Stefan Prakash Eicher

"My recent work seeks to break the ‘violence of naming’—the consequences of categorizing people according to single or simplistic identities—by breaking the ‘naming of violence’—transforming depictions of violence by undermining the ability to fit them easily into pre-existing visual categories. Through the creation of dislocating juxtapositions, visual layering, and the deployment of surrealism my work changes the substance and meaning of oppositional relationships and violent objects, in the process exploring the multi-valency of human identity and the connections between people. At a secondary level, within the context of war, and specifically Western interventions in the Middle-East and Central Asia, my work is also a critique of imperialism and power."

Stefan Prakash Eicher is a visual artist exploring questions of what it means to be human.  Stefan comes to art from a background in community development combining an MBA in International Development with an MFA in Visual Art.

Stefan was born and raised in India and is an Indian citizen.  In addition to helping found the Delhi-based arts organization Art for Change he has been teaching art at Woodstock School, Mussoorie, and Step by Step School, Noida.                

Selected Awards

Medallist, William M Plater Civic Engagement Medallion, 2017

Graduate Teaching Associate, Herron School of Art & Design, 2016 & 2017  

Co-Winner, $10,000 Great Places 2020 Public Art Prize, Indianapolis, 2016 

Fellow, Herron School or Art & Design, 2016

Fellow, Harrison Center for the Arts, 2015

Selected Bibliography

McDaniel, Craig and Jean Robertson.“Extreme Painting: Eyeballing.”Michigan Quarterly Review 56.1 (2017): 77-85. Print.

Moonan PK. “Tuberculosis—the Face of Struggles, the Struggles We Face, and the Dreams That Lie Within.” Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2018;24(3):592-593. doi:10.3201/eid2403.170128.