Arunkumar H.G completed his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Fine Arts (Sculpture) at M S University of Baroda.

In 2014 he has set up the Centre for Knowledge and Environment (www.saracentre.org) in the Western Ghats region of Karnataka, India.  

Arunkumar's solo shows include: Con-struction at Gallery Espace New Delhi, In-site, Aicon Gallery New York, 2018; Seed of Reckoning Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai
, 2012; Tract, Nature Morte, New Delhi, 2010; Feed, Nature Morte, New Delhi, Sakshi Gallery Mumbai 2006. 

Selected group shows: Kochi Muzris Biennale, 2018; BAT at Bhubaneswar, 2018; 'Embrace Our Rivers' Goethe-Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai, 2018; Sculpture by The Sea, Sculpture Biennial Aarhus Denmark, 2015; The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Contemporary Indian Art, part of Festival of India in China, 2015; Beyond Limits at San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, 2014; Aesthetic Bind Citizen Artist: Forms of Address, Chemould, Mumbai, 2013; Art and Activism in India Since 1989, The SAHMAT Collective, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
 2013: Zones of Contact, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida, India 2013; Cosmopolitan Stranger, Open University of Diversity, Hasselt, Belgium,
 2012;

Important Artist Residencies: Art Omi international Artist Residency, New York, 2011; Artist in Residency, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 2007 & 2002;  KHOJ International Artist-in-residence, New Delhi & Modinagar, 2000.