Sunil Pawar is a London-based artist / art director, whose international 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, The Saatchi Gallery, Stern Pissarro Gallery, St.James’s London (solo show) and Somerset House.

Special projects include Paris Saint Germain, Harvey Nichols (full building display), Clown Skateboards and Comme Des Garcons /Junya Watanabe (capsule ranges)

Coverage includes HypeBeast, CNN, BBC, Highsnobiety, The New Order, GQ Magazine and Dazed.

At the age of Fifteen, he 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.

Artworks in the permanent collection of acquisitions in The Wellcome Collection, London. (2026)

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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 End

    GROUP SHOWS

    Secret Sevens / Warchild Auction 2025
    ‘Step Inside’ Somerset House
    ‘Truthfully Yours’ Lost Horizon Festival. Curated by Malcolm Garrett.
    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
    The Tate Modern ‘ Tanks’
    Pasley Tyler members club installation
    ‘Outside in’ The Drake, Toronto.

    ‘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. Masterpiece London, Chelsea

  • Make Poverty History, Big Issue, Paris Saint-Germain x Clown Skateboards, Niwaki, Yoshio Kubo, Charlie Dark, Carl Craig, Junya Watanabe / Comme Des Garcons Tokyo (signature artist for three capsule ranges) Levis, Diesel s.P.a Milan. Harvey Nichols (full frontage window display) Knightsbridge, UCLA, Hiut Denim, Woolrich Woolen Mills and BALS Tokyo.

  • J MAGAZINE INTERVIEW

    (Highlights) HypeBeast. High Snobiety. Idol Magazine. “Love and Money” Liz Farrelly (Laurence King) Proper Magazine. Dazed + Confused Magazine. GQ 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.

  • SUNIL PAWAR STUDIO
    New Wing
    Somerset House
    The Strand
    London
    WC2R 1LA

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