Exhibitions
Solo exhibition, ‘ पौर्णिमा : Gazing Into The Full Moon Night’, multimedia-immersive installation, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Solo exhibition, ‘चांदोबा : A Trip Into The Moon’, multimedia-immersive installation, Second Shift Gallery Space, St.Paul, MN
Solo exhibition titled ‘In The Presence Of Longing’ at Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
Group exhibition titled ‘Put It In The Chat’ at Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Group exhibition of emerging artists, Unfurled, Artistry, Bloomington Center For The Arts, Bloomington, MN
Group exhibition titled Mending, a mobile art exhibit and conversation of a world in crisis, curator William G. Franklin, ArtReach St. Croix Mobile Art Gallery, MN
Solo exhibition (Front Gallery) titled Perceiving Places: Through Our Tenderness at Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Solo exhibition titled Winter: Finding Meaning in a White Landscape, MCAD Library, MN
Solo exhibition titled Terrarium People: And Their Mundane Reflections, MCAD Suitcase Gallery, MN
Multimedia
Projection ‘Ripples of the Arabian Sea’, Twin Cities Fashion Week, American Swedish Institute, MN
Film Screening ‘Personification Of The Moon’, MDW Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois
Film Screening ‘Personification Of The Moon’, 5 Minute Film Festival, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN
Visual-Sound-Storytelling Collaboration, MNiatures cohort of 2020-21, Minnesota Opera, MN
Original Audio-Visual Story, ’There’s A Chappal In The Door’, Virtual Family Day: Foot In The Door, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Original Audio-Visual Story titled ‘Books Are Alive’, Virtual Family Day: Open Book Open Hearts, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Teaching
Adjunct Faculty, Foundation Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Institutional Facilitator (Contract), Project Success, MN (Ongoing)
Instructor of Record, Continuing Education, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Summer Course: Making Comics with Roshan Ganu)
Instructor of Record, Continuing Education, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (The Transition To Fall : An Observational Comic)
Instructor of Record, Continuing Education, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Comic Book Creation : Documenting Quarantine And The Uprising Through Personal Narratives)
Teaching Assistant, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Courses taught: Relief Printing Making and Monotype)
Teaching Assistant, Liberal Arts Department, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Courses taught: Asian Art History with India in focus)
Full Time Faculty, Sunshine Worldwide School, Goa-India (Course taught: French as a foreign language) (Middle School)
Instructor of Record, Collège Charles Péguy, Versailles-France (courses taught: English as a foreign language and Indian culture)
Awards/Grants
Recipient, Jerome Foundation Fellowship For Early Career Artists 2022-23
Artist-In-Residence ’22, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Metro Regional Arts Council (MRAC), Arts Impact for Groups Recipient 2022-23
Metro Regional Arts Council (MRAC), Next Step Fund Recipient 2021-22
Artist-In-Residence 2021-22, Second Shift Studio Space, St.Paul, MN
MNiatures- Tiny Operas, Big Ideas Grant, $5000, juried project by Minnesota Opera (Collaboration)
Artists Respond: Combating Social Isolation Grant, $500, a project of Springboard for the Arts (Collaboration)
Solo Exhibition Grant, $500, juried by Esther Callahan
Rob Fischer Residency, Documenting Winter, Park Rapids, MN
Education
MFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2020)
MA, French, University of Pune, India (2016)
BA, Journalism and Communication, Manipal University, India (2010)
Languages
Marathi, English, French, Konkani, Hindi, basic Portuguese
Public Projects
Co-Founder, ‘Aapli Library: A Community Space for Zines and Conversation’ (Grantee of Arts Impact for Groups by MRAC and Incubated with Springboard for the Arts)
Founder, ‘The Banyan Tree Project’