LAUNCHED SOUTH ASIA'S FIRST EVER GLASS MAKERS CLUB
M. Sasidharan graduated from the College of Fine Arts Trivandrum and completed his MFA in Mural design from M.S. University Vadodara. He was awarded under the Cultural Exchange between India and Sweden, the Swedish Institute Scholarship to study glass at the Academy of Fine Arts Stockholm, Sweden as well as the Charles Wallace Scholarship, U.K., to study glass as an artistic medium at the College of Art, Edinburgh, UK. In 2000, he won the Kerala State Award for Painting. His notable international exhibitions among others are: 'Six Young Artists’, Festival of India’ Sweden, 1987; 'Crossing the Black Waters' Asian and British– Asian Artists in the U.K. 1992; ‘Through the Looking Glass’, Ostergotlands Lansmuseum, Linkoping, Sweden, 2006; ‘Incisive Instincts’, Tamarind Art Gallery, New York, 2010; Smart Art Gallery, Germany, 2012-13. Sashi has exhibited widely nationally in both solo and group shows. Recently in 2023, he participated in 2 exhibitions by The Glass Makers Club, Glass Menagerie and The Hourglass.
He has been visiting faculty at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Visual art Department, AMU, Aligarh; NID Ahmedabad and at IICD, Jaipur. His artist residencies have been at the University of Lancashire, Glass Sambandh Sweden, Harmony Art Foundation, Mumbai and most recently “Winter Narratives” international artists in residency organized by Art Core, UK in Vadodara. M. Sasidharan currently teaches painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, in Vadodara,Gujarat.