Born in 1973 in Kothanalloor in rural Kerala in southwestern India, Gigi Scaria completed his Bachelor’s degree at the College of Fine Arts in Trivandrum (now Tiruvanan-thapuram).  In 1995, he moved from his state’s capital to the nation’s capital where he completed a Master’s degree at Jamia Milia Islamia and began his artistic career as an illustrator of children’s books and a teacher at an experimental school.  Scaria has worked across numerous media, his artistic repertoire including paintings, photography, installation, sculpture and especially video art, of which he is a pioneer in India. His art has been exhibited across India and the globe, including numerous solo shows.  In 2010, Scaria participated in the West Heavens project in Shanghai, the first major artistic collaboration between artists from China and India. In 2011, he represented India along with four others in the 54th Venice Biennale in a project titled ‘Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode.’  He was also the 2012 University of Melbourne Macgeorge Fellow with a major solo show at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne. ‘Iconic Interruptions’ is the first solo exhibition of his recent works to be shown in an American university.