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.

Remembering The Bronze Wizard: Ratilal Kansodaria

Darshana Kansodaria and Living Legacies — Celebrating the Continuum presents Remembering The Bronze Wizard: Ratilal Kansodaria, a tribute exhibition honouring the life and legacy of sculptor and art educator Ratilal M. Kansodaria. Curated by Priya Adhyaru-Mehta, the exhibition brings together his sculptural works and stories from his artistic journey, celebrating his contribution to public art … Continued

11-18 October, 2026

Black Box Gallery, Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad

The Quiet Surface: Group Show

Studio Art Gallery presents The Quiet Surface, bringing together six artists whose practices explore paper as a space for memory, gesture, presence and transformation. Through drawing, layering, piercing, folding, marking and erasure, the surface becomes more than what we see. It holds what is remembered, what is restrained, what is revealed—and what remains quietly beneath. … Continued

August 19-October 19, 2026

Studio Art Gallery, New Delhi

In Another Mode: Sudhir Patwardhan

Vadehra Art Gallery presents In Another Mode: Sudhir Patwardhan’s Drawings 1970–2000, curated by R. Siva Kumar. Bringing together 200 drawings spanning three decades, the exhibition explores Patwardhan’s intimate studies of people, the city and everyday life. Through expressionist realism, his drawings capture vulnerability, solitude, relationships and the changing landscapes of urban Mumbai. The exhibition traces … Continued

September 25-October 23, 2026

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

Where the River Bends, I Begin Again: Feroza Hakeem

Pristine Contemporary presents Where the River Bends, I Begin Again by Feroza Hakeem, a new body of contemporary miniature paintings rooted in resilience, hope and abundance. Drawing from her personal history and Hazara heritage, Hakeem’s works acknowledge violence without allowing it to define the narrative. Barren mountains bloom with flowers, dry valleys carry blue streams, … Continued

September 23-October 23, 2026

Pristine Contemporary, New Delhi

A World Within Worlds: Ravi Kumar Chaurasiya

1X1 Art Gallery presents A World Within Worlds, an exhibition by Indian contemporary artist Ravi Kumar Chaurasiya, exploring human existence through surreal landscapes and dreamlike imagery. Bringing together elements of architecture, animals, water and vegetation, his paintings examine the relationship between human aspirations, urban development and the environment. Drawing on memory, observation and imagination, Chaurasiya … Continued

September 23-October 24, 2026

1X1 Art Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Line as Witness: Yusuf

1X1 Art Gallery presents Line as Witness, an exhibition by Indian contemporary artist Yusuf, exploring the line as a central element of artistic expression. Drawing on over four decades of practice, Yusuf uses repetition, rhythm and space across painting, drawing, thread and sculpture to create intricate abstract compositions. Working with restrained colours and carefully placed … Continued

September 23-October 24, 2026

1X1 Art Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The Weight of Things: Ruchika Wason Singh

1X1 Art Gallery presents The Weight of Things, a solo exhibition by Delhi-based artist Ruchika Wason Singh. Through layered paintings built with repeated marks and overlapping forms, Singh explores how everyday objects gather emotional significance through memory, attachment and habit. Drawing from her observations of domestic life, the exhibition examines our impulse to collect, preserve … Continued

September 23-October 24, 2026

1X1 Art Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

[PRIME]AL V: Studio Renn

Studio Renn presents the fifth chapter of [PRIME]AL, its ongoing exploration of indigenous art, narratives and abstraction through fine jewellery. The showcase brings together antique-cut diamonds, emeralds and pearls, translating ideas of sustenance, protection, creation myths and the passage of time into contemporary forms. Developed in collaboration with architecture practice Case Design, the exhibition explores … Continued

21-24 October, 2026

Studio Renn at IF.BE, Ballard Estate, Mumbai

Sangam: Raghav Babbar

Rajiv Menon Contemporary presents Sangam, Raghav Babbar’s debut US solo exhibition, across its Los Angeles space and The Armory Show in New York. Inspired by his experience at the 2025 Maha Kumbh, Babbar moves from intimate portraiture to expansive scenes of pilgrimage, faith and collective experience. Drawing on the tradition of European history painting, his … Continued

September 12-October 24, 2026

Rajiv Menon Contemporary, M1311 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, USA

For the Love of It: Contemporary Expressions in Printmaking: Group Show

Art Incept presents For the Love of It: Contemporary Expressions in Printmaking, a group exhibition curated by Jasneet Singh Bindra, featuring Aadya Kumari, Aniket D. Vishwasrao, Bellina Laithangbam, Jubin Das, K.M. Khushboo, and more. The exhibition celebrates printmaking as a slow, tactile and deeply process-driven practice. In an age of instant image-making, these artists embrace … Continued

September 24-October 24, 2026

Art Incept, 227, South Point Mall, Golf Course Road, Sector 53, Gurugram

Neha Vedpathak: In Plain Sight

Sundaram Tagore Gallery presents In Plain Sight, a solo exhibition by Neha Vedpathak. Bringing together the themes of land, body, and spirit, the exhibition reflects a practice shaped by place, lived experience, and wonder. Vedpathak translates the physical character of place into abstraction while drawing on the transformative experience of motherhood and the body to … Continued

August 15-October 24, 2026

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 5 Lock Road 01–05, Gillman Barracks, Singapore

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

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

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