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.

Trapped in a Broken Dream, I Still Think of You: Jagath Weerasinghe

Saskia Fernando Gallery presents Trapped in a Broken Dream, I Still Think of You, a solo exhibition of works by Jagath Weerasinghe. Reflecting on his deep sense of disillusionment with the systems that shape violence in the contemporary world, the exhibition brings together works that offer a critical and philosophical engagement with these realities, revealing … Continued

June 26-July 19, 2026

Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo

Six Rooms, One House: Group Show

47 A and Baro Art presents Six Rooms, One House, an exhibition curated by Srila Chatterjee that unfolds across six distinct rooms, each with its own character while forming part of a shared whole. Bringing together traditional and contemporary Indian art, the exhibition celebrates the breadth of artistic practices through the unique architecture and atmosphere … Continued

3-19 July, 2026

47 A, Girgaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Vichitra/विचित्र: Group Show

Emami Art and the Kolkata Centre for Creativity present Vichitra, a group exhibition bringing together fourteen artists across three generations. The exhibition travels from Bengal to Bihar to acknowledge and extend a cultural relationship between the two regions that stretches back centuries. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, textile, and print, the participating artists belong to no … Continued

1-21 July, 2026

Temporary Gallery, Bihar Museum, Patna

Shots In The Dark: Chandra Bhattacharjee

Art Alive Gallery presents Shots In The Dark, a solo show of works by Chandra Bhattacharjee. The exhibition presents a series of large-scale charcoal drawings that emerge from years of observing the people who inhabit the artist’s immediate surroundings, whose presence quietly shapes the urban landscape. Through these works, Bhattacharjee transforms ordinary encounters into moments … Continued

18-24 July, 2026

Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi

Structures of Belonging: Karl Singporewala and Suminder Virk

Runjeet Singh Gallery presents Structures of Belonging featuring artists Karl Singporewala and Suminder Virk. The exhibition explores how architectural sites operate not simply as physical structures, but as emotional and psychological spaces, where influences of faith, family, cultural heritage, and identity are preserved and reimagined. Find out more about the exhibition here.

June 5-July 25, 2026

Runjeet Singh Gallery, United Kingdom

Summer Nudes: Group Show

Aicon Art presents Summer Nudes, a salon exhibition bringing together more than thirty South Asian and diasporic artists whose works examine the many histories, meanings, and representations of the nude figure. Spanning from 17th- and 18th-century miniatures to contemporary painting and sculpture, the exhibition unfolds through six interconnected themes, classical, abstract, erotic, body politics, self-portrait, … Continued

June 18-July 25, 2026

Aicon Art, 35 Great Jones Street, New York

John Tun Sein Show

Aicon Art presents John Tun Sein, an exhibition of abstract paintings by the late artist. The exhibition focuses on the group of works by the artists from 2007, revisiting artist’s practice. The artworks at the exhibition consider Tun Sein’s belief in painting as an “expanded totality” that began in personal experience and extended outward through … Continued

June 18-July 25, 2026

Aicon Art, 35 Great Jones Street New York

Overland, There’s Shorter Time to Dream: Group Show

LATITUDE 28 presents Overland, There’s Shorter Time to Dream, a group exhibition curated by Shristi Sainani, bringing together sixteen artists from diverse geographical and cultural contexts. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, textile, and multidisciplinary practices, the exhibition explores migration beyond physical movement, examining questions of memory, language, displacement, belonging, and identity. Reflecting on migratory histories, … Continued

7-25 July, 2026

LATITUDE 28, Defence Colony, New Delhi

Manifesting in Continuum: Kaimurai

Blueprint12 presents Manifesting in Continuum, a solo exhibition by Kaimurai at Bayt Al Mamzar, Dubai. Working with natural indigo on khadi, the art works move between intention and surrender, a process in which line, gesture, and material become vessels for memory, resonance, and contemplation. The exhibition reflects on manifestation as an ongoing state of becoming. … Continued

May 16-July 25, 2026

Blueprint12 at Bayt Al Mamzar, Dubai

A Disquiet Tide – माती उत्रांत विरता : Group Show

Fulcrum presents A Disquiet Tide – माती उत्रांत विरता, an exhibition by Satyam Malhar, Wenceslaus Mendes, Pradeep Naik and Ashish Phaldesai. The exhibition considers the mangrove ecologies of Goa as lived environments shaped by tides, labour, memory, and time. The artworks reflect landscapes sustained through generations of ecological knowledge and care, exploring the impact of … Continued

June 11-July 25, 2026

Fulcrum, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai

The Shifting of Silence: Group Show

079|STORIES in collaboration with Space118 Art Foundation presents The Shifting of Silence,  a group exhibition featuring young emerging artists, Aman Kumar, Bavariya, Mousami Rajak, Samir Das, and Kashin Patel. Their works become meditations on disappearance, continuity, and the ways in which identity is shaped through movement, remembrance, and adaptation. The exhibition highlights how materials can … Continued

11-26 July, 2026

079|STORIES, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad

Exposed Spine: Neeraj Patel

Nature Morte, in collaboration with Jaipur Rugs presents Exposed Spine, a solo exhibition of new works by Neeraj Patel. The exhibition brings together monumental textile sculptures and woven interventions that emerge from Patel’s sustained engagement with artisan communities, industrial landscapes, and architectural fragments. Through hand-knotting, hand-tufting, embroidery, and layered material experimentation, the works examine the … Continued

3-26 July, 2026

Nature Morte, Dhan Mill, New Delhi

Summer Ceramics: Group Show

Gallery Vayu, in collaboration with Art Ichol, presents Summer Ceramics, featuring ceramic works by Milan Singh, Ravi Kumar, and Uday Singh. The exhibition examines the expressive possibilities of clay through forms inspired by animals, flowers, aquatic life, and organic textures. Rooted in themes of ecology, rural memory, and the passage of time, the works foreground … Continued

2-26 July, 2026

Gallery Vayu, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

Nandalal Bose: Postcards & More

Art Exposure presents Postcards and More, a solo exhibition of Nandalal Bose’s masterpieces. The exhibition offers an intimate glimpse into the artist’s everyday practice through works created on postcards—spaces where observation, experimentation, and personal expression converge. These works illuminate the breadth of Bose’s creative vision, revealing how the poetic sensibility that informed his monumental achievements … Continued

3-28 July, 2026

Art Exposure, Kolkata

Asymmetrical Synthesis: Prabhakar Kolte

Chemould Prescott Road presents Asymmetrical Synthesis, a solo exhibition by Prabhakar Kolte, curated by Jesal Thacker. The exhibition brings together Kolte’s recent paintings alongside writings, poems, lectures and archival videos, offering a glimpse into the artist’s creative journey. Through these works, the artist explores the coexistence of contrasting ideas without seeking balance or resolution. Find … Continued

9-29 July, 2026

Chemould Prescott Road, Fort, Mumbai

The Light and the Lotus: Relics of the Awakened One

The Light and the Lotus: Relics of the Awakened One presents a landmark exhibition centred on the sacred Piprahwa relics of Lord Buddha. Marking the historic reunification of ancient gem relics repatriated to India after 127 years with authentic archaeological materials from the ancient Kapilavastu site, the exhibition brings together more than eighty objects spanning … Continued

January 3-July 31, 2026 9:00 am — 8:30 pm

Rai Pithora Cultural Complex, Mehrauli, New Delhi