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.

Emerald Leaf & Golden Fibre: Sonia Mehra Chawla

Gallery Espace presents Emerald Leaf & Golden Fibre, a solo exhibition by Sonia Mehra Chawla, with curatorial advice by Nancy Adajania. Through mixed-media paintings, photographic installations and video works, the exhibition explores the colonial histories of tea and jute in Bengal and their impact on its ecology, communities and cultural landscapes. Drawing on archival research … Continued

October 15-November 15, 2026

Gallery Espace, 16, Sujan Mohinder Road, New Friends Colony, New Delhi

Songs the Soil Keeps: Group Show

Curated by Gallery Dotwalk’s Research and Curatorial Team, Songs the Soil Keeps brings together modern and contemporary Indian artists exploring the land as a living archive of memory, mythology, labour and ecology. Through painting, sculpture and varied material practices, the exhibition considers how the earth holds personal and collective histories while continuing to change through … Continued

October 28-November 15, 2026

Gallery Dotwalk, D-34, First Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi

When Wilderness Dreams: Group Show

Ojas Art presents When Wilderness Dreams, a two-person exhibition featuring over 50 works by Jhulan Bai Baiga and Pisadu Ram Mandavi. Drawing from their lived experiences of forests and rural landscapes, the artists depict animals, plants and sacred beings shaped by memory, community and everyday life. Their works reflect an intimate relationship with the natural … Continued

October 11-November 15, 2026

Ojas Art, New Delhi

R.S.V.P: Group Show

TAK Contemporary presents its inaugural group exhibition, R.S.V.P., titled after the abbreviation for Répondez s’il vous plaît, a phrase used to confirm one’s presence. Bringing together seven artists—Abirami, Gvantsa Jishkariani, Muriel Moreau, Pavan Kavitkar, Salik Ansari, Spandita Malik and Sujith S. N.—the exhibition explores who is invited to be seen, heard and recognised, and whose … Continued

October 10-November 15, 2026

TAK Contemporary, 21 rue Béranger, 75003 Paris

What the Light Remembers: Riddhi Shah

Gallerie Nvya presents What the Light Remembers, a monographic exhibition of recent works by artist Riddhi Shah. Working across gouache, watercolour, gold pigment and walnut stain on Sanganeri and acid-free paper, Shah brings together the geometric precision of the jaali with the organic structures of the natural world. Through this dialogue, she explores memory as … Continued

September 26-November 15, 2026

Gallerie Nvya, C-2, District Centre, Saket, New Delhi

I Know What I Am Doing: Group Show

Kalakriti Art Gallery presents I Know What I Am Doing, a group exhibition curated by P. S. Jalaja, bringing together contemporary South Indian artistic practices across generations. Featuring 17 artists and the Transisters Collective, the exhibition examines intentionality, political consciousness and the role of artistic choices in shaping contemporary practice. The works engage with themes … Continued

October 9-November 17, 2026

Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad

Flowing Like a River Undammed: Rahul Buski

Art Exposure presents Flowing Like a River Undammed, Rahul Buski’s debut solo exhibition, inspired by Adivasi scholar and activist Abhay Xaxa’s poem Beautiful Damaged People. Through richly textured paintings, Buski explores land, forests, water, memory and Adivasi identity. Drawing from his experiences as a Paniya Adivasi from Wayanad, Kerala, his works bring together people, landscapes, … Continued

September 12-November 17, 2026 10:00 am — 6:00 pm

Art Exposure, Kolkata

Discriminating taste, hallucinations of the tongue: Rina Banerjee

Vadehra Art Gallery presents Rina Banerjee’s solo exhibition Discriminating taste, hallucinations of the tongue, that brings together paintings and hybrid sculptures exploring how taste and identity are shaped by migration, cultural exchange and colonial histories. Drawing on craft traditions and visual languages from across Asia and North Africa, Banerjee creates dreamlike figures and fantastical forms … Continued

October 28-November 18, 2026

Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi

Amores: José Zendejas Foyo

Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art in association with the Mexican Consulate presents Amores, a solo exhibition by Mexican artist José Zendejas Foyo. As part of the gallery’s Emerging Artists programme, the exhibition brings together abstract paintings inspired by different forms of love, including self-love, obsession, loss and idealisation. Using vivid colours, gesture and texture, Zendejas Foyo … Continued

October 8-November 18, 2026

Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art, Mumbai

Long Short Stories: Waswo X. Waswo

LATITUDE 28 presents Long Short Stories, a solo exhibition by Waswo X. Waswo, bringing together works shaped by his long-standing engagement with photography and traditional Indian miniature painting. The exhibition follows a fictional story of a Dandy who travels to an Ancient Land and forms an intimate friendship with a Prince, leading to encounters with … Continued

October 10-November 20, 2026

LATITUDE 28, B-74, Ground Floor, Block B, Defence Colony, New Delhi

Satish Gujral: The Modernist Returns

JSW and Gujral Foundation present Satish Gujral: The Modernist Returns, a centenary exhibition celebrating the life and work of Indian modernist Satish Gujral. Curated by Pramod KG, the exhibition brings together over 100 works spanning painting, sculpture, drawing, mixed media and architecture, alongside photographs and archival material. Tracing Gujral’s artistic journey across decades and disciplines, … Continued

October 9-November 20, 2026

JSW x Gujral Foundation at National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

Where the Body Begins: Body : Group Show

Vida Heydari Contemporary presents Body, the final chapter of Where the Body Begins, a three-part group exhibition bringing together 45 Pune-born or Pune-based artists. Exploring the body as a space shaped by memory, sensation, desire, labour and lived experience, the exhibition examines how we are continually transformed by our surroundings, personal histories and social structures. … Continued

October 24-November 21, 2026

Vida Heydari Contemporary, Koregaon Park, Pune

In her Native Tongue: Group Show

Palette Art Gallery presents In Her Native Tongue, a group exhibition featuring works by six Indigenous women artists—Rita Shyam, Jyoti Uikey, Roshini Shyam, Anita Vyam, Japani Shyam and Santoshi Shyam. Rooted in Indigenous traditions, the exhibition explores memory, mythology, nature, community and everyday life through distinct contemporary visual languages. Drawing on inherited artistic practices, the … Continued

October 22-November 21, 2026

Palette Art Gallery, 14 Golf Links, New Delhi

Where the Body Begins: Group Show

Vida Heydari Contemporary presents Where the Body Begins, a three-part exhibition featuring 46 Pune-born and Pune-based artists. Unfolding through Memory, Nature, and Body, the exhibition explores how the body is shaped by memory, place, environment, labour, and lived experience. Where the Body Begins: Memory (8 August – 12 September) explores how memory is carried through … Continued

August 8-November 21, 2026

Vida Heydari Contemporary, Koregaon Park, Pune

Flora Fronsia Capitalis: Rasika de Silva

Saskia Fernando Gallery presents Flora Fronsia Capitalis, a solo exhibition by Sri Lankan artist Rasika de Silva. Through surreal, hybrid forms that merge human and botanical elements, de Silva explores the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Drawing on themes of power, gender and the exploitation of nature, his works question humanity’s place within … Continued

October 23-November 22, 2026

Saskia Fernando Gallery, 41 Horton Place, Colombo 07

A Few Things To See Along the Way: Kushal Ray’s Calcutta, Ladakh, and Home

Emami Art presents A Few Things To See Along the Way: Kushal Ray’s Calcutta, Ladakh, and Home. The exhibition brings together photographs by Kolkata-based photographer Kushal Ray, spanning three decades of his practice. Featuring selections from Intimacies (1998–2009), Ladakh: A Syncretic Living (1987–2017) and his photographs of Calcutta from 1990–1993, the exhibition offers an intimate … Continued

5-22 November, 2026

Emami Art at Museo Camera Centre for the Photographic Arts, Gurugram