Sumant Jayakrishnan is a scenographer, designer, and installation artist who is based out of New Delhi. He transforms spaces and creates beauty for a range of contexts around the world. He builds in elements of imagery, video mapping, calligraphy, lighting, performance and installations for projects across disciplines, whether Theatre, Dance, Art, Film, Fashion or in the world of Events. Jayakrishnan has been a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Arts Award (1994), the Sanskriti Award (2001), and the Fulbright Arts Fellowship (2002). Some of his projects include Deepa Mehta’s film Water (Art Direction), Tim Supple’s multilingual play The Midsummer Nights Dream (Stage and Costume Design), The India Art Fair, and The India Pavilion for the London Design Biennale. He has also worked extensively as a set designer in the world of Indian Fashion and as an impresario and designer for the big fat Indian Wedding (India and the world). Apart from that he has been the designer for conceptual events for Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Moschino, Dior, Steinmetz, Swarovski and Bulgari in India.

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