Muvindu Binoy (b.1989, Colombo) is a multidisciplinary artist who for the last decade has been setting the trend in the digital space, challenging conventions and adopting technological shifts with bold unhinged creativity. The artist’s negotiation with generative AI and the endless repository of images available through the internet becomes a testament to the flux created by rapidly expanding fields of information and Binoy’s mastery in finding compositional harmonies within the ensuing clamour. Binoy creates digital collages that mediate existence in modern society and ‘online’ realities with satire and absurdist humour. Binoy through his digital engagement explores themes of gender, agency, identity and the contradictions of traditional values and contemporary realities through the digital manipulation and doctoring of images. The artist instinctively and innately responds to generated imagery, creating a final composition that overflows with a striking visual surplus while bearing a distinct signature.
Binoy’s work has been featured in solo presentations at Saskia Fernando Gallery and Dots Bay House as well as group presentations at Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles (2024), KALĀ, Lionel Wendt Art Centre, Colombo (2024), India Art Fair, New Delhi (2023), Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2023) Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2022), Jawahar Kala Kendra, New Delhi (2019) and the Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo (2016).
Binoy has also been involved in unique collaborations that exist at the intersection of music, film and fine art including ‘One Night Only’ a collaboration with musician Kunal Merchant and Rajiv Menon Contemporary by IndoWarehouse (2024). He was selected for the Cité Internationales des Arts residency in France (2021) and the Ya Connect Artist-in-Residence in Sri Lanka (2019).