Riyas Komu graduated with Painting as his specialization and has since than extended himself to sculpture, photography and video installations. Komu was a participant in the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007 curated by Robert Storr. Other museum exhibits include Shadow Lines curated by Alia Swastika (Indonesia) and Suman Gopinath (India) at Jogja Biennale, Indonesia; Paris-Delhi-Bombay, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Crossroads India Escalate, Prague Biennale5; Concurrent India, Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland; India Awakens: Under the Banyan Tree, Essl Museum, Austria; Finding India, Art for the New Century, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Emerging Asian Artists, as part of Art Gwangju 2010, KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju; Indian Highway, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark; India Contemporary, GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hague; India Now: Contemporary Indian Art Between Continuity and Transformation, Provincia di Milano, Milan, Italy; India Xianzai: Contemporary Indian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai; Modern India, organized by Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture at Valencia, Spain. His recent solo shows include 2010 Subrata to Cesar, Gallery Maskara, Mumbai in association with The Guild, Mumbai and Safe to Light, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran.
