Letters (Laurence King Publishing) CNN Worldwide. BBC Arts.
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SUNIL PAWAR STUDIO
New Wing
Somerset House
The Strand
London
WC2R 1LA