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
2026 DEPTFORD X WEEKENDER, Deptford, London, UK (forthcoming: 2nd – 4th October)
2026 OUT OF THE BLUE, New House Art Space, Guildford, UK (31st July – 30th August)
2026 WHILE WE ARE HERE, N. Atelier, Glasgow, UK (25th June – 07th July)
2026 ACE OF WANDS, St.Margaret’s House, ScotArt, Edinburgh, UK (25th June – 4th July)
2026 ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION, Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh, UK (18th April – 24th May)
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 SCENES 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 – 1 & 2, Loess Collective, Hypha Studios, Stratford, London (Jan – March 2023)
2023 ART 23, Urmila Art Gallery, Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad, India (22-26 February)
2022 RESIDENCY SHOW/OPEN STUDIO,, 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 Award (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
2023 – Ongoing Gallery Educator at National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2026 Edinburgh Walkshop, Neuk Collective, Edinburgh, UK
2022 Wreath Making at Christmas Market at Faber and Faber, London, UK
2019 Invited to facilitate an elective course, Introduction to Book Binding, IPSA, Rajkot, India
2021 Invited to facilitate a material exploration workshop on Ceramics and Pottery, Indus Design School, Indus University, Ahmedabad, India
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 residents of Richmond, London (February 2025)
- Workshop Facilitator: Taste the Difference at Hypha Studios, Stratford (February 2023)
- Artist Talk at Gallery Ra, Ahmedabad (19 July 2022)