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.

A City in Form: A Dialogue Through Sculpture: Group Show

The Raw House and Nexus Art Gallery presents A City in Form: A Dialogue Through Sculpture, a groups show that brings together sculptural practices from across India, exploring how artists engage with form, material, space and scale. Rather than looking at sculpture simply as an object, the show looks at how sculptural practices create conversations … Continued

5-20 September, 2026

The Raw House

Instinctively Many– A Cultivated Salon

Cultivate Art presents Instinctively Many: A Cultivated Salon, bringing together 25+ artists from across India at the Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad. Rooted in the artist’s instinct, the impulse to make before trends, markets, or algorithms intervene, the exhibition embraces spontaneity, plurality, and the unruly spirit of contemporary Indian art. Drawing from the original spirit … Continued

18-20 September, 2026

Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad

Skin of Dreams: Shezad Dawood

Cultural Foundation presents Skin of Dreams, first mid-career retrospective of the artist Shezad Dawood. The exhibition explores the richly textured universe Dawood has been shaping for over two decades. Anchored in research, his works draw on diverse references from history, literature, architecture, music, science and technology, allowing him to make fantastical connections and leaps we … Continued

April 9-September 20, 2026

Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Mänk’áčen (Revision 6): Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo

The Dilip Piramal Art Gallery at the The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) presents Mänk’áčen (Revision 6), an exhibition by Chilean artist and researcher Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo, on the occasion of the Bicentennial of Photography (2026–27). The exhibition explores the camera’s arrival in South America and India and examines how the technology indelibly shaped … Continued

August 14-September 20, 2026

The Dilip Piramal Art Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai

Of Being and Becoming: Group Show

Sakshi Gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary with Of Being and Becoming, curated by Manan Shah. Bringing together over 50 artists across generations—including Vivan Sundaram, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Nalini Malani, Rekha Rodwittiya, Ranbir Singh Kaleka, Navjot Altaf, Shilpa Gupta, and Thukral and Tagra—the exhibition traces evolving artistic vocabularies, materials and ideas from the 1980s to the … Continued

11-20 September, 2026

Sakshi Gallery at Travancore Palace, New Delhi

Objects of Desire by SIKAO

SIKAO, the Mumbai gallery working at the meeting point of art and design, brings this exhibition to Ahmedabad after its Mumbai run, where each object holds its own presence yet builds a charged field of curiosity together, and looking at something slowly turns into desiring it.

19-20 September, 2026 12:00 pm — 7:00 pm

Kanoria Centre for Arts, Opposite Gujarat University, University Road, Navrangpura

Anugoonj: Dharita Deliwala

Anugoonj, meaning “resonance”, is a reflection of artist Dharita Deliwala’s deeply personal journey through art and life. Having painted for most of her life, Dharita found in watercolour a medium that mirrors life’s impermanence: transparent, fluid, expressive, and often unforgiving. Drawn to its spontaneity and vibrancy, she pursued a largely self-directed path of learning through … Continued

15-20 September, 2026 4:00 pm — 8:00 pm

Amdavad ni Gufa

HEADS – Every Face Holds a Story: Group Show

Nayan Naveli Gallery presents HEADS – Every Face Holds a Story, a group show curated by Amrita Kochhar. The exhibition explores the head and the human face as powerful sites of identity, thought, emotion, memory and experience. The exhibition features works by an impressive roster of artists, including Anjolie Ela Menon, Krishen Khanna, Krishnendu Porel, … Continued

17-23 September, 2026

Nayan Naveli Gallery at Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi

Liminal Landscape – a journey within: Yusuf

Tao Art Gallery presents Liminal Landscape – a journey within, a solo exhibition by Yusuf, curated by Sanjana Shah. Drawing on decades of practice, Yusuf explores inner landscapes through his distinctive linear drawings, abstract forms, and layered colours. Balancing order and disruption, his works evoke sensation, and fragments of experience. What appear to be abstract … Continued

August 20-September 25, 2026

Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai

Truth is Stranger Than Fiction: Khanjan Dalal

079|STORIES presents Truth is Stranger Than Fiction, a solo exhibition by Khanjan Dalal, curated by Lina Vincent. Bringing together a decade of Dalal’s ceramic practice, the exhibition traces his evolving engagement with material, language, memory and the forces of nature. Spanning works from 2015 to 2026, the exhibition moves between personal narrative and abstraction, exploring … Continued

6-26 September, 2026

079|STORIES, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad

Sculpting Lineages: Women Across Generations: Group Show

Gallery Espace presents Sculpting Lineages: Women Across Generations, an exhibition tracing nearly seven decades of sculptural practice through the work of Ira Choudhuri, Latika Katt, Shambhavi, Sojwal Samant, Radhika Agarwala and Poojan Gupta. Curated by Nainvi Vora, the exhibition offers an alternative genealogy of Indian sculpture, foregrounding women as central contributors rather than exceptions to … Continued

August 22-September 26, 2026

Gallery Espace, New Delhi

Shadow of Blossoms: Shuvankar Maitra

Artdistrict XIII presents Shadow of Blossoms, a solo exhibition by artist Shuvankar Maitra, bringing together a contemplative body of paintings rooted in the artist’s enduring relationship with nature. Through trees, foliage, light, and shifting colour, Maitra transforms personal memories of the natural landscape into poetic and emotionally resonant visual experiences. At the heart of Shadow … Continued

August 17-September 26, 2026 11:00 am — 6:00 pm

Artdistrict XIII, New Delhi

Krishna Reddy, The Many and The One

Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya presents Krishna Reddy, The Many and The One, supported in-part by Experimenter. The exhibition explores Reddy’s legacy alongside artists within his orbit, revisiting Reddy’s legacy alongside works by Atelier 17 artists embracing abstraction and image reproductions, documenting international artists Reddy encountered. The exhibition aims to … Continued

July 9-September 27, 2026

Jehangir Nicholson Art Gallery, CSMVS Museum, Fort, Mumbai

Mai Hoon Warli: Sanjay Parhad

Indian Arts Corner presents Mai Hoon Warli, a solo exhibition by Sanjay Parhad curated by Chhavi Jain. It brings the visual language of Warli art into a contemporary context. Through rhythmic lines and recurring motifs, Parhad captures village life, rituals, relationships and the deep bond between people and nature. Rooted in ancestral stories and cultural … Continued

24-28 September, 2026

Indian Arts Corner at Main Art Gallery, Bikaner House, India Gate, New Delhi

Srinivas Bobbili: A Biography of the Everyday

Dhi Artspace presents Srinivas Bobbili: A Biography of the Everyday, an exhibition that brings together works and archival material celebrating Srinivas Bobbili’s enduring artistic legacy. Revisiting his life and practice, the exhibition reflects his engagement with ordinary lives, labour, memory, and the quiet rhythms of daily existence. Through drawing, watercolour, and painting, Bobbili transformed everyday … Continued

August 18-September 29, 2026

Dhi Artspace, Ameerpet, Hyderabad, Telangana

The House of MG

Timings: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Ahmedabad’s architectural heritage meets Gujarat’s material culture here, with dinner at the rooftop restaurant Agashiye and a curated walk through the Ahmedabad Trunk Galleries, home to family heirlooms, historic textiles, silver and jewellery that trace the city’s craft traditions. Programmes we have planned along with the House of MG … Continued

August 1-September 30, 2026

Bhadra Rd, Opp. Sidi, Old City, Gheekanta, Lal Darwaja