About me
I am a visual artist based in New Delhi, India. I collaborate with individuals and clients on for projects that explores a range of concepts, mediums, and artistic processes to achieve the final form.
For the past two and a half years, I have worked as a Curator and Project Anchor at Conflictorium, a museum of conflict, based at Raipur, Chhattisgarh, which is also my hometown. In this role, I focused on setting up a permanent museum, designing its overall experience, and aligning it with the region's art and culture sensibilities. . I led the project to establish the entire permanent museum from the ground up and curated numerous exhibits and events over the last two years. The museum acts as a reflective lens on identities, cultures, history, and contemporary issues through meaningful conversations, carefully curated exhibits, workshops, and events.
My postgraduate studies in Photography Design at NID have shaped my personal projects, which explores contemporary social and emotional landscapes via visual storytelling. I explore communities, and alternate cultures, while using visual medium to understand, question, unlearn and relearn.
Exhibitions
2024 : Memories from Homeland
'Enchantment' : A Projection Showcase at Angkor Photo Festival 2024, Cambodia
2023 : Politics, Protest, Poetry
Film screening program : Music, Dissent, Spaces, Harkat Studios, Mumbai
2021 : Politics, Protest, Poetry
Online Film Screening, Indie Music Film Festival
2021 : Memories from Homeland
Print Installation, Art Block 2.0, Q417, Bhilai
2020 : Beyond ninety minutes
3-Channel Video Projection, Art Block, Q417, Bhilai
2019 : Memories from Homeland
Group Print Exhibition, Krishnakriti Art Festival, Hyderabad
2019 : Off the coast
Group Print Exhibition, Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai
2019: Politics,Protest,Poetry
Film Screening, Irregulars Art Fair, New Delhi
2017 : Off the coast
Group Print Exhibition, Living Water Museum, Ahmedabad
2017 : Unwrapping
Collaborative Video Installation, INTAC, South Korea
Publications
2023 : Out at sea: Behind the scenes at Veraval
The Frontline magazine/ The Hindu (Print and Digital)
2022 : Medium and the Message | How the first Chhattisgarhi film questioned caste
The Caravan (Print and Digital)
2021 : Keeping Score: Chhattisgarh Through its Footballing Culture
Social & Political Research Foundation (Digital)
Guest Faculty/ Jury
2024 : In panel of a Design project review sessions of M. Des Photography Design batch of 2022
NID, Gandhinagar
2023 : Designed and conducted a common studio 3-week course called 'Reflections and Projections' under the theme Future of the past
Communication Design, Anant National University, Ahmedabad.
Artist Talk
2022 : Artist talk at National Institute of Design
Artist Talk series, Gandhinagar (Online)
Workshops/Courses
2023 : Postgraduate Course in Aesthetics, Criticism And Theory (ACT) at Jnanapravaha Mumbai
An Uncomfortable Tour Through the Museum
2018 : All about photo-books by Peter Bialobrzeski
Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai in collaboration with BIND
2016 : Beyond the Camera
by Kishor Sharma, Prawin Adhikari & Shikhar Bhattarai, Photo Kathmandu 2016
Nominations
2022 : Nominated for Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography
New Delhi, India
2022 : Shortlisted for Communities of Choice
Chennai Photo Biennale, India
2019 : Nominated for reGeneration 4
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland