The artist,
in her own words.
Biography · Studio note
Contemporary artist working in oil, gouache, and drawing. Trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University Baroda (M.F.A. 2016) under Rekha Rodwittiya. Represented by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, since 2021.
Her work has shown at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Devi Art Foundation, and in two solo presentations at Chemould. Works are held in the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and the Pompidou Foundation collection, Paris.
She paints interiors that feel like almost-remembered rooms, and keeps a separate daily practice of small drawings made on trains and at breakfast tables.
Primary medium
Oil on linen & gouache on paper
Currently in the studio
A new body on enclosed courtyards and gardens, to be shown at Chemould in winter 2026.
Represented by
Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Collections
- Kiran Nadar Museum of ArtNew Delhi
- Devi Art FoundationGurgaon
- Pompidou FoundationParis
- Tata Trust CollectionMumbai
Languages
English · Bengali · Hindi · Gujarati ·
Selected plates.
From the catalogue raisonnéStill Lives of Absent Rooms
Twelve paintings made between 2023 and 2024. Interiors, half-remembered, painted from the shoulder. Shown in full at Chemould Prescott Road, April 2024, and in part at Art Basel Hong Kong, 2025.
Small Weathers
Eighty-four small works on paper made in London during a three-month Gasworks residency. Exhibited at Gasworks and later at Latitude 28, New Delhi, September 2023.
Notebook Drawings
Eighty-four small drawings made on trains and at breakfast tables across 2022 and 2023. Shown at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2022, and acquired in part by the Devi Art Foundation.
The Coromandel Series
A series of eight paintings on ply panels produced in 2021. First major body after the M.F.A., responsible for the first Chemould acquisition. In the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art since 2022.
Exhibitions & residencies.
Solo · Group · BiennaleThe Soft HourSolo exhibition
India RememberedGroup show, curated by Ranjit Hoskote
Still Lives of Absent RoomsSolo exhibition
Small WeathersClosing show, Gasworks residency
Notebook DrawingsIn the Open, curated section
The Coromandel SeriesSolo exhibition
HouseholdKhoj International residency, closing show
A life in practice.
Residencies · Teaching · StudioStudio practicePrimary practice
Full-time studio practice. Producing one body of work per year, typically 14–18 paintings and 60–80 works on paper. Six solo presentations in eight years.
Artist-in-residenceInlaks Fellowship
Three-month research residency supported by the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation. Produced the series “Small Weathers” shown at the closing exhibition.
Artist-in-residenceKhoj Household program
Three-month residency with five artists under the curatorial prompt “Household”. Body of work shown at the closing exhibit; reviewed in Art India.
Visiting facultySecond-year studio
Co-taught the second-year painting studio for three consecutive cohorts. Continues to offer critique to current M.F.A. students.
Artist’s statement.
A note on the workThe rooms I paint are not rooms I have lived in. They are rooms I have almost lived in, or think I have, or would have, had something gone differently on a particular afternoon.
Painting, for me, is a way of sitting with that almost. The light is wrong on purpose. The furniture is closer to memory than to measurement. The work is finished when the room forgets I was there.