b. 1996, Mumbai, India

EDUCATION

2019 / Bachelor of Textiles at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

2014 / Liberal Arts at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 / ‘when a name is laid to rest: archives of future present past’ / AKINCI, Amsterdam

2022 / ‘how many songs from a single note?’ / TARQ, Mumbai

2019 / ‘Sharam o Haya’ / Ame Nue, Hamburg

2018 / ‘Bashaoor’, Clark House / Mumbai

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 / ‘Outside the soup’ / W139, Amsterdam

2024 / Public program for Motormond gallery, Spirit of dissent by other indias in collaboration with Rah Naqvi

2024 / ‘Siblings of the soil’ / Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam

2023 / ‘Non native native Art fair’ / Framer Framed, Amsterdam

2023 / ‘In the inner bark of trees’ / Archive Sites, Savvy

2023 / Contemporary Migros museum, Season Opening performance titled ‘Soft touch Men’ / Zurich

2022 / ‘Terra Incognita’ / AKINCI Gallery, Amsterdam

2022 / ‘Testimonies of othering and their impossibly possible futures’ / Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen

2022 / Fashion for good museum, performance for Knowing cotton otherwise / Amsterdam

2021 / ‘Missing Homes’ / Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn

2021 / ‘That those beings be not being’ / W139, Amsterdam

2021 / ‘Offspring’, Always Hallways / De Ateliers, Amsterdam

2021 / Art Rotterdam / ‘How does one say Queen in Islam’ / AKINCI / Rotterdam

2020 / ‘Hunger: For Life, Love, Human Contact, Touch, Freedom’ / AKINCI, Amsterdam

2020 / ‘A beast, a god, a line’, curated by Para Site Director, Cosmin Costinas at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum / Chiang Mai, TH ; (2020/21) / Kunsthall Trondheim, NO /(2019); Museum of Modern Art / Warsaw, PL (2018); Para Site, Hong Kong (2018).

2020 / ‘Inherited Memory’, TARQ / Mumbai (online exhibition)

2020 / ‘Viral self-portraits’, Moderna galerija / Ljubljana (online exhibition)

2019 / ‘Heroines Now’ / AKINCI, Amsterdam

2018 / ‘सावधान: The Regimes of Truth’, curated by Shaunak Mahbubani / Apexart NY, New Delhi

2018 / ‘Micro subversions Playbook’, curated by Avni Sethi and Venkataraman Divakar / Conflictorium, Ahmedabad

2018 / ‘The Exhaustion project’, curated by Abhijan Toto, Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin

LECTURES, TALKS & WORKSHOPS

2018, Gaysi Zine festival, Talk: Politics of female body in art,

2021, Liverpool John Moores University, Guest speaker, LGBT+ History Month programme

2021, Pakhuis de Zwijger - Equity x Design: Intentional Intersectionality,

2022, Williams College, Massachusetts, Lectures on Quilting and Resistance,

2022, Artist Talk, Mobile Library Nepal, supported by Asia Art Archive, March 28th

2022, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Queer City - Drag Show, Performance and panel discussion, 22nd April

2022, Maxim Gorki Theatre, A—LIGNING THE UN—CERTAIN which revolves around the concept of alignment in the context of political activism in relation to their curatorial series Allies for the Uncertain Futures. Curated by Shaunak Mahbubani with Aqui Thami, Rah Naqvi and Vidisha-Fadesha, Vishal Kumaraswamy

2022, Framer Framed, LIMBO, / Engaged scholarship and Queer exilic narratives / Workshop: Defiance Dolls

2024, W139, Outside The Soup / Workshop conducted by participating artist Rah Naqvi and Esraa Elfelky for the students of IMC Weekendschool - Creating a drawing scroll of their imaginations.

2024, IBB, Teaching Residency & Performance with students at KUEBA 60.

AWARDS

2024
Catalyst grant, Goa Open Arts

2023
Stichting Stokroos Grant

2022
Artist Start Grant, Mondriaan Fonds

2021
Amsterdam Funds for the Arts, Queer Choir

Mama cash, Spark fund for Queer Choir

Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, Rite of passage Queer Twenty

2019
Indian National Bar Association: ‘The Phenomenal she’

2018
NID Ford Foundation Grant

ART FAIR

2023
Art Mumbai, Mumbai

2021
Art Rotterdam, AKINCI Gallery, Amsterdam

RESIDENCIES AND FESTIVALS

2024

IBB Curaçao, Residency supported by Mondrian funds

Himalayan Short film festival London, Dante Katha

Goa Open Arts, ‘trespassers will be prosecuted’

2023

Kochi Biennale, ‘Soft touch Men’, HH Art space performance

Residency program, ‘Where do we stand now’ PerForm, Open Academy, T:>Works, Singapore

2022

Desire as resistance: ‘How does one say queen in Islam’ screening, REDCAT, LA, April 4th, Virtual presentation of Desire as Resistance: Films by Priya Sen, Sarah Naqvi, and Suneil Sanzgiri

HH Art space x Kochi Biennale, ‘where do we stand now’, Kochi

Dharamshala International film festival, Dante Katha

2021

Gessnerallee Zürich 2021, Index of Dystopia, We are here

2019-2021

De Ateliers, Amsterdam

2018

Forecast Forum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

BIENNALE

2024

Textile Biënnale, ‘Images of Power’, ‘democracy is a relic of an imagined society’

2023

Kathmandu Triennale 2077, Dante Katha

2020

‘Escape Routes’, Bangkok Biennale, Thailand

COLLECTIONS

2022

‘Shrine of Memories’, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi

2021

‘How does one say queen in Islam’, Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation

2019

Kadist, NY, SF Collection

2018

Private collection, Darpana Foundation, Mallika Sarabhai