Artists We’re Still Thinking About from the MSU Baroda Annual Show

TEXT:  YUKTI V. AGARWAL On a characteristically sultry, overwhelmingly humid day, armed with a flask of ice-cold water and a few protein bars, we attempted to navigate what felt like an impossible amount of art in a single visit. Across studios, classrooms, corridors, and exhibition spaces, we encountered an astonishing range of practices: works grappling … Continued

AFRAH SHAFIQ CREATES A LIVING ARCHIVE INSPIRED BY EMBROIDERY TRADITIONS AND THE WOMEN BEHIND THEM, ACROSS TIME AND CULTURES

In a world where women’s labour largely remains invisible, artist Afrah Shafiq reimagines the humble sampler, an often hidden piece of cloth used by countless women to practice embroidery patterns, as a way to record and map embroidery traditions, arithmetic logic, and coded languages embedded in motifs across time and cultures, in a deeply personal … Continued

IMBALANCE OF ECOLOGY : DEEPAK KUMAR

Deepak Kumar welcomes us into a studio he once only imagined. Tucked within Kaladham, the space serves as both a home and a laboratory

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: Morii Design

India-based studio Morii Design works between craft, intuition, and collective memory. In its practice, embroidery becomes language, time unfolds through process, and inherited knowledge is made present through the hands of many.

Triveni at 75: Sustaining a Living Culture in the Capital

In this special conversation marking 75 years of Triveni’s journey, we sit down with Amar Shridharani, Honorary General Secretary of Triveni and son of its founder, who has preserved and extended his mother’s mission with impeccable commitment. In a candid dialogue, Amar reflects on legacy, architecture, openness, and what it means to sustain a space that remains at once intimate, experimental and fiercely true to its founding vision.

The Work of Remembering

Artist Amol K Patil welcomes us into Project 88, where A Forest of Remembrance unfolds as a space of listening—carrying histories of labour, movement, and resistance across the city.

The Performative Body: Explorations of Space and Time by Arun B.

Arun B. grew up in Kadirur, a village in Thalassery, Kannur District in Kerala, which has a deep connection with the origin of the oldest martial art Kalaripayatu–Kalari and Theyyam–with sounds of chenda, their rituals, chants, colour, dialogues, and materials that they use to create an environment. Later, when he moved to Baroda, the shift … Continued

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: Ghiora Aharoni

New York based artist, Ghiora Aharoni works between cultures, scripts and lived histories. In his practice language becomes form, time bends and inherited memory is made present.

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: PRIYANKA SHAH | SHED

Founded in 2014, SHED operates as a space for enquiry rather than a conventional studio, moving fluidly across furniture, objects, play systems and small architectural works. The studio’s work occupies a territory between the domestic and the speculative, recalibrating familiar forms—tables, game boards and storage pieces—through material experimentation, precise craftsmanship and a questioning of convention. … Continued

Memory, Domesticity, and the Politics of the Visual in Farhin Afza’s work

For Hyderabad-based artist Farhin Afza, family archives are not inert records but living sites where memory, comfort, and violence collide

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: DHRUV AGARWWAL

Ahead of his presentation at India Art Fair 2026, presented through Galerie Maria Wettergren, we speak to Dhruv Agarwwal about nostalgia as a driving force behind his design language, the role of scale in his work and what it means to build contemporary relevance without disconnecting craft from its source

“I AM AN ARTIST BECAUSE I AM A PAINTER” : NILIMA SHEIKH

Artist Nilima Sheikh welcomes us into her home and studio in Baroda, where painting becomes a way of carrying stories across time, place, and memory.

WHO’S ASLEEP AND WHO’S AWAKE: SUDARSHAN SHETTY

Artist Sudarshan Shetty welcomes us into his Mumbai studio, where objects, images, and constructed worlds are brought into careful relation.

Invisible Infrastructures and the Workings of a World Unseen : Shreni

Artist Shreni works with digital systems and speculative ecologies to uncover the invisible infrastructures that sustain urban life. This film traces her process—from foraging data and texture in Mumbai to building a large-scale video installation that imagines what it might look like when a city remembers.

BANGLES & MUSHROOMS: DUMIDUNI ILLANGASINGHE on Fragility, Femininity and Healing

Sri Lankan – born artist Dumiduni Illangasinghe works slowly, attentively, and with deep emotional precision. Currently based in Varanasi, Illangasinghe moves between a formal studio at Banaras Hindu University and temporary, improvised setups in her dorm room. The shift between these spaces mirror her practice – oscillating between material experimentation and inward reflection, between structure and vulnerability.

THE LOGIC OF WONDER: SHAILESH BR

In this BMW Artist Film, Shailesh BR invites us into his world of invention and satire, to challenge belief, choice and the structures that quietly govern our lives.

Slow Time: Pooja Chamudiya

Six Continuum with Cultivate Art presents Slow Time, an intimate exhibition of new ceramic works by Pooja Chamudiya. Shaped by recent Anagama firings in Japan, the works explore earthy tones, kiln residues, and the evolving relationship between clay and fire, alongside the artist’s continued fascination with metallic surfaces. Borrowing its title from John Keats’ poem … Continued

July 31-August 28, 2026

Six Continuum, Eon One, Prabhadevi, Mumbai

I See You: Artur Żurawski

Anant Art, in collaboration with the Polish Institute, New Delhi, presents I See You, a solo exhibition by Polish cinematographer and visual artist Artur Żurawski. Bringing together black-and-white photographs made during film productions across countries, the exhibition turns the camera towards the directors, actors, crew and local collaborators who often remain unseen. Through intimate portraits, … Continued

22-29 August, 2026

Anant Art, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi

I Got a Cut in My Flower Valley: Gurjeet Singh

Rajiv Menon Contemporary presents I Got a Cut in My Flower Valley, Gurjeet Singh’s first solo exhibition outside India, featuring twelve soft sculptures exploring rupture, repair, and the tension between them. Flowers recur in every title, embodying not only beauty but vulnerability, reflecting the complexities of queer life and liberation in India. Balancing joy and … Continued

July 18-August 29, 2026 11:00 am — 6:00 pm

Rajiv Menon Contemporary, CA 90028, United States

Sour Stars and Breadfruit Monsoons: Sahil Naik

Experimenter presents Sour Stars and Breadfruit Monsoons, a solo exhibition by Sahil Naik. The exhibition brings together paintings and image fragments inspired by early colonial landscape studies and murals found across Goa, Bombay, and Daman. Through these works, Naik explores how colonial rule heralded a tense and transformative relationship between landscapes—seed, plant, fruit, and pest, … Continued

July 31-August 29, 2026

Experimenter, Colaba, Mumbai

Madras Abstraction: Group Show

Gallery Veda presents Madras Abstraction, a group exhibition tracing the evolution and enduring influence of the Madras Art Movement. Bringing together K.V. Haridasan, Akkitham Narayanan, Achuthan Kudallur, Velu Viswanadhan, Saravanan Parasuraman, Ganesh Selvaraj, P. Suresh Kumar, and Yuvan Bothysathuvar, the exhibition traces connected yet evolving approaches to abstraction. Together, these practices reveal how the Madras … Continued

8-30 August, 2026

Gallery Veda, Nungambakkam, Chennai

As the Crow Flies: Group Show

Baro Art India presents As the Crow Flies, a group show curated by Srila Chatterjee. The exhibition creates a unique meeting place for different generations, mediums, and artistic philosophies. Tigers‚ elephants‚ owls‚ fish‚ plants and forests are depicted using watercolors‚ acrylics‚ linocuts‚ wood and clay with natural colors․ Each artwork has a different representation of … Continued

28-30 August, 2026

Bangalore International Centre, Bengaluru, Karnataka

Progressive Failure: Group Show

Eikowa Contemporary presents Progressive Failure, a group show curated by Yash Vikram, featuring works by the artists Ganga Narayanan, Harman Taneja, Ravi Morya, Sourabh Chhawry, Vikrant Kano, and Yashna Kaul.  The exhibition questions how histories endure, transform, or disappear when the architecture that once anchored them slowly fades. It draws upon archives, recorded histories, and … Continued

July 18-August 30, 2026

Eikowa Contemporary, Gurugram

ऊंबरा: At An Ancestral Threshold: Rohit Suresh Varekar

Gallerie Nvya presents ऊंबरा: at an ancestral threshold, a solo exhibition by Rohit Suresh Varekar. Varekar explores what architecture remembers after human presence recedes, using architectural fragments–doors, beams, and pillars salvaged from collapsed mud homes. The physical attribute of threshold ultimately becomes a way of thinking about transition, about standing between histories, between generations, and … Continued

July 11-August 31, 2026

Gallerie Nvya, Saket District Centre, New Delhi

The Urban Biome: Group Show

KYNKYNY’s new Mumbai space opens with The Urban Biome, curated by Vivek Radhakrishnan, an exhibition bringing together dynamic contemporary artists, including Krisha Bhuva, Hemanth Kumar, N. Divya, Nivedita Shinde, Simran Yagyik, and Sunil K. The exhibition explores the relationships between humans and the environments they inhabit, both indoors and out. The spaces we occupy are … Continued

August 7-September 4, 2026

KYNKYNY, 4th Floor, No 20, Gool Mansion, 6 Homji Street, Horniman Circle, Mumbai

Beyond The Binary: Group Show

APRE Art House presents Beyond the Binary, a group exhibition curated by Georgina Maddox. Featuring works by Bobo Calcutta, Sunil Gupta, Prerit Jain, Jehangir Jani, Naman Kumar, Maria Lopez, Mira Felicia Malhotra, Arun Rao, Inder Salim, Tejal Shah, and Satadru Sovan, the exhibition treats gender not as a fixed destination but as an evolving experience … Continued

August 13-September 5, 2026

APRE Art House, Colaba, Mumbai

Shapes of Time II: Group Show

Nature Morte presents Shapes of Time II, bringing together a diverse group of artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, installation and mixed media. The exhibition considers time not as an abstract idea, but as something embedded within artistic practice itself. Some works emerge through years of repetition and material experimentation, while others draw from personal … Continued

July 23-September 5, 2026

Nature Morte, Colaba, Mumbai

Birth of Another God: Sajal Sarkar

Aicon Contemporary presents Birth of Another God,  a solo exhibition by Sajal Sarkar. She reimagines the familiar Romantic landscape through a fractured, ominous lens. Desolate horizons are interrupted by towering structures assembled from fragments—urban debris, skeletal remains, and ambiguous forms that resist identification. Poised between realism and abstraction, these unstable “things” evoke the precarity of … Continued

July 30-September 5, 2026

Aicon Contemporary, 35 Great Jones Street, New York, NY 10012

A Slow Slip of Solitude: Group Show

Gallery Pristine Contemporary presents A Slow Slip of Solitude, an exhibition featuring twenty-three works by Ayuesh Agarwal, Salony Garg, and Varad Bang. The exhibition creates an immersive environment where painting, architecture, light, and atmosphere intersect. The art works reflect on the relationship between isolation and connection, creating a slower and more attentive mode of seeing. … Continued

July 25-September 5, 2026

Gallery Pristine Contemporary, New Delhi

Kaghaz Ki Kashti – Retracing Memories of Boyhood: Rajesh Ram

Palette Art Gallery in collaboration with Bihar Museum presents Kaghaz Ki Kashti – Retracing Memories of Boyhood, a major retrospective exhibition by acclaimed contemporary sculptor Rajesh Ram. Drawing from deeply personal memories of his childhood in rural Jharkhand, the exhibition brings together an extensive body of work that traces Ram’s artistic journey from village life … Continued

August 7-September 7, 2026

Palette Art Gallery at Bihar Museum, Patna, Bihar

Dawn of an Age: Group Show

Dhoomimal Gallery presents Dawn of an Age: Art, Witness, and the Making of Independent South Asia, a group exhibition, featuring artists Chittaprosad, Zainul Abedin, Somnath Hore, Sushil Sarkar, Sailoz Mookherjea, V.S. Adurkar, B.C. and Sanyal. The exhibition traces six decades of artistic witness, resilience, and visual identity from the birth of modern South Asia. Drawn … Continued

August 8-September 8, 2026

Dhoomimal Gallery, G-42, Connaught Place, New Delhi, India

The Mark of the Matrix: Impressions from Contemporary Indian Printmaking: Group Show

Artisera presents The Mark of the Matrix: Impressions from Contemporary Indian Printmaking, a group exhibition featuring eleven contemporary Indian printmakers from across the country. Bringing together works by senior, mid-career, and emerging artists, the exhibition celebrates the breadth and diversity of printmaking through techniques including woodcut, etching, lithography, serigraphy, and aquatint. Alongside the artworks, The … Continued

August 8-September 10, 2026

Artisera, Bangalore, Karnataka