Conformity was the gold standard for women of my generation. Art was always a problem in search of a solution that rode on the back of the real self knitting pink and blue booties, therefore, it was only when the nest emptied that I was able to throw off the chastity belt of my religion and immerse myself, for the next five years, in studying art in all it's varied manifestations and practice in an effort to find my artistic feet.
Though always an artist but never trained in the artistic priesthood in a way I was grateful for the fact that I never had to deal with the sometime belch of undigested teachings as I ploughed a heterodox furrow of my own. After exploring a variety of media I settled on egg tempera, a medium I found best suited to my autobiographical concepts. I worked thus for the longest time till finally tiring of the upkeep of this most demanding of mediums and the restrained sizes of the supports I now sought larger canvases and a way of creating work more on the lines of graffiti art; bold, colourful and large.
My work is largely autobiographical in concept but is also in the broad category of social engagement.
email: [email protected]
MY ART IS REPRESENTED BY: Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi and
Richard Saltoun Gallery, Mayfair, London
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011-Art Heritage, New Delhi
2010-Indar Pasricha Fine Art, London, UK
2002-Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000-Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi
1998-Art Heritage, New Delhi
1998-Cymroza Gallery, Mumbai
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026-Continuity Without Statis-Art Heritage, New Delhi
2026-Short listed for the National Portrait Gallery's Artists of the Year 2026
2025-participated in he India Art Fair-New Delhi
2022-Metaverse Biennale 2022-Dubai
2002-Backdrop artist for the staging of Gulzar's plays at the Tata Theatre
2009-Retrieval Systems-Group show curated by Ranjit Hoskote for Art Alive Gallery-New Delhi
2006-Strangeness-Group show curated by Ranjit Hoskote
2005-Particiption in the Annant Art Auction-Hyderabad
2004-Art Heritage-New Delhi
2002-Masterpieces from the Alkazi Collection-New Delhi
2002-Gallery Katayun-Calcutta
2001-Charity Auction by Christies-Mumbai
2001-Harmony Show-Mumbai
2001-National Gallery of Modern Art-Mumbai
2000-National Gallery of Modern Art-Mumbai
1999-Sans Tache-Mumbai
1997-Harmony Show- Mumbai
1996-Harmony Show-Mumbai
1995-Art Heritage, New Delhi
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1998-The Uncreated Conscious of a Dying Race-Tasneem Mehta
1998-Phrasing a New Colloquial of Images-Ranjit Hoskote
2002-A Sister Grimm for Our Times-Art India-Vol.5 by Nancy Adajania
2009-Interview by Ranjit Hoskote for the booklet-Retrieval Systems
Three works selected for The Jehangir Nicholson Collection at the Bau Daji Museum, Mumbai
15 works as part of the Alkazi Collection
One work as part of the Lady Antonia Fraser Collection
Three works in the Chandigarh Museum of Art
REPRESENTED BY: Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi and
Richard Saltoun Gallery, Mayfair, London
email: [email protected]