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.

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

No Single Ground: Group Show

Iram Modern presents No Single Ground, a group exhibition curated by Satyajit Dave. Bringing together different moments in Indian modernism, the exhibition traces shifting relationships between body, landscape and abstraction. Images move between memory,pl ace, gesture and colour, where representation gives way to surface and form. Inherited visual languages, popular imagery, artisanal knowledge and lived … Continued

18-30 September, 2026

Iram Modern, Ahmedabad

Shreyas Folk Museum

Campus entry: ₹500 per person The Shreyas Foundation’s 28-acre campus, master-planned by architect Balkrishna Doshi, holds a folk and tribal art collection curated by Jyotindra Jain, along with a tree house classroom and canopy walk over a Miyawaki forest, spaces built around learning through nature and craft.

August 1-September 30, 2026

Shreyas Tekra Rd, Opposite, Mithila Society, Bhudarpura, Ayojan Nagar

Darwin Bucky

A parametric steel pavilion built as a transportable black-box gallery, showing how architecture itself can be part of the exhibition, with photographs and a short film on the pavilion’s design and construction before visitors enter the show. Nearby, TreeScape™️ extends the experience with a Tree House Classroom, a Canopy Walk over a Miyawaki forest and … Continued

August 1-September 30, 2026

Shreyas Tekra Rd, Opposite, Mithila Society, Bhudarpura, Ayojan Nagar

Performing Belief: Group Show

Kalakaar Art Salon presents Performing Belief, a group exhibition curated by Rahul Kumar, bringing together works by twenty-two modern, folk, tribal, and contemporary artists. Featuring artists including S. H. Raza, F. N. Souza, M. F. Husain, Jamini Roy, Bhuri Bai, Jivya Soma Mashe, Manu Parekh, Madhvi Parekh, Thota Vaikuntam, and others, the exhibition explores ritual … Continued

August 13-September 30, 2026

Kalakaar Art Salon, Defence Colony, New Delhi

The Calico Museum

Open from Tuesday to Sunday | 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM & 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Founded in 1949 by Gautam and Gira Sarabhai on the suggestion of art historian Ananda Coomaraswamy, the Calico Museum of Textiles holds a five-century collection of Indian textiles, from Kashmiri shawls to hand-dyed double-ikat weaves, alongside sculpture, bronzes … Continued

1-30 September, 2026

The Retreat, Opposite Underbridge, Jain Colony, Shahibaug

Ngok Dolu (My Village): Jenjum Gadi

Gallery Vayu presents Ngok Dolu (My Village), a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Jenjum Gadi. Rooted in Gadi’s childhood in a self-sustaining village in Arunachal Pradesh, the exhibition reflects on landscapes shaped by bamboo and thatch homes, fields, forests, rivers and orchards. Drawing from memories of architecture, agriculture, craft, weather and everyday village life, Ngok … Continued

10-30 September, 2026

Gallery Vayu, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

Stick No Bills: Guesswho

Muziris Contemporary presents Stick No Bills, solo exhibition of anonymous street artist Guesswho, whose practice since 2012 has used anonymity to strip away identity and let the work speak for itself. Drawing on pop culture, cinema, art, music and South Asian visual culture, Guesswho recontextualises familiar imagery through satire and sharp social commentary. Bringing the … Continued

August 23-September 30, 2026

Muziris Contemporary, Mumbai & Kochi