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.

‘I will become a river’ (‘Main Nadi Banungi’):Durgabai Vyam

The Guild presents ‘I Will Become a River’ (‘Main Nadi Banungi’), a solo exhibition by Durgabai Vyam, curated by Nancy Adajania. The exhibition brings together works that revisit the many tales of the Narmada rooted in the inherited Pardhan Gond oral tradition. Spanning painting, miniature sculpture, video, and song, the exhibition traces Vyam’s decades-long engagement … Continued

August 17-October 11, 2026

The Guild, Alibaug

Between Presence and Absence: Dhananjay Singh

Black Cube Gallery and Sculpted India presents Between Presence and Absence, a solo show by Dhananjay Singh. The exhibition is a selection of works spanning his practice, bringing together works that explore the fluid boundaries between the human and the natural, presence and absence, growth and decay. It is an ode to his practice, a … Continued

12-15 October, 2026

Black Cube Gallery x Sculpted India at Travancore Palace - Art Gallery, New Delhi

Post-Forensic Hangover: Niroj Satpathy & Sibdas Sengupta

Gallery Dotwalk presents Post-Forensic Hangover, a two-person exhibition featuring Niroj Satpathy and Sibdas Sengupta, bringing together sculptural, text-based and painterly works, the exhibition explores how objects, materials and places can hold traces of events and memory. Drawing from research, field visits, conversations and found materials, the artists examine what remains after an event and how … Continued

September 25-October 16, 2026

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

One Home, Many Nests: Group Show

MAG Contemporary presents One Home, Many Nests, bringing together the work of seven artists who are also mothers, exploring how motherhood has shaped their creative practices and artistic journeys. Featuring Aninda Varma, Debasree Das, Ruchika Wason Singh, Prerna Sharma, Mahima Kapoor, Shyamali Haldar and Sonal Varshneya, the exhibition looks at care, identity, time, family and … Continued

September 18-October 17, 2026

MAG Contemporary, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi

Sacred Spaces: V. Ramesh

Gallery Threshold presents Sacred Spaces, a survey exhibition of V. Ramesh featuring paintings and watercolours from over 25 years of his practice. The exhibition explores Ramesh’s sustained engagement with devotion, spirituality, memory and human experience. Drawing from traditional stories, ancient manuscripts, devotional poetry and the lives of Bhakti and Sufi saints, his works use allegory … Continued

9-17 October, 2026

Gallery Threshold at CCA (both floors) Bikaner House, New Delhi

Visual Disobedience: Group Show

KYNKYNY presents Visual Disobedience, a group exhibition featuring Yuvan Bothysathuvar, S. Ravi Shankar, Saravanan Parasuraman and Ganesh Selvaraj. Exploring line, geometry, colour and form, the exhibition brings together four artists engaging with abstraction through paper and iron. Drawing from the legacy of the Madras Art Movement, their practices transform paper through cutting, folding and layering, … Continued

September 19-October 17, 2026

KYNKYNY, 104 Embassy Square, 148 Infantry Road, Bangalore

Internal Balance: Arik Levy

Akara Contemporary presents Internal Balance, a solo by Arik Levy. Levy’s sculptures explore balance, movement and the tension between stability and transformation. Working across steel, bronze, glass and marble, he creates forms that appear both organic and industrial, drawing connections between nature, technology and the human experience. From monumental Rock formations to delicate, seemingly suspended … Continued

September 10-October 17, 2026

Akara Contemporary, Colaba, Mumbai

Urja – What returns, Changes – A Tribute to Rini Dhumal

Nexus Art and Catharsis Art Gallery present Urja – What Returns, Changes, a tribute to artist Rini Dhumal, spanning nearly five decades of her practice. Bringing together paintings, sketches, prints, tapestry and ceramics, the exhibition traces her deeply personal language of memory, mythology and lived experience. Recurring figures of women, goddesses, birds, trees and landscapes … Continued

September 18-October 17, 2026

Eff.co, Sardar Patel Ring Road, Besides Ninja Parkour X, Ambli, Ahmedabad

Belong by Chanakya School

Chanakya School presents Belong at Experimenter–Colaba, Mumbai, and second with the gallery, marking four decades of her textile practice. Bringing together expansive textile works and monumental sculptures, the exhibition explores belonging as an ongoing negotiation between body, ecology, memory, and inherited knowledge. Through intricate accumulations of cotton, silk, glass, and recycled beads, Chanakya creates shifting landscapes … Continued

September 10-October 17, 2026

Experimenter–Colaba, Mumbai

खारी गाबोली | Salted Caviar: Parag Tandel

TARQ presents खारी गाबोली | Salted Caviar, a solo exhibition by Mumbai-based artist Parag Tandel. Bringing together sculpture, cyanotype, textiles and archival research, Tandel’s works explore the ecological, cultural and political histories of Mumbai’s Koli fishing communities. Drawing on geological deep time, oral histories, food traditions and indigenous knowledge systems, the exhibition reflects on questions … Continued

September 10-October 17, 2026

TARQ, Fort, Mumbai

Lone Runner’s Laboratory: Prabhakar Pachpute

Experimenter presents the second iteration of Lone Runner’s Laboratory, a solo exhibition by Prabhakar Pachpute featuring sculptures and paintings. Drawing on the artist’s long-term engagement with mining landscapes, agricultural sites, and conversations with workers and activists, the exhibition reflects on individual quest and systemic exploitation, exploring the emotional, psychological, and social conditions of contemporary life … Continued

July 17-October 17, 2026

Experimenter Outpost, Alipore Museum, Kolkata

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

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