I am an artist-researcher working across performance, video, installation, and community collaboration. Depending on the idea, I sketch, sculpt, screen-print, or step into character, whatever it takes to bring a concept to life. My current enquiry centres on low-tech artistic methodologies that prioritise energy restraint and human encounter. Born in New Delhi and trained in India and the U.K., I work at thresholds where rural and urban rhythms meet, where private and public worlds collide, and where everyday materials can be recast into new ways of seeing.
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Over the last two decades, I have presented solo exhibitions in New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and New York, and group exhibitions across India, South Africa, Malaysia, Spain, and the U.K. In 2011, I received the Gold Medal in Video Art at the Florence Biennale. These contexts let me test form and method in public and keep expanding the studio into spaces of dialogue and shared making.
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Since 2011, I have co-founded and co-run the Art For Art Foundation, a residency and mentorship programme for emerging artists across India. A4A shapes much of my time and research. Working closely with mentees has sharpened my enquiry into tools and ethics. I write simple AI scripts, build Raspberry Pi prototypes, and pursue low-energy approaches that let technology support human stories. From this work, I coined Anthrosolix, a term that joins anthro, for the human, with solix, from solstice, to describe practices that turn on the meeting of people, environment, and invention. I am the author of the Anthrosolix paper on mentorship as a bridge between arts education and arts practice.
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This commitment to pedagogy also led me to co-found ChampaTree Art Gallery and The Create Studio. ChampaTree presents ambitious work by emerging artists in India. The Create Studio offers hands-on workshops, portfolio coaching, and bespoke programmes for institutions and groups. Alongside curating I have advised on cultural and environmental manifestos and served as a spokesperson for a national political party in New Delhi. As a mother, I treat care as method, which shapes how I build teams, mentor artists, and hold space in public projects.
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When I am not in the studio or gallery, I teach, write, and build low-energy interactive prototypes. I travel for residencies and field research, and notes from riverbanks, classrooms, and workshops often return to the studio as scripts and scores. I am at home where ideas and people meet.
Professional Practice
2010 - present
Since 2011, Art For Art (A4A) is supporting emerging artists through residency programmes, structured mentorship, fellowships, and need-based scholarships. The foundation conceives and delivers public art projects, workshops, and curated exhibitions that connect rural contexts with metropolitan audiences. A4A facilitates dialogue among artists, curators, writers, and scholars; invites visiting mentors; and provides production support and presentation opportunities. Through digital platforms and low-energy publishing, the programme extends access, documentation, and critical reflection. Alumni present work via open studios, publications, and partner venues, building durable networks and professional pathways. A4A’s model combines practice-led learning, peer exchange, and community engagement to strengthen artistic careers and cultural ecosystems.
2016 - present
2016 - present
Co-Founder
The Create Studio
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2016-2020
Spokesperson,
Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee
Chairperson,
Delhi Congress Research Department
ChampaTree Art Gallery is a contemporary platform presenting rigorous, curator-led exhibitions by emerging and mid-career artists from India and beyond. Founded in 2016, the gallery foregrounds access and affordability through clear editioning, fair pricing, and public programmes that invite new collectors. ChampaTree serves artists, audiences, and institutions by pairing critical context with market insight.
Co-founding a creative space run by practising professionals was inspired by my passion for pedagogy and curriculum development in visual arts. Our team conducts short courses at top schools and colleges, guiding students on portfolio development and providing career counselling in the arts. The aim is to encourage the uninitiated to explore the practice of visual art and design. With over 1000 hours of workshop time, The Create Studio has also served large corporations like Google, John Lewis and IBM along with various private institutions.
While heading the political research in New Delhi, I was invited as a Sherpa to a develop a manifesto for art and cultural heritage for the Indian National Congress, a leading political party in the country. The assignment required extensive research in history and anthropology, as well as benchmarking global best practices.
Publication
2025 Mentorship as a Bridge Between Arts Education and Arts Practice: Insights from the A4A Virtual Residency and Mentorship Program
2020 Aisi Hogi Humari Dilli, Research head, co-editor and design head, Delhi Congress Committee, Manifesto for Assembly elections
2019 Congress will Deliver, Sherpa, Indian National Congress Lok Sabha Election, Manifesto for Art, Culture, Heritage and Environment and Climate Change2017 100 days of BJP in Municipal Corporation of Delhi, A poll khol campaign by Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee, Research head, co-editor and press in charge.
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Selected Art Camps & Residencies
2025 All About Curating, Art Intensive, Berlin, Germany
2024 SIM Artist Residency, Iceland
2023 Skaftell Artist Residency, Iceland
2015 Global Nomadic Art Project, Nature Camp, Vadodara, India
2014 Magam New, Nature Art Camp, S. Korea
2012 Bangla-Indo Art Camp, Bangladesh and Cross-Over exhibition, New Delhi
2011 Ceangal Art Camp, Gairloch, Scotland
Marve Art Camp, Mumbai
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Awards 2011
VIII Biennale International dell’arte Contemporanea Di Firenze
Gold Medal Winner – Video Art category
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Fellowship -
TAAS Fellow Art & Gender, Fall 2023
Co-curation | Advisory
2025 New on New, a group show 25 new emerging artists at Gallery Champatree
2024 The Art For Art Foundation, Virtual Residency and Mentorship Program. Art For Art Foundation offers two cycles of three-month virtual residencies per year for four emerging Indian artists (each cycle). The program provides financial support and mentorship to the artists without requiring them to leave their personal creative spaces.
2020 Scars of Scarcity, Arts4All, New Delhi
2017 Nature Connect, Hungarian Cultural Centre & Arts4All, New Delhi
2013 Batting for Art, A travelling exhibition in support of Arts4All with Delhi Daredevils, Indian Premier League
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Solo Shows
2013 Blow Horn, Chawla Art Gallery, Delhi
2012 Blow Horn, New Art Center, New York
2011 Kalakriti Gallery, Hyderabad
2010 Art Chutney Gallery, Bangalore
2007 Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi
Select Group Shows
2025 India Art Fair, Wonderwall Gallery, Delhi
Traversing Boundaries: Contemporary Female Artists of India, SPIN Gallery, University of Texas, Dallas
Ramayana, Pravasi Bharatiya Divas exhibition by ICCR, Bhuvaneshwar
2022 Time Perspectives, BUMF Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth
I Keep Smelling Fire, Video and NFT, India Art Fair, New Delhi
2020 Monsoon 2020, group show with Champatree, New Delhi
2017 Nature Connect, Hungarian Cultural Centre, New Delhi
2016 Forms of Devotion, Conde Duque, Madrid | Casa de la India, Valladolid, Spain
2015 And Still I Rise, The Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi
Global Nomadic Art Project, Nature Camp, Vadodara
India Yoga Chakra, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
Forms of Devotion, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi | China Art Museum, Shanghai
2012 India Art Fair, Kalakriti Gallery, Hyderabad, sculpture and video lounge
2010 Dotted by Intervention, Oblong Gallery, London
Savera Foundation Art show, New Delhi
Video Screenings, Delhi International Arts Festival
2008 Ki Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Stuart Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Khushi Foundation Art Show, Bangalore | Mumbai
2007 Florence Biennale
2006 Harmony Show, Mumbai
2005 The Artist and Her Muse, Pooja Bahri and Paresh Maity, New Delhi
2004 Art for Vision, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi