Emerging Artists

Abir Karmakar, a Spotlight artist is known for using mundane items that speak a unique story. The artist's work as a painter is built on long years of practice. His journey as an artist has been a long and arduous one

Contemporary Malaysian artist Anne Samat uses techniques from Southeast Asian weaving and textile arts to create her vibrant and totemic pieces. Samat produces technically challenging and visually stunning sculpted wall

Anoushka Mirchandani, a young painter and artist from India who now resides in the US, creates intimate portraits of what it's like to be a woman in the modern world. Her figurative landscapes have numerous opaque patterns that serve as a nod to her patchwork identity as an artist, an Indian, an immigrant, a woman, reminding

Arpita Akhanda was born in Cuttack, Odisha, in 1992 into a family of artists who had emigrated from Bangladesh to India before the partition. She received her degree in painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, in 2017

Avijit Dutta incorporates his own emotions that he drew up in his search for human expressions into his art which is realistic and figurative. Using his own special style and compositions with a minimal colour palette

The works of Awdhesh Tamrakar address many of the problems that plague and define our day, including migrations, searches for home, identity, and belonging; untold stories, silent histories, and especially those of illiterate

Winner of India Art Fair and BMW India led 'The Future is Born of Art' Commission is Devika Sundar. In her design for the new BMW X7, Devika imagines a future where art, science and fiction meet and blur boundaries. With a grand presence and a aura of freedom, the new BMW X7 makes for a perfect canvas for

Delhi-born Shivani Aggarwal completed her Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from College of Art, New Delhi in 1996 and her MA (Cert.) painting from Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK in 2003 supported by the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship.

The peeling layers of paint on a ship echo the philosophy of Sunil Gawde, a contemporary artist. Born and brought up in Mumbai, the 1980 graduate from the JJ School of Art took up a job at the Bombay Port Trust

In his works, Tito applies a language of realism that alternates between the circumstances of being from another place and confronting the culture of his familial heritage. His work is incredibly vibrant and immensely allegorical

“We are progressing into a new digital reality,” says the multitalented Varun Desai, an artist who works across a range of mediums, from electronic music production and engineering to creative coding and installation art. With an extraordinary mind

Mayur and Tushar Vayeda, brothers and artists, were born and raised in the Warli village of Ganjad in rural Maharashtra. There, they were exposed to Warli folklore, rituals, and ceremonial Warli paintings

Yamini Nayar combines photography, sculpture, and architecture to produce intricate visual riddles that ultimately take the shape of photographic records. Her pieces begin with instinctively constructed handcrafted sculptures

Gaurav Ogale is a digital artist with a love for a time gone by. In his video and multimedia works — often in the form of short narrative films, published on social media and full of surreal juxtapositions — he harnesses the “unexplainable power of nostalgia”

For Sri Lankan Hema Shironi, a multidisciplinary artist, the key focus of her works are her community bonds and relationships. The artist, who now lives in Killinochchi, says that her art focuses on human and universal aspects and showcases cultural diversity.

Lakshmi Madhavan is a conceptual artist who uses Kerala's textile tradition to weave a thread between the present and the future. As an artist, Lakshmi continually changes her mediums and methods as her environment changes

Prashant Pandey disrupts conventional reasoning when it comes to methods of viewing discarded objects in order to revive perspectives of everyday life. Pandey disrupts the utilitarian cycle of daily life with his use of recycled

Rakhi Peswani, an artist and art instructor, investigates the connection between stitching and drawing in her work. By combining the traditions of minimalism and figurative art with weaving and sewing to create intricate forms and ideas

George Bataille introduced the notion of 'l'informe' - Formlessness. What Bataille means by Formlessness is that art should be brought down to earth, off of its pedestal where it has been standing since antiquity. For Bataille, creativity is in the process. The Formless, in a way, is abstract and indefinable - Bataille himself claims that a word has no definition.

Suparna's work showcases an essence of contemporary expressionism. Her works of landscape depict the buildings which are sharp and geometric, the futuristic technology is sleek but textured, the landscape is barren and foreboding often resembling a scene from a dystopian future. Within her inconsequential

Otherworlds explores the complex & exploitative labour and class relationships in Kapashera - a tenement town that lies at the cusp of Delhi and Gurugram. It questions the meaning of home for people in a place that is in a perpetual state of flux and how the temporariness of livelihoods and belonging