CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1984 in Patna, India
2018 Master’s Degree, Visual Culture and Contemporary Art, Aalto University, Helsinki
2009 Diploma, Visual Communication Design, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru
2007 Independent Study Program, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
2005 Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting, Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Monumentless Moments: the Utopia of Figureless Plinths, MAA-tila Project Space, Helsinki
2016 No one at the ceremony remembers to mention the artist, Third Space, Helsinki
2011 Love Charades, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2010 Song of the Sirens, Grey Noise, Lahore
2008 Baaji Naama, Nairang Art Gallery, Lahore
2008 Lahori Bachchey, Alliance Francoise, Lahore
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 are you my sister?, Lovebirds, Mumbai
2022 Fragmented Fronts, curated by Elham Rahmati, Energiasalo, Museum of Technology, Helsinki, FI
2022 Can You Hear Me?, curated by Phalguni Guliani, Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, US
2021 Aikakoneita & Utopioita (Time Machines and Utopia), curated by Hanna Johansson,
Ainola Museum, Visavuori Museum, and Tarvaspää Museum, FI
2021 At Some Point We All Have To Dance, curated by Irena Borić and Maja Hodošče,
Likovni Salon Gallery, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, SI
2021 In the Light of, curated by Gitanjali Dang, Gallery Ark, Baroda and Sakshi Art Gallery,
Mumbai, IN 2020 ‘2084’, curated by Anne Klontz, Catalyst Ry, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, FI
2020 Meadow, curated by Taru Elfving, Onoma Summer Exhibition, Fiskars, FI
2019 Slow Rush, curated by inaway: Ramina Habobollah, Nayab Ikram for FemfArt,
Titanik-Galleria, Turku, Finland
2019 80 Days, curated by Jani Leinonen, Artsi (Vantaa Art Museum), Vantaa
2019 In the Land of Downside Up, curated by Nancy Adajania, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2018 Experimental Event VI: La torre de Babel, Valimo Hall of Palmgren Conservatory, Pori
2018 Caressing History, curated by Adwait Singh, Shrine Empire Gallery, Delhi
2018 River in an Ocean, curated by Abdullah Qureshi and Natasha Malik, Lahore
2017 I am our common pronoun, curated by Helga Christofferson, Chart Art Fair, Copenhagen
2017 DWELLING, curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2017 IS/NOT: Sculpture for the Post-Truth Era, Aalto University Learning Centre, Helsinki
2016 Where does poetry nest?, curated by Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Galleria Emil, Tampere
2015 BODY as SITE, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2013 Touched by Bhupen, curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2009 Long Gone and Living Now, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2009 Oh My God! I Can Buy Art, curated by Mehreen Murtaza and Umer Butt, Grey Noise, Lahore
BOOKS
2020 Helsinki in November
2020 'Monumentless Moments: the Utopia of Figureless Plinths', seven poetry books and a reader
2019 'November Salads', one poem book
2019 'September in Helsinki', one poem book
2019 'Naap', book of drawings, self-published
2018 'GUNPOWDER', book of drawings, self-published
2018 'Purdah', book of drawings, self-published
2014 'Bhoora', photobook published by STUDIOVAAK
2009 'EXPLOSIVES', self-published book of drawings
2008 'Guftagu: gutarrrgoon', self-published illustrated book of conversations
GRANTS
2022 Artist Grant from the Kone Foundation, Finland
2021 Travel Grant from the Nordic Culture Point, Finland
2020 The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (TAIKE)
2017 Kone Foundation, Helsinki, Finland
Public Collection
Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Finland
Aalto University Art Collection, Finland