2021
Elisions and Inflections. Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany. Curated by Anja Ellenberger.
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2020
Incisions Inflections Aberrations. at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore.
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2019
Incisions Inflections Aberrations at Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany Curated by Anja Ellenberger.
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2018
Conditions of Infirmity at The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug, Mumbai. November 2018 – February 2019
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2015
Sep - Oct : Continuum Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2013
Jan - Mar : Anatomy of Silence at The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2011
Matters Under the Skin under Asia One, Hong Kong International Art Fair, with Guild Art Gallery. May 2011
2009
Intertwinings at Vadehra Art Gallery, Okhla, New Delhi. August-September 2009.
2007
Recent works at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai, India. Dec 2006
2025
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* (Upcoming) with Gallery 320 10th year Anniversary exhibition, curated by Deeksha Nath At Bikaner House, August 2025
* Mycelial Legacies iii Curated by Deeksha Nath. at Space Studio, Baroda (Feb - March 2025)
2024
* Telling Time Under the Soil Curated by Aranya Bhowmick, Gallerie Splash, Bikaner House Nov 2024.
* Entwined Group show at Gallery Apparao, Bikaner House, Delhi, Aug 2024
* Moments of Collapse – Group show curated by Gigi Scaria, at Nehru Centre, New Delhi, hosted by Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust(SAHMAT). April-June 2024
* Entwined Group show at Gallery Apparao, Chennai. Jan-Feb 2024, Bikaner House Delhi, Aug 2024
2023
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* In the Dusky Path of a Dream. Curated by Meena Vari. Rizq Art Initiative, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 23rd Nov 2023-3rd Feb 2024
* Mycelial Legacies ii Curated by Deeksha Nath, at Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, CSMVS, Mumbai. June-Sep 2023.
* Mycelial Legacies Curated by Deeksha Nath. Hosted by Anant Art Gallery, Shown at Bikaner House, New Delhi. 29th Jan- 12th Feb 2023.
2022
* Past-Present-Continuous. 25 Years of Guild Gallery, Bikaner House, New Delhi. August 2022
* The Promise of Grass Curated by Adwait Singh, 05 Mardin Biennale, Turkey. May, June 2022.
* All Canaries Bear Watching, at School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU. Curated by Premjish Achari, Part of GRIDS Heritage project, February 2022
2021
* 2021(Me)(Memory) – at Vadehra Art Gallery. Curated by Dipti Anand Material Metaphor. An online exhibition hosted by Astanzi.com. Curated by Aranya Bhowmik
2020
* Games of Chance at Sunaparanta Goa Centre of Contemporary Art
* India Art Fair with The Guild Art gallery. Mumbai.
2019
* Text Matters at The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug. Nov 2019-Feb 2020.
* Narrow Road to the Interior, at Vadehra Art Gallery New Delhi. Nov 2019
* ‘Open Borders’, The 14th Curitiba International Biennale at Brazil. Curated by Adolfo Montejo Navas and Tereza de Arruda. Sep 2019 – Feb 2020.
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* Voiceover curated by Meena Vari, at Gallery Ragini, New Delhi. Jan 2019
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* Critical Constellations at The Twin Art Gallery, IGNCA, New Delhi. Hosted by FICA New Delhi.
2018
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* Connecting Threads: Textiles in Contemporary Practice. Dec 2018- Feb 2019. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai.
* The Material Eye Curated by Meena Vari. At Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore. August 2018.
* Veritable Concoctions. Curated by Nirali Lal, with Yep Art, At Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda. March 2018.
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* Turn of the Tide 20-20. Artists for Khoj. At Khoj studios. Collateral India Art Fair. Feb 2018. ​​​​​​​​​
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2017
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* Here and Beyond, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan. (28 Oct- 11 Dec)
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2016
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* Final Review, at G-159 art space, Yelahanka N.T, Bangalore. (Apr 9th - 18th)
* Trans- Feminism, Alternative Perspective and Beyond. Curated by Narae Jin, Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi. (Feb - Mar)
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2015
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* Inbox Curated by George Martin PJ. Hill Fort palace, Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad. (Oct)
* Impulses in Drawing curated by Shivangi Singh, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. (Jul - Aug)
* Memoir at The Loft at Lower Parel. (Aug)
* The Guild Collection II - Outremer. Curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug, Mumbai. March to May,
* India Art Fair, with The Guild Art Gallery, Vadehra Art Gallery, The Loft Gallery, at New Delhi.
2014
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* Drawing 2014, Curated by Annapurna Garimella and Sindhura Jois. Espace Art Gallery, New Delhi
* The LOFT Anniversary Show.
* START Art Fair at Saatchi Art Gallery, London, with The Loft Art Gallery, Mumbai
* Colombo Biennale, Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Jan - Feb)
* India Art Fair, with Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
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2013
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* Fiber Visions Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, PRC.
* Ghar Ghar ki Baat (Tales from Two Homes), Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia. (September)
* 'Zones of Contact' curated by Vidya Sivadas, Akansha Rastogi and Deeksha Nath, at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida, UP.
2012
* 'Porous' a group show Curated by Vidya Sivadas, at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. September 2012
2011
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* "Generation in Transition: New Art from India," at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Vilnius Art Centre, Lithuania.
* 'Drawings' at Chemould Art Gallery, Mumbai. August
* 'Turn of the Tide' with Tangerine Art Space, Bangalore. July
* India Art Summit, January 2011, with The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
* Art Stage Singapore, with The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2010
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* "Notes on the (Dis)appearance of the Real" ,at Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, October 2010.
* "I Think, Therefore Graffit...", at The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, New York, August
* Reverie , a group show at Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai. July 2010
* Triad: Introspection, Observation and Tradition, an exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, at Lovel and Museum/Gallery, Loveland, Colorado. (June-Aug)
* Bring me a Lion; an exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, at Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri. Curated by Jeffrey Hughes and Dana Turkovic. (Mar -Apr)
* Roots; Group show commemorating 25 years of Sakshi Gallery, at The Park, Chennai Jan 2010
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2009
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* Sculpture at The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai. Dec 09- Jan 2010
* The New Vangaurds, at The Guild Art Gallery New York and Saffron Art, September- October
* Analytical Engine Group Show Curated by Heidi Fitchner. At Bose Pacia, Kolkata. Jan-Feb
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2008
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* Participated at Art Asia Miami, with the Guild Art Gallery, Booth 160. December 4-7, Miami, Florida.
* The Ego, The Persona, The Shadow, And the Old Man or was it The Great Mother? A group show curated by Ombretta Agro at The Guild New York. November 20th-December 20th
* Parables of the Thread. A group show curated by Jayaram Poduval. At The Loft, Mumbai. November 2008
* Through a Glass, Darkly; Reflections on the Self Portrait. Group Show at The Guild Art Gallery. October 2008
* Filament A group show commemorating 5 Years of Peers Residency at Khoj, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, (Aug)
* Participated in the Hong Kong Art Fair with Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art(FICA), Vadehra Art Gallery (May)
* Inner Vision, Group show curated by Subbalakshmi Shulka, at The Guild Art Gallery, New York (Mar)
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2007
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Beyond Images, Group show at Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda, Gujarat, India, October 2007
2003
​Qualified the National Eligibility Test for Lectureship and Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India.
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2001-2003
​MFA (Sculpture), M.S.University, Baroda.
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1996-2000
​BFA (Painting), M.S.University, Baroda.
2007​
Emerging Artist Award by Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India. Sep 2007
2006​
Inlaks Scholarship for the UNIDEE in residence at Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy. May 2006
2003​​
National Merit Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, HRD, Govt. of India. 2003 - 2005
Since 2020
Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Visual Arts, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana. India.
2021-2024
Head of the Department of Visual Arts, Ashoka University – 1st June 2021 to 31st July. 2024.
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2020
Higher education Art Curriculum Workshop with Gallery Ark and Reliable Copy- Amongst Many Ruins. December 2020.
2023
All that Discard 2 days’ practice workshop on recycling into Arts at Jehangir Nicholson Foundation, CSMVS, August 2023
2022
Space 118 Fine Art Grant Mentorship August- Dec 2022
2018-20
Visiting Faculty at Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore. 2020 Visiting Faculty at K.R.Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts
January 2020.
2019
Visiting Faculty workshop at Fine arts Department, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, Hyderabad Central University. Hyderabad. February 2019.
2016-17
Visiting Associate Professor at School of Culture and Creative Expression,
Ambedkar University, Delhi.
2015-16
Visiting Faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore.
Visiting Faculty at Acharya Institute of Art and Design, Bangalore.
2012-2014
Full time faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.
2004-2012
Guest Faculty at Fine Arts Department, S N School of Arts and Communication, Hyderabad Central University, February 2004 - May 2006; July 2007- May 2011, Jan 2012- May 2012
2011
Visiting Faculty workshop at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan. Workshop titled ‘Presence of the Past’. March 2011
2010
Conducted a workshop titled, ‘Negotiating Individual Subjectivities and other Excesses’, For Masters’ students of Painting Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda, Aug, 2010
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2009
Guest Faculty at Indian Institute of Information Technology. August-Dec 2009
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2009
Conducted workshop on the dynamics of a Pin Hole Camera, at Deepalaya School, Okhla, New Delhi, in support with Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art
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2009
Visiting faculty at Government college of Fine Arts, Trissur, University of Calicut.
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2009
Visiting Faculty at Raja Ravi Verma College of Fine Art, Mavelikara, Feb 2009
University of Kerala.
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2007
Part Time Project Fellow with Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad. March-August 2007
2024
Art Pedagogy as Practice - Navigating the Institutional and Technological Apparatus (2004-2024), In conversation with Nupur Desai, Asia Art Archive. At KNMA, Noida. Nov 2024
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2024
Decoding Artistic Practice- Seminar Roundtable Participation, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, UP. 24,25 September 2024
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2024
Presented a paper at symposium- Re-visualizing Art Education in Kerala at Kerala Lalit kala Academy, Trissur Kerala. 9-11 August 2024.
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2023
Materiality in Contemporary Art- Proximity and Distance Artists’ presentation at Abu Dhabi Art Fair. UAE. Nov 2023
2023
Art and Asylum. An online panel discussion, hosted by The Guild Art Gallery, Moderated by Premjish Achari. With Achia Anzi, Zakir Hussain, Ram Rahman, June 2023
2023
Dur Daraz- In conversation with Awadhesh Tamarakar at Shrine Empire Gallery. 21st January 2023.
2022
“Temperamental Disinclination to Convention” A conversation between Rakhi Peswani and Sarover Zaidi. 26th Nov 2022. Hosted by FICA Reading room and Asia Art Archive
2022
‘Preoccupations with DRAWING’ Presentation of works at SNU, Department of Art, Media and Performance, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. 9th Nov 2022.
2022
In Conversation New Collecting Award – with Uthra Rajagopal and Olivia Heron. Hosted by Whitworth Museum, Manchester. 30th Nov 2022
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2022
Washing (one’s) Dirty Linen in Public. Art praxis and reflections on Dirt, Linen, the Public and Globalization. Presentation in Seminar GRIDS Panel
February 2022. 2021 Book Discussion- Vasudha Thozhur: Diaries, Projects, Pedagogy 1998–2018
Online seminar hosted by Shergil Sundaram Arts Foundation and Tulika Books. 13 November, 2021.
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2021
Connecting Squares : The Handkerchiefs. Textiles in Contemporary Art.
Webinar with Uthra Rajgopal and Suman Gujral.
2017
Participated in the seminar: The Future of Art Education in India. Students’ Biennale, Kochi Muziris Biennale, 2016-17. April 2017.
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2016
Materials, Processes, Objects, Environment: Notes on Materiality and the
Physical Experience of Language. Presentation of selected works at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Bengaluru. March 6th, 2016
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2011
Presentations and display of work from the project Bodies/Subterrain, at Vrije Akademie, Den Haag, The Netherlands. October 2011.
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2008
Presented a visual essay titled Hands between the Eyes and the Mind: Some Reflections on the hand made in craft practices in the seminar Visual Culture: Mapping the terrain. Held at Hyderabad Central University under UGC DSA, Hyderabad, India. March 2008
2025
Artist in Residence with Amant Foundation, Chiusure, Siena, Italy. June to August 2025.
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2021
Artist in residence at Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
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2019
Artist in residence at Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
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2017
Artist in Residence at Aomori Centemporary Arts Centre (ACAC), Aomori
Prefecture. Japan.
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2013
Artist in residence with Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, PRC.
2013
Artist in residence with Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victoria College of Arts, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2011
Artist in Residence with Kosmopolis Den Haag, at The Hague, The Netherlands. Sep-Dec 2011
2007
Artists' residency at Sanskriti Kendra, Sanskrithi Pratishthan, New Delhi. Dec 2007-Feb 2008
2006
UNIDEE in residency, at Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy. July- October 2006.
2003
'PEERS-2003', residency invitation from KHOJ, New . Delhi. June - August 2003
2013
Fruits of Labor (A Monument to Exhaustion) at Fiber Visions Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, PRC
2011
Bodies/Subterrain (Eurydice and Sita). A collaboration with Miranda Lakerveld, (Opera Director, Amsterdam) to situate the voices of two literary characters. The project took shape as an expanding site, with multiple installations, performance and music, in three public spaces in the city of The Hague.
2010
Designed Sets and Costumes for Opera production titled 'Orfeo in India'. A collaboration between Les Autres Musictheatre, Amsterdam and Darpana, Ahmedabad. An opera adapted from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.
2008
Illustrated children's book titled Chakuprantham The Sack Cloth Man, written by Jayashree Kalathil, part of a larger project titled, Different Tales, Stories from Marginalised cultures, Anveshi Womens studies and Research Centre. Published by DC Books, ISBN: 978-81-264-2032-2
2007
Won the design competition for an entry in the project Cubes in Motion, an ongoing traveling design project collaborating local entrepreneurship and craftsmanship from Biella, at Cittadellarte, Italy.
2006
Real Memories, Imaginary Places. A project in collaboration with Liron Shua (Photographer, Barcelona) at Cittadellarte for Botto Giuseppe Textile industry, Valle Mosso, Italy.
2004
'Salient Liaison', a self curated, collaborative exhibition project with Shaila Nambiar, Textile Designer based in Hyderabad. Funded by the Department of Culture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, The French Embassy in India & Alliance Francoise de Hyderabad, India.
2020
Bent Bodies, Dead Insects and Old Leaves- Review- Incisions, Inflections Aberration By Mamata Sagar Art India - Volume 24/ Issue 2/ Quarter 3, 2020
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2019
Paper Thread Dolls by Sandhya Bordwekar Gajjar. Art India Vol.23/Issue 3/Quarter 3.
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2019
Tear Rupture Repair. Lead feature. Mario D’Souza. Art India Vol.23/Issue 3/Quarter 3.
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2019
Critics’ Picks, Art Forum, 08th January 2019. Roshan Kumar Mogali
2019
The Possibilities of a Slow Stitch- Amrita Gupta Singh – Critical Collective, February 2019.
2019
Prognosis on Modernity – Amrita Gupta Singh reviews solo exhibition- Conditions of Infirmity, Indian Art Journal. January
2019.
2018
The Uncertain Body by Parul Dave Mukherjee. Catalogue Essay for the exhibition - Conditions of Infirmity.
2017
Essay by Murakami Aya, Aomori Contemporary Arts Centre, Aomori, Japan.
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2015
Zakkir Hussain and Rakhi Peswani Review by Georgina Maddox, Studio International, 16/09/2015
2014
A Sharp Needle, Interview with Giridhar Khasnis, Indian Contemporary Art Journal, Volume 13, 2014
2013
Weaving tales with no end or beginning, Robert Nelson, The Age, Review of Ghar Ghar Ki Baat, at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
2011
Santosh Sakhinala Matters Under the Skin, A Review, published in Art etc, volume 3, no.1
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2010
An Anagram of Making Meanings, an article in the section Understanding Art, Time Out, Mumbai, January 08-21, 2010.Rakhi Peswani
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2009
Featured in Younger than Jesus : The artist directory co-published by the New Museum and Phaidon.
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2009
Janice Pariat reviews the show Intertwinings in Art India Magazine, Vol XIV, Issue III, Quarter III, 2009
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2009
Review, Of material and the ‘stitched word’ Art Concerns, Dec 2009-Jan 2010, Akanksha Rastogi
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2009
Review, Flash Art International, November-December 2009, Rajashree Biswal.
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2009
Matters of Art, e magazine. Woven Dreams, by Lina Vincent
September 15, 2009
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2009
Growing from the Middle…’Catalogue Text for Intertwinings, by Parul Dave Mukherjee, Published Cat; Vadehra Art gallery ISBN 978-93-80001-09-8
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2009
Images, Text and Mutagenesis, Catalogue Text for Intertwinings, by Avijna Bhattacharya
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2007
Matters of Art, e magazine. My work : Re-winding the modern
February 21, 2007
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2007
Indian Express, National Newspaper. Arts New Clothes by Georgina Maddox,
Sunday, January 07 , 2007
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2007
Matters of Art, e magazine. Pointing at Cognitive Experiences by Subbalakshmi Shukla
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2006
Time Out, Mumbai. Girl Talk by Deepanjana Pal. December 2006
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2005
Art India, National art News Magazine. Salient Liaison reviewed by Susie Tharu, Volume X, Issue ii, 2005
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2004
The Hindu, Hyderabad. Novel Dimension by Deepa Alexander. Dec 2004
