EDUCATION
2012-2015 MFA in Intermedia, University of Iowa, USA [Full Scholarship]
2005-2012 Indian classical dance of Odissi, with critically acclaimed choreographer Madhavi Mudgal, New Delhi
2003-2007 BFA in Applied Design, College of Art, Delhi University
RESIDENCIES
2018 Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn
2018 HH Arts Spaces, Goa, India
2016 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, NE
2015 OMI International, NY
2015 Yaddo Residency, NY
2014 Skowhegan school of painting and sculpture, ME [Full Scholarship]
2011 Tellus Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Bishkek Art Centre, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
2018 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award (interdisciplinary artist category), NYC
2018 Inlaks Foundation Award, for HH Arts Spaces Residency, Mumbai
2015 Dedalus Foundation Fellowship, NYC [Finalist]
2014 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
2014 Mildred Pelzer Fellowship, IA
2009 National - Freedom of Expression Award, Infinity Films, Mumbai
2009 Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2004 Swapan Biswas Award, Delhi University, New Delhi
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS and INVITED LECTURES
2020 Miracle Marks - presentation with performance with Purvi Shah's book reading, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2020 American Dream Redux - panel presentation, Asian American Arts Alliance, NYC
2019 Odissi Odyssey - lecture and dance performance at International Education Week, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
2018 Invited lecture on changing aesthetics in Sikhism in England and US, Mercy College, Bronx Campus
2018 Presentation at Architecture+Design Adda, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
2017 Aesthetics of surface design in Indian textiles, of last 300 years, Hunter College, NYC (Department of Theater)
2016 Lecture Demonstration for Kronos Collection of Indian Miniatures, Metropolitan Museum, NYC.
(In collaboration with Rajika Puri)
2016 Visiting artist’s lecture, University of Nebraska, Omaha
2015 Movement and Mediation, Queens Museum, NYC
2015 The Idea of Land and Landscape in Odissi, Yaddo, NY
2014 Sari Convention - Inter-relativity in India music and textiles, South Asian Studies Program, University of Iowa, USA
2013 Sensual and the Spiritual - lecture with dance on 13th c. Sanskrit Love Poetry, University of Iowa, USA
2013 Lecture demonstration in Odissi, Spic Macay India chapter at University College London, United Kingdom
SELECTED SHOWS SOLO SHOW*
2020 - DARSHAN performance project, Sydney/Perth/ Melbourne, Australia (upcoming)
2019 - SO MANY JOURNEYS, Englert Theater, Iowa City (solo)*
2019 - THROUGH THE KĀLI-EROS, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NYC
2018 - THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES, Performance project for The Progressives show, Asia Society Museum, NYC
2018 - RE-IMAGINING INDIAN DANCE: MOVING FORWARD, Asia Society, NYC
2018 - GARDEN OF SKIN, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2018 - PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL:32 for New Dance Alliance, University Settlement - Lower Manhattan, NYC
2018 - RE: ART SHOW 21, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NYC
2018 - LOVE 2018 - PURPLE HEARTS, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NYC
2017 - ARCHITECTONICS OF DISPERSION-immersive acts and objects, Ortega y Gasset Projects, NYC (solo)*
2017 - FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH, Theater Y at 14th street, NYC
2016 - PADMA-STHANA, Panoply Laboratory, NYC
2016 - PRINCE OF DANCE, Drive East Festival, La Mama Theatre, NYC
2016 - NOLI ME TANGERE II, Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival, Chicago
2016 - EXPLORING MANSOLLASA, Performance, Queens Museum, NYC
2015 - STATIC IN MOVEMENT, Installation, Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh, India
2015 - STRUCTURE IS WHAT I SPEAK Of, Installation Gallery, University of Iowa (solo)*
2015 - NAAPAN II, Kolkata International Performance Art festival III, Calcutta, India
2014 - NOLI ME TANGERE, Collaboration with Heidi Wiren Bartlett, Levitt Gallery, Iowa City (solo)*
2014 - SPEAK PARROT SPEAK at I TALK THE ZIGGURAT, Englert Theatre, Iowa City
2014 - SKOWHEGAN PERFORMS, Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC
2014 - +THOUSAND EYES, Collaborative Performance. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (solo)*
2014 - TINYSOME - and my translation, Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting
2014 - CONIC at TINY TEN, Englert Theatre, Iowa City
2014 - OF MOONS & TORSOS, drawing based performance, Gallery Porch, Iowa City, IA (solo)*
2014 - SANKEERNA JAGATĪ and NAAPAN, Kolkata International Performance Arts Festival II, Calcutta, India
2013 - CONSTRUCTION OF LOSS, Gallery Exhibit 320, New Delhi
2011 - PREVIEW: KULDEEP SINGH, Gallerie Romain Rolland, Alliance de Francaise, New Delhi (solo)*
2009 - NAVSAR Annual Show, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
2009 - Ctr, Alt+Dlt, Gallery Stainless Steel, New Delhi
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2015 TALK THE TEMPLE, Collaborative Production, Englert Theatre, Iowa City
2014 I TALK THE ZIGGURAT, Englert Theatre, Iowa City
2014 AND THOUSAND EYES, Collaborative Performance. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
2014 TINYSOME, Performance Project. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2011 THE STORY COMPOUNDERS, Visual Art Show. L'institut supérieur des arts appliqués, New Delhi
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012-2015 Elements of Art and Design | Drawing , Instructor of record, University of Iowa, IA
2009-2012 Lecturer for Indian Aesthetics, College of Art, Delhi University, New Delhi
2011-2012 Visiting lecturer for drawing, L'institut supérieur des arts appliqués, New Delhi
2010-2012 Visiting lecturer for applied arts, IILM School of Design, Gurgaon
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018 Documentary film design, and archives design for Ruchira Gupta, Apne Aap International, NYC
2017 Yearbook design, Downtown Manhattan Community Television, Manhattan. NYC
2016 Research/technical assistant to artist Christopher Myer, NYC
2011 Cultural Expertise to University of Iowa (Studio Arts Program), for Arts and Architectural program in South India
2009 THE DREAM MUSUEM PROJECT, Researcher for DEVI ART FOUNDATION in collaboration with
ASIA ART ARCHIVES-Hong Kong, New Delhi
2008 Assistant to Eminent Art Historian Benoy K. Behl, New Delhi
2007 Assistant, Vinita Chand Design Associates, New Delhi