Visual Artist and Art Educator
Gallery Educator at National Portrait Gallery London, Families, Young People, Adults and School Outreach Programmes | Freelance Art Educator | Former School Art Teacher India and London
EDUCATION
2022 – 2024 Goldsmiths University of London, UK, MFA Fine Art
2020 – 2021 Jnanapravaha, India, Postgraduate Certificate course – Aesthetics, Criticism & Theory
2016 – 2020 Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, Bachelor in Visual Arts, Painting, Drawing, Pottery & Ceramics, Printmaking
2015 – 2016 Kanoria Centre for Arts, India, Certificate course – Fine Arts Foundation
2012 – 2015 St.Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, India, Bachelor of Science – Zoology
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Blue Gold, Deptford X Fringe, Lewisham Art House, London (12-27 July)
2024 THIS LANGUAGE REMATERIALIZED, Palimpsest Projects, One Paved Court Gallery, London (26 September to 20th October)
2024 ORIENTED BY DIALECT: THOSE DIFFRACTED AMONG US, University Women’s Club, London (August – September)
2024, MAH MEL, Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Degree Show, London (July)
2024 OPEN: Wide – IV, Open205, Deptford, London (July)
2024 Young Collectors’ Weekend Global, Cultivate Art, South Asia and International (27- 30th June)
2024 DUST AND SHAPES: MODERN MIGRATION AND BELONGING THROUGH FOOD, Pushkin House, London
2024 NON-SENSE, Group Show, Exhibition Hall, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda, Vadodara (February)
2023 FRUITS OF OUR LABOUR, Inigo rooms, Somerset House, London (December 2023)
2023 PRIVATE VIEW, Individual display, Interim Show at Goldsmiths MFA, London (July 2023)
2023 HESTIA, Deptford Quirks Gallery, London (May 2023)
2023 Taste The Difference, Group show by Loess Collective, Hypha Studios, Stratford, London (Jan – March 2023)
2022 Residency Show, Space Studio Baroda, Vadodara
2022 SHIMEESHA Group Show, Exhibition Hall, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda, Vadodara
2021 Students’ Biennale (4th edition) of Kochi-Muziris Biennale (Virtual)
AWARDS
Inlaks Scholarship (2022-2024), Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, Scholarship to pursue a Master in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2022 Artist Residency at Space Studio Baroda, Vadodara (1st December 2021- 31st March 2022)
WORKSHOPS
2022 Wreath Making at Christmas Market at Faber, London
2019 Invited to conduct an elective course, Introduction to Book Binding, IPSA, Rajkot, India
2021 Invited to conduct a material exploration workshop on Ceramics and Pottery, Indus Design School, Indus University, Ahmedabad
TALKS, PRESENTATIONS, & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
- Critical Reading and Discussion at One Paved Court, Richmond, Palimpsest Projects – Maps as Palimpsests: Critical Readings and Discussion (October 2024)
- Workshop Co-Facilitator: World Building from Tactile Language (October 2024)
- Workshop Facilitator: Collage Workshop for the community (February 2025)
- Workshop Facilitator: Taste the Difference at Hypha Studios, Stratford (February 2023)
- Artist Talk at Gallery Ra, Ahmedabad (19 July 2022)