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.

Life is in Many Days: Seamus Murphy

Museo Camera presents Life is in Many Days, an exhibition by Irish photographer Seamus Murphy, curated by Zelda Cheatle. The exhibition brings together four major bodies of work spanning more than three decades of Murphy’s practice across Afghanistan, Ireland, India, Russia, and the United States. Known for his deeply human approach to documentary photography, Murphy’s … Continued

August 22-October 25, 2026

Museo Camera Centre for the Photographic Arts, Gurugram

Madras Modern: Art from the Madras School : Group Show

Ashvita’s presents Madras Modern: Art from the Madras School, an exhibition exploring the evolution of the Madras Art Movement and its contribution to modern Indian art. Bringing together works by seven artists, including P. Perumal, S.K. Rajavelu, R. Varadarajan and Premalatha Seshadri, the exhibition traces a distinctive artistic language shaped by South India’s cultural traditions, … Continued

15-27 October, 2026

Piramal Art Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi

A Moment’s Reprieve: Pulkit Prajapati

079|STORIES presents A Moment’s Reprieve, a solo exhibition of paintings by Ahmedabad-based artist Pulkit Prajapati, curated by Samir Wadekar. The exhibition explores how landscapes change over time and how places continue to live through memory. Drawing from weathered walls, fading structures and overlooked urban spaces, Prajapati creates layered paintings that hold traces of places that … Continued

2-27 October, 2026

079|STORIES, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad

Skin of Elsewhere: Adip Dutta

Experimenter in collaboration Musui Art Foundation presents Skin of Elsewhere, a solo exhibition by Adip Dutta. Spanning nearly a decade of practice, the exhibition explores Dutta’s enduring engagement with the urban landscape, transforming the city into a layered archive where the archaic and contemporary, natural and constructed, coexist. Through meticulously crafted ink works depicting crowded … Continued

August 29-October 29, 2026

Musui Art Foundation, Tokaroun, Santiniketan

Here, Is Elsewhere: Group Show

Presented as part of KaniFest 2026, Here, Is Elsewhere is an exhibition curated by Salman B Baba and Khursheed Ahmad for Yusmarg Collective Kashmir. Bringing together 24 artists, the exhibition explores how memory, displacement and lived experiences shape our understanding of place and belonging. Through diverse artistic practices, the works reflect on moments that have … Continued

17-30 October, 2026

Kani Home, Zakura, Srinagar, Kashmir

Untimely Modernists: Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy, Rabindranath Tagore

Akar Prakar presents Untimely Modernists, curated by Parul Dave Mukherji, bringing together works by Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy and Rabindranath Tagore. The exhibition revisits their practices through the idea of an “untimely” modernism that moves beyond a linear understanding of art history. It explores how the three artists challenged established ideas of artistic practice through … Continued

September 26-October 30, 2026

Akar Prakar, New Delhi

Temporal Materialities: Group Show

Ganged Art Gallery presents Temporal Materialities, a group exhibition curated by Rashmee Pal Chouteau, bringing together practices that explore material and process as ways of experiencing time. Across the works, surfaces are layered, marked, scraped, constructed, dismantled and rebuilt, with repeated gestures allowing the act of making itself to become a measure of duration. Rather … Continued

August 25-October 30, 2026

Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata

Chronicles of [un]Seen Labour[er]: Avijit Dutta

Art Heritage presents Chronicles of [un]Seen Labour[er], a solo exhibition by Howrah-based artist Avijit Dutta exploring the lives and experiences of industrial workers. Drawing from the foundries, workshops, railway yards and streets of Howrah, Dutta’s paintings focus on the physicality of labour, its routines and the relationships formed within working communities. His workers often appear … Continued

September 18-October 31, 2026

Art Heritage, 205, Tansen Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi

Roots / Blooms: Group Show

Art Musings presents Roots / Blooms, featuring works by Vishakha Hardikar and Salonika M Aggarwal. The exhibition reflects on the beauty of everyday life through themes of memory, community, nature and belonging. Hardikar draws from familiar moments, relationships and shared experiences, while Aggarwal turns to the natural world, bringing flora and fauna to the centre … Continued

8-31 October, 2026

ART MUSINGS, Colaba Cross Lane, Mumbai

Friends: Vivan Sundaram & Tapan Bhattacharyya

Akar Prakar presents Friends, an exhibition bringing together works by Vivan Sundaram and Tapan Bhattacharyya, curated by Geeta Kapur. The exhibition grows from the long-standing friendship between the two artists, which began during Sundaram’s History Project at the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata in 1997. Bringing together Sundaram’s sculptures from Postmortem with Bhattacharyya’s drawings and gouaches, … Continued

September 12-October 31, 2026

Akar Prakar, Kolkata

Legacies: H. A. Karunaratne: Group Show

Saskia Fernando Gallery in partnership with LYNEAR Wealth Management presents Legacies: H. A. Karunaratne, a group exhibition honouring the pedagogical contributions and enduring influence of Sri Lankan artist and educator H. A. Karunaratne. Bringing together works by S. H. Sarath, Rubert Soysa, Kingsley Gunatillake, Jagath Weerasinghe, Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Jagath Ravindra, the exhibition traces the … Continued

September 25-October 31, 2026

Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo

Earthy Expressions: Group Show

Art Magnum presents Earthy Expressions, a group exhibition curated by Kiran K. Mohan, bringing together 16 Indigenous artists working across India’s folk and tribal traditions. Featuring Gond, Bhil, Bengal Patachitra, Kalamkari, Kalighat, Saura, Warli and Kavi art, the exhibition explores the enduring relationship between nature, cultural memory and community. Through distinct visual languages, the artists … Continued

September 23-October 31, 2026

Art Magnum, 60/2C, 3rd Floor, Indian Oil Complex, Yusuf Sarai, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi

Legacy In Print – Contemporary Artist Respond to Raja Ravi Varma

Gallery White presents Legacy In Print – Contemporary Artist Respond to Raja Ravi Varma, curated by Kavita Shah, exploring how his imagery continues to resonate in contemporary practice. Know more about the  gallery and its shows here.

September 17-October 31, 2026

Gallery White, 3rd Floor, Urban One Complex Vasna Bhayil Main Road, Vadodara

The Anatomy of Wonder: Group show

Anant Art Gallery presents The Anatomy of Wonder, a group exhibition featuring Aditya Puthur, Anikesa Dhing, Dhiraj Rabha, Tito Stanley S.J. and Laxmipriya Panigrahi. Exploring dreams, mythology, fragmented memory and the subconscious, the exhibition considers how Surrealism evolves into deeply personal, political and culturally rooted forms. Across painting, drawing, installation and mixed media, the works … Continued

September 10-October 31, 2026

Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi

Phantasms in the Hold: Thamshangpha ‘Merci’ Maku

Anant Art Gallery presents Phantasms in the Hold, a solo exhibition by Thamshangpha ‘Merci’ Maku, curated by Anna Sireiliu Charenamei and Sohorpem Kazingmei, with Shaleen Wadhwana. The exhibition explores invisibilised histories and racialised presents through the borderland as both physical territory and inner condition. Drawing on inherited basket-weaving traditions and intergenerational oral knowledge, Merci expands … Continued

September 10-October 31, 2026

Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi

The Grammar of the Self: Kanchan Chander

Gallery Ragini presents The Grammar of the Self, a major retrospective of acclaimed artist and printmaker Kanchan Chander, curated by Kishore Singh. Spanning over five decades, the exhibition brings together drawings, prints and mixed-media works, tracing the evolution of Chander’s practice through her enduring engagement with observation, memory, identity and the human experience. From early … Continued

September 12-October 31, 2026

LTC Gallery, Bikaner House, New Delhi