Born in the village of Variav, which is now a suburb of the larger Surat, Gujarat. I belong to a farmer’s family, much like the majority of the families in our village. I have been a part of this amazing process of turning sweat into food since I was a young child.

Aside from the difficulties farmers face due to contemporary expectations, I was one of the fascinating observers of how urbanization gradually buried its roots in the farmer's way of life. In reaction, I focused more on the same location after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts, VNSGU Surat.

Initially, I tried to address the stark difference between rural life, farming, and urbanization; however, as time went on, my practice became more metaphorical and object-based, and my work was strengthened during post-graduation from MSU Baroda. In this time by a number of internships and a farming related dissertation.

Later, I enrolled in a summer residence programme at SPACE STUDIO Baroda, and residency in Mumbai at Immerse 2.0 , where I had numerous opportunity to create more art and engage in social interaction.I have been working as a studio practitioner at VIS-VIS Artists studio in Baroda for the past year.

Bheeshma Sharma b. 1993, Manipur (India) is a visual artist investigating the influence of the current socio-political climate of the homeland and other regions with personal anecdotes and are often visited.

Inspired from ancestral family displacement, eyewitnesses, and reminiscing memories following the second world war that played a decisive role in forming a distinctive outlook on the modern day paradigm and the challenges. His works in sculpture, paintings and digital renderings often depict eerie alienating landscapes.

Biswajit Thakuria is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolves around social memories and landscape dialogues. He investigates landscapes as intricate, multi-layered phenomena, aiming to revisit significant events from Assam’s past by engaging with archival memories, both public and private.

Within his approach, there is a deliberate investigation into the role of power—not only in controlling and erasing these events but also in shaping the representation of landscapes.

Biswajit’s practice spans photography, videos, and drawings and he primarily works with organic materials inspired by the process of mask-making in Assam.

He did his BFA and MFA from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan in 2020 and 2022 respectively. He works around Guwahati and Santiniketan.

Moumita Basak (b.1996, West-Bengal) earned her BFA (2020) and MFA (2022) in Painting from Govt. College of Art and Craft, Calcutta University. Basak’s is a community-oriented, textile-based practice borrowing from the traditional Kantha embroidery craft of Bengal.

As an eco-feminist artist, Basak is primarily engaged with everyday lives, memories and experiences of middle-class women, and how markers of masculinity and femininity intertwine with overlapping discourses on ecology, recycling and sustainability, especially in her native area. Her artistic themes rooted in the socio-cultural fabric of Bengal also encompass issues of civil rights and experiences from marginalized gender, caste and the working-class communities.

Exploring questions of identity, belonging, and cultural heritage, her practice is an attempt to locate ‘Kantha’ craft as a site of contemporary experimentation and revivability.

Satyam Yadav (he/his) graduated with a Master's in Gender Studies from SHS, Ambedkar University Delhi, while his Bachelor's was in History from Ramjas College, University of Delhi.

Academically, he is broadly interested in questions of the political economy, contemporary arts and art institutions, and visual cultures of queerness, health and sexuality in relation to the wider intellectual traditions of South Asia. Satyam's recent research engagements and writings have centered on queer- feminist biopolitical histories of India, and the politics of hurt, identity and representation in the contemporary arts.

Shiv's works are about rearming his social identity in his locale which has connections regarding social imposition, dominance, defamation, and the dream of an egalitarian society. I try to focus on the belongings which are stuck in time as recognizing elements of my familial and societal settings in which an individual functions

Nostalgia plays a significant Role and caste is a "reality" in Bihar and how much caste is engrained in this nostalgic tracing in my work is very important. And it begins by the very caste I belong to,"Yadav". In the past, this caste has always been vocal about its issues in the hierarchical system of caste structure.

I can also see the only caste which gains dominance in the politics of the North regions of India are Yadavas, so it can be said as maligning a caste that is considered lower in the strata of caste structure is very much evident and not justified.

A few of the events which have happened like Chara Ghotala by Lalu Yadav, Rocky Yadav road rage case, and discrimination on scientific evaluation can justify judging the whole caste as mindless people.

Srishti (1998) is an Artist from Lucknow. She completed her BFA from Delhi College of art and MFA from Kala Bhawana, Santiniketan. Srishti is currently based in Santiniketan, West Bengal.

She travel to gather stories about people's togetherness, culture, cuisine, crafts, way of life, and traditions; second, she -create books with revolutionary poetry, interviews, and texts that pose crucial questions for humanity through the medium poems, printmaking, papermaking, weaving and installation

Work is informed by the forms, themes, and iconography found in Naga tribal culture, which mostly developed as a result of observing native flora and fauna.

His artistic approach has been guided by the notion of estrangement inside one's own nation from the periphery and encountered experience at the nation's center, as well as occurrences and formations of tribal cultural practices of "creating" against the given discriminations.

Thamsangpha lives and works in Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

Additionally, he was also a fellow at Immerse 2023, Somaiya Vidyavihar University, powered by Carpe Arte, Young Art Support, and Shaleen Wadhwana, Mumbai, 2022, residency at HH artspace goa 2023, India Art fair artist in residency delhi 2023, He is currently doing an artist’s residency under Natraj Sharma.

Awarded for FICA emerging artists award 2023, international award for student Biennale kochi 2023.

Currently working with a project with Anant Art Gallery Delhi

Born in 1993, in Bangalore, Karnataka, Anilakumar Govindappa is a multidisciplinary artist. While trained as a painter and printmaker, he works across mediums combining printmaking, painting, ceramics, and installations. Anilakumar graduated in Painting from KEN School of Art, Hampi University in 2012 and later completed his master’s in Printmaking from S N School of Art and Communication, University of Hyderabad in 2015.

He has participated in several national and international exhibitions and biennales. He has received the Young Artists Award from the Ministry of Art and Culture, Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi Scholarship, South Indian Art Exhibition Jury Award – Chandra Ilango Foundation. His works were exhibited at the Osten Biennale of Drawing Skopje in 2016, LandSpaces a group art show – in Chennai in 2019, Chi Gallery – in Iran in 2020, Vusawthis Art Gallery Canada 2020, and Immerse group exhibition – in Mumbai in 2022.

Anilakumar bagged several artists residency programs and workshops such as Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi Graphic Printmaking Fellowship 2021, Space Studio sculpture residency 2020, Kalakriti residency, Nine Fish Art Gallery residency, National Printmaking Workshop – Visva Bharati University - Santiniketan, Dhi Art Space woodcut workshop and many more.

Anilakumar's work resembles a diary of events that took place in his everyday life. He leaves nothing behind from his observation and the remembrances of such events. The places and people connected with him in a day-to-day environment appear in his images quite often and become a 360-degree view of the life around him. Sometimes, he deliberately implants metaphorical visual elements that resemble his personal interpretation or statements about material existence.

Anilakumar's work is not only about capturing the essence of an event but also conveying its meaning by using metaphors and symbols. He is absorbed in exploring how human beings perceive their world and how they interpret it based on their experiences.

His visual narratives are not just about one thing at a certain time, instead, they are about various things at diverse points and times that turned into a book of short stories eventually. As one walks through the pages, one will come across different moments of life, and it goes on For him, the process of drawing is an extension of his thought process, where there would be no place for anything else other than a pure expression in its primitive preliminary state. The rawness of the drawings reflects the ambiguity of the thoughts running in his mind, and it is where he would relate his thought process with the genuine and humble images that evolved in his drawings.

Jaimini Jariwala is a visual artist and printmaker based in Surat.She completed her Masters in printmaking and graphics from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University,Vadodara in 2017.

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Visual arts (painting) from Surat School of Fine Arts,Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat.

Born in Bolpur, West Bengal, in 1995, printmaker Jayeeta Chatterjee currently lives and works in Bangalore, Karnataka. While trained as a printmaker, she works across mediums, combining printmaking, textiles, and embroidery. Jayeeta Chatterjee graduated in Graphic Art (Printmaking) from Visva-Bharati University in 2018 and later got her post-graduation degree (2018-2020) from M.S. University in Printmaking.

She has participated in several national and international exhibitions. She secured third position in the HIT woodcut print festival in Norway and received the GOA prize in Norway. Her works were exhibited in South Korea at the Ulsan woodcut festival. I have participated in many group shows and competitions in India, like Space 118, Akara Art Gallery, Immerse, Shrishti Art Gallery, etc. She participated in the Khoj peers residency in 2021 in Delhi, the Banyan Hearts residency in Hyderabad in 2021, Immerse residency and exhibition in 2022 in Mumbai.

Growing up to see middle-class women in a suburb, she finds their monotonous, routine-bound day-to-day life as necessary subjects as they live as the 'silent', existing but unseen, unnoticed section. Jayeeta observed their limited movements and activities moving around the interior space of a house and, thus, their relationship with the space. On the other hand, she had a continuous quest to build a relationship between her content and medium.

Therefore, she decided to take prints on ‘used sarees’ collected from homemakers and make ‘Nakshi-Kantha’ (traditional embroidery and quilting technique of Bengal), which is essentially a women’s medium - mainly homemaker women’s medium in the context of rural and suburb Bengal. By nurturing the politics of ‘Kantha’,she explores multiple roles of women’s daily chores in interior spaces in the context of an individual's culture, economic stability, the vision of their life, upbringing and so on. quest to build a relationship between her content and medium. Therefore, she decided to take prints on ‘used sarees’ collected from homemakers and make ‘Nakshi-Kantha’ (traditional embroidery and quilting technique of Bengal), which is essentially a women’s medium mainly homemaker women’s medium in the context of rural and suburb Bengal. By nurturing the politics of ‘Kantha’, she explores multiple roles of women’s daily chores in interior spaces in the context of an individual's culture, economic stability, the vision of their life, upbringing and so on.

Gavara Satyanarayana born in 1997 in Narayanapuram, Andhra Pradesh. He completed his BFA in Printmaking from Andhra University (2018), MFA in Printmaking from M S University of baroda (2020).

Food and the politics behind its production and its consumption have been the most concerning engagement in his works. Satyanarayana has won several awards including the 1 st Print Biennale India Grand Prize Award Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi in 2018 and State art Gallery Award Hyderabad in 2019 and the Birla Academy award in 2022 and "Abir First take" award 2023.

He has been participated many exhibitions, Which Sky Do Birds Fly, Latitude 28 in 2023; Continuum, Kalakriti 2023; Baroda Annual, Gallery White 2023; Cima 2022; Mini print Triennial, japan 2018; mini print Triennial Ukraine 2021, SYPA in Bangladesh2019. The artist lives and works in Baroda.

Shubham Kumar is an artist from Gaya, Bihar and is currently based in Vadodara. His work is informed by familial introspection that traces the politics of land, construction, and regional violence. Images, ideas and creatures from his native land operate as metaphors.

Paintings, fabrication, poetics of space and image transfer are primarily used to make sense of the complex ideological narratives that have been imposed onto the life of the region.

Dhiraj Rabha was born in a pristine village named Borali Gaon, Assam, India, and grew up in an ex-ULFA detention camp in Goalpara, Assam. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 2016, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 2021. Later, he completed his Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

Gaurang Naik (b.1996) has completed his Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from Goa College of Art (2019), and completed his Masters of Visual Art in Painting from M.S. University of Baroda (2021). Born and brought up in a village in south Goa, surrounded on one side by the iron ore mining hub and on the other by the ancient capital of Goa. His practice tries to evoke the idea of loss and transience. The collision between humans and nature; the consequences this interaction leaves behind in the form of textures, dust, and scars of traces in the surroundings is what captures his attention.

Recently, he has participated in the SAIL Mentorship Programme for Creative Practitioners at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for The Arts (2022), Students Biennale Workshop – “Unmaking conventions: Location as Resource” by Sanchayan Ghosh (2021). He has also been part of group exhibitions Sunaparanta Goa Centre for The Arts, India Art Fair, New Delhi (2022), HH Art Spaces, Goa (2022-23), 102nd The Art Society of India, Mumbai (2020); ‘Into the Vault’ with Goa Artist Collective at the Museum of Goa (2019).

He is also a recipient of the Late Milind Madhukar Bhade Gold Medal, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Vadodara (2022), Gujarat, Batch of 1990 award for best work, Goa College of Art (2019), Late Hanumant B. Neugi Memorial Prize, 44th State Art Exhibition Kala Academy, Goa (2019); Awarded 1st Prize, 43rd State Art Exhibition, Kala Academy, Goa (2018).

I'm a literature graduate currently pursuing an MA in Society & Culture, focusing on oral narratives and visual anthropology. You’ll find me immersed in all things arts, heritage, and culture-related. I’m always up for exploring new cities and discovering the hidden gems be it museums, galleries, second hand book stores or thrift shops.

Harun Al Rashid Mollah (born in 1997, Howrah) completed his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Painting from the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication at the University of Hyderabad, Telangana in 2023.

He also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Painting from The Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, which he completed in 2021.

Harun's primary area of Interest revolves around exploring native cultures, cultural heritage, and the surrounding social ecosystem, observing how they transform in response to contemporary times.

In his recent artistic practice, he has focused on engaging with and understanding the caste and religious systems, as well as their pros and cons, while also examining their impact on the current socio-political

Lakshya Bhargava is a Visual Artist from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh and is currently based in Bangalore. He Completed his Bachelor’s Degree from Bengaluru School Of Visual Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath (2018-2022) in Painting.

His current practice is dealing with inquiries concerning his memories, fantasies, exploration of self, queer experiences, queer friendships and scenes of empowerment. They revolve around the ideas of invisibility, fragmented display of reality, and partial truths embedded in everyday conversations and life.

Malik Irtiza (Kashmir) is a visual artist whose work traverses across various media such as installation, video, sound, text and sculpture. Situated at the intersection of artistic speculation and historical enquiry, her work seeks to develop possibilities of looking at time and voids to articulate the questions of language, memory, everyday life and history writing in contested territories.

The work locates itself in the void(s), disrupted, incoherent, non-sensible, and de- ordered inarticulations. It takes recourse in folklore, storytelling, myth-making and local histories to open up discussions about fragmented time in contested territories. Irtiza is based in Srinagar, Kashmir.

Shikha Soni is a visual artist based in Baroda, Gujarat. Her art practice is an inquiry into the nature of the construction of the self and what it means to be human by excavating the interior spaces of one's home, family, childhood, and relationships.

She creates drawings and paintings while also photographing her primary subject - people. She completed her MVA from SNU, Delhi NCR (2023), and her BVA from MSU Baroda (2021). Her works have been exhibited in Kochi-Muziris Students Biennale, Kochi (2022-23)&(2021), Anant Art Gallery, Noida(2023) and India Art Fair (2023).

Surajit Mudi is an interdisciplinary practitioner working with alternative practices of photography within a variety of spaces. He has been exploring the idea of working with performative image-making practices in public spaces, and looks forward to studying the complexity of interactions, mobilities and publics with which alternative practices of image-making engender and converse. He currently lives and works in Santiniketan.

Umesh Singh is a visual arts practitioner, research scholar. Singh is a native of the Bihar village of Kurmurhi, which is close to the city of Aarah. He earned a Gold Medal in the subject of Printmaking in 2019 at University of Hyderabad.

In 2017 Umesh completed his fine arts bachelor's degree with a from subject painting from the Banaras Hindu University. He is currently pursuing doctors of philosophy from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in the research area of Ecological Arts practices in Indian Art of 21st Century (Rural Context). He as an artist likes to pursue work in intra-disciplinary art.