Bio
I am an interdisciplinary artist born in Delhi and based in Toronto, working across performance, painting, and ritual-based practices. My work explores memory, grief, and transformation through repetition, mark-making, and embodied gestures. Rooted in the ritual landscapes of India and reshaped by migration, my practice moves between concealment and revelation, translating what feels unspeakable into tactile and visual forms.
Artist Statement
My work is shaped by the space between belonging and displacement, where identity becomes fluid and multiplied. Drawing from Homi Bhabha's concepts of hybridity and third space, I explore how cultural memory exists in states of negotiation and becoming. Judith Butler's theories of performativity inform how I understand the body as a site of repeated gestures that both construct and undo the self.
Susan Sontag's writings on images and empathy guide my engagement with visibility and witnessing, while Carl Jung's mapping of the collective unconscious resonates with my interest in dreams, archetypes, and symbols that surface across generations. These thinkers help me articulate what drives my practice: the search for language when language fails, and the rituals we create to hold what cannot be spoken.
I draw from dreams, myths, and inherited knowledge to examine how the body remembers what language cannot hold. Recent works incorporate masks, clay, mirror, and indigo to explore identity and cycles of rupture and repair. Each project asks: how do we tend to what we've inherited? How do we transform grief into something we can live with?
Curriculum Vitae
Performances
2025
- my hands remember what her's once knew, Art Manzil, Toronto, ON
- The i in the identity starts with u, LongWinter, Toronto, ON
- ground, echo, catalysis, Method, Delhi, India
2024
- trawl, press, transmogrify, Method Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, India
- Silent Echoes of Salient Sores, Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
- mogu-ai-mogu feminism, Performance with Ayumi Goto, Tokyo, Japan
- Prickly Paradigm, Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, ON
2023
- cut me cactus, IGNITE Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022
- unwrapping the unhappy, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON
- sister sister , The Public, Toronto, ON
- Fragments of an inner child, Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON
Selected Shows
2025
- Interwoven Identities, Asian Art & Culture Trust, Toronto, ON
- Letters to Future Love, The Homegrown Festival, Mumbai, India
2024
- Expression of Critical Thought, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora, ON
- Moody Men, Luminato Festival, Toronto, ON
2023
- PastForward, IGNITE Gallery, Toronto, ON
- Object, Materiality, Experience, Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022
- No. 9 Gardens Eco Art Exhibition, Kingston, ON
- Unlearning an uninvited sensory language, Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON
- Translations of a Hermit, Indian International Centre, Delhi, India
Residencies
2024
- Chandraangan Artist Residency, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
- K'inādās Artist Collective, Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
2022
- No. 9 Gardens, Kingston, ON
Lectures & Conferences
2024
- Beyond the Surface: Exploring Design Methodologies, IAMD OCAD U, Toronto, ON
- Queer Grievance: Acts of Griefing in Post-Disciplinary Practice (Chair: Morris Fox), Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), Western University, London, ON
Awards & Grants
2022
- ArtReach CUE Art Projects Grant
- ArtworxTO Spotlight, RBC Emerging Artists Project
- The Dean’s Scholarship, OCAD University
- The Future Systems Scholarship, OCAD University
Education
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Media & Design
OCAD University, Toronto, ON | 2022
B.Des in Visual Communication
Srishti School of Art & Design, Bangalore, India | 2017
Professional Experience
Guest Lecturer & Research Assistant
OCAD University, Toronto, ON | 2024–Present
Program Creative Design & Youth Facilitator
Canvas Arts Action Programs, Toronto, ON | 2023–Present