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.

Protocols of Living: Group Show

Dhi Contemporary presents Protocols of Living, a group exhibition featuring works by Gayathri T Santosh, Prajwal Naitam, Soumen Ray, and Subhendu Karmakar. The exhibition examines themes of alienation, displacement, reflecting on the visible and invisible systems, structures, and habits that shape contemporary existence, in everyday life.  Find out more about the exhibition here.  

June 20-August 3, 2026

Dhi Contemporary, Bodhi House, Madhapur, Hyderabad

Hunar: Group Show

APRE Art House presents Hunar | هنر, a group exhibition featuring works by Marium Agha, Masuma Halai Khwaja, Abid Aslam, Arieno Kera, and Zahra Mansoor. Taking its title from Allama Iqbal’s concept of hunar, skill understood not as technical accomplishment alone but as the spiritual force through which civilisations survive, the exhibition explores the image as an active … Continued

July 9-August 7, 2026

APRE Art House, Colaba, Mumbai

Towards Minor Gestures: Intensities In The Making

Vadehra Art Gallery presents Towards Minor Gestures: Intensities In The Making, a group exhibition featuring the 2024 recipients of the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) Emerging Artists Award (EAA+). Bringing together practices shaped through a peer-led model of dialogue, exchange, mentorship, and making, the exhibition spans image-making, space-making, research, documentation, and participatory encounters. The … Continued

July 8-August 7, 2026

Vadehra Art Gallery, Defence Colony, New Delhi

The Wall is Water: Shahana Rajani With Ustad Abdul Aziz, Abdul Sattar & Aziza Ahmad

Prameya Art Foundation presents The Wall is Water at Shrine Empire Gallery. It is Shahana Rajani’s first solo presentation in the country, with Ustad Abdul Aziz, Abdul Sattar and Aziza Ahmad, curated by Anushka Rajendran. The exhibition foregrounds the mystic practices and lineages of drawing and painting through which fishing communities of the Indus Delta keep … Continued

July 7-August 8, 2026

Prameya Art Foundation at Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi

Mati: Prof. Prakash Bhise | Retrospective Solo

Gallery Art & Soul, in collaboration with Strangers’ House Gallery, presents Mati, Prof. Prakash Bhise’s retrospective solo exhibition. The exhibition features a selection of monumental abstract canvases curated by Sumesh Sharma, with advisory support from Prabhakar Kamble and Bhushan Bhombale, Bhise’s students. Bhise turns the narrative towards our roots, reflecting on how we wash and … Continued

July 21-August 11, 2026

Gallery Art & Soul, Worli, Mumbai

Dog Sketches: Prof. Prakash Bhise | Retrospective Solo

Strangers’ House Gallery presents Dog Sketches, Prof. Prakash Bhise’s Retrospective Solo. The show is curated by Sumesh Sharma with advisory support from Prabhakar Kamble and Bhushan Bhombale, Bhise’s students. It features Bhise’s outlines of dogs that would gather outside his family home, drawn using an indigenous crow quill brush called boru (created by shaving a … Continued

July 9-August 11, 2026

Strangers' House Gallery, Colaba, Mumbai

MOOL: Group Show

Gallery Exhibit320 presents, MOOL, a group exhibition curated by Shaleen Wadhwana, featuring twenty artistic voices from five South Asian countries. The exhibition showcases the personal artefacts of the artists’ families in a public setting for the first time. Each artist shares an object from their family history that reflects their sense of belonging to South … Continued

6-13 August, 2026

CCA Building, Bikaner House, New Delhi

(Re)claiming Rights of Render(ing): Group Show

NewArtX presents (Re)claiming Rights of Render(ing), curated by Manan Shah, featuring works by Alex Davis, Atul Bhalla, Gigi Scaria, GR Iranna, Riyas Komu, Sibdas Sengupta, Teja Gavankar, Vibha Galhotra, and Waswo X. Waswo. The exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, photography, and digital fine art, examining how artists translate material instincts into digital practice. Rather than … Continued

7-13 August, 2026

NewArtX at LTC, Bikaner House, New Delhi

A Place to Begin: Group Show

ChampaTree Art Gallery presents A Place to Begin, a group exhibition featuring Arti Kumari, Dindi Praveen Sagar, Diya Mehta, Fida Parveen, M. D. Musthafa, Neha Dey, and Sayuri Bhanap. Bringing together seven distinct artistic practices, the exhibition explores diverse approaches to material, process, and image without seeking a common theme or aesthetic. Working across archival … Continued

July 24-August 14, 2026

ChampaTree Art Gallery, GK II, New Delhi

Mind Your Own: Srinivas Mangipudi

Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art presents Mind Your Own, a solo exhibition by Srinivas Mangipudi. Through his work, the artist asks: What does the mind know before we find words for it? Across a series of drawings, Mangipudi explores the space between thought and action, the conscious and the subconscious. The artist encourages us to understand … Continued

July 9-August 14, 2026

Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art, Colaba, Mumbai

Writings on the Wall: Subhakar Tadi

Akara Contemporary presents Writings on the Wall, a solo exhibition by the artist Subhakar Tadi. In his work, Tadi makes the wall both his subject and his method. He draws from politically charged sites such as the Berlin Wall, covered over decades with testimonies; the West Bank separation barrier, layered with murals; and the US–Mexico … Continued

July 9-August 14, 2026

Akara Contemporary, Colaba, Mumbai

Cosmic Echoes: Group Show

Gondwana Art Project presents Cosmic Echoes, an exhibition showcasing tribal art from Central India. It brings together a constellation of Indigenous artistic practices that articulate a worldview shaped by profound relationships with land, ecology, and the cosmos. These works reveal an understanding of existence in which rivers, forests, animals, ancestral memory, and the movement of … Continued

July 3-August 15, 2026

Cafe Delhi Heights IKIGAI, Sangam Courtyard, RK Puram, New Delhi

Walking Root Route: Monali Meher

LATITUDE 28 presents Walking Root Route, a solo exhibition by Monali Meher, featuring recent works across sculpture, installation, drawing, textile, photography, video, and participatory practice. Continuing Meher’s exploration of ecology, migration, memory, labour, and the relationship between people and place, the exhibition reflects on how movement, environmental change, and cultural exchange shape landscapes, identities, and … Continued

July 31-August 17, 2026

LATITUDE 28, Defence Colony, New Delhi

In the Viewing Room: Group Show

Kalakriti Art Gallery presents In the Viewing Room, a curated display featuring fifteen artists working across painting, sculpture, mixed media, and installation. The artworks foreground unexpected conversations between materials, forms, and ideas. Rather than centering a singular theme, it creates a dynamic field of exchange, offering visitors a compelling glimpse into contemporary Indian and international … Continued

June 19-August 18, 2026

Kalakriti Art Gallery, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

A Special Viewing of Works: Ann Carrington

Kalakriti Art Gallery, in collaboration with Tara Art, presents a special viewing of works by internationally renowned artist Ann Carrington. Bringing together sculptural works created from discarded everyday objects, the presentation highlights Carrington’s distinctive practice of transforming familiar materials into intricate forms that reconsider ideas of value, beauty, and function. Through her inventive use of … Continued

June 19-August 18, 2026

Kalakriti Art Gallery, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Liminal Threshold: Sumit Sarkar

Kalakriti Art Gallery presents Liminal Threshold, a solo exhibition by Sumit Sarkar, curated by Ruchi Sharma. The exhibition explores memory, imagination, and the shifting boundaries between the familiar and the unknown. Through domestic objects, symbolic imagery, and mythological references, Sarkar reflects on personal and collective histories, tracing how emotions, experiences, and cultural memories continue to … Continued

June 19-August 18, 2026

Kalakriti Art Gallery, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad