Akanksha, a Jaipur based artist, primarily works with Sculpture. Inspired by architecture in Jaipur she has made a series of works that act as votive sculptures. Her process involves questioning how real, divine and dream spaces are. She has a keen interest in metaphysics and the occult, vedic Geometry and ancient architecture. Akanksha aims to create a life-sized meditation cell that utilises sound played at a specific frequency, coupled with a programmed crystal, to purify the energy within for anyone who enters.

Ankur Yadav, based in Behror, Rajasthan, draws from various forms of literature and cultural practices to understand its intersections through the position of the artist as a researcher. Trained as a painter, he works with film, photography, and poetry on site-specific installations in public spaces to address enquiries at the nexus of socio-political factors and the Anthropocene. Most often, the responses question the oppressive and hierarchical nature of normalized perspectives on institutional/cultural violence and environmental extraction in his locality. A graduate of Fine Arts from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, he pursued his post-graduation at the Faculty of Visual Arts, MSU Baroda. He is a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award 2022, Inlaks Fine Art Award 2020, and The Emerging Artist Award Extended Support Platform by FICA & MMF 2020. He is a grantee of the Generator co-operative Art Production Fund 2021, and an awardee of the Pro Helvetia, Swiss Studio Residency at Rote Fabrik, Zurich, 2022.

Ayushi Patni is a visual artist and illustrator based in Mumbai, with roots in Jaipur. She is inspired by Hilma af Klint, one of the earliest abstract painters in Western Art History. An ode to Hilma, Ayushi’s work uses similar symbols but goes on to include meditations on transhumanism, cyborgs and evolving human interactions with spaces. Folk and Jain mysticism also appear in her work as strong leitmotifs. She finds the city of Jaipur alive with references to a rich cultural canvas - whether it is the remnant architecture from the times of the Rajput Kings to modern buildings like Jawahar Kala Kendra. She believes that making art is a convergence of intuition and innovation.

‘My artwork serves as a testament to the enduring allure of Jaipur and its hidden stories.’

Growing up in the world-heritage pink city of Jaipur amidst rapid urbanisation, Deepa finds profound inspiration in the captivating histories of past cultures and civilizations that have left their traces. In the midst of an intense silence often overlooked, she embarks on a creative exploration of Jaipur's visual elements, treating it as an excavated archeological site to capture its enigmatic atmosphere.

Ellinor Euler, a Berlin based artist, works at the intersection of architecture and sculpture. As someone with a wide range of interests and practices, she finds it hard to name a single artist who inspires but remains fascinated with experimental form. Visiting India for 16 years in the winters, during these journeys she has encountered what she calls atypical materials like sequins, all sorts of beads, and fabric embellishments to work with. She began incorporating these into her drawings, objects, and installations. This evolution led to her discovery of brass wire, which she now weaves into intricate sculptures that allow her to play with light in a space. She is also always looking to rediscover an experience as the creative process is never just cognitive.

Garima Tripathi is an Indian artist and Vipassana practitioner. She is currently pursuing her Masters (MFA, Class of 2024) in Fine Arts at Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, UK. Her work is centred around the practice of care. Her knowledge of Vipassana and psychoanalysis have helped her connect the making of niches with creating a pause in an otherwise tumultuous life. With a background in engineering, she moved towards making art while working with traditional pottery in Dharavi, Mumbai. Her installations can be found in institutions such as Harvard University's ceramic studio, Anneberg Kulturpark in Denmark and IIT Bombay, India.

In one sentence, Hasan’s work questions something very fundamental: Is it Authentic? A testament to honest self-expression and critical self-enquiry, Bhavnagari premieres at Jaipur Art Week 3.0. A multimedia artist based in Goa, Hasan's creative practice revolves around integrating cutting-edge technologies such as AI, robotics, and 3D printing into the artwork. Upon learning that he keeps the work The Real Time by Maarten Raas as a benchmark, it is only understandable that Hasan wants to create pieces that merge theatre, art, film and design. Underscored by the need to make technology accessible to the public, his practice has become synonymous with community projects. The desire to exhibit and make work that is accessible stemmed from his experience of the art world - where only a specific class of people get to experience art. When asked to reminisce on what aspect of Jaipur’s culture he would recommend, he speaks of sipping tea in the old city - watching the world go by. He uses mythological science fiction, his memories of Jaipur’s old city and cutting edge technology. He wants to make work that really inspires!

Indira Chowdhury is an artist currently based out of France. Her work dissects the very real problem of violence faced by people who identify as women. As a survivor, she has wondered about the healing powers of art practice. This stems from her knowledge of Hindu mythology, where the Goddess Kali is a catalyst in the cycle of creation and destruction. Her practice is a way to make people reckon with the taboos that exist around women and their bodies. She is inspired by performance and spectacle - those which make the public think. An example is the recent work by street artist JR and choreographer Damien Jalet. The journey through mediums shows her desire to work with things that are perceived as destructive to transform as healing energy. Among the things she loves to see in Jaipur are the sunrise ceremony at the Govind Dev Temple and the flower market.

Jayant Gupta is a Jaipur based artist who is currently pursuing a doctorate from Banasthali University. His work invokes an inquiry into the vulnerability of the human condition. A trained visual artist, he works primarily with watercolours and digital mediums. Each of his works is a bold and considered commentary on contemporary issues. His visual language is inspired by expressionist work of Francis Bacon as well as mystical abstraction. His process for the present body of work has been using relevant photographic images from his personal archive and digitally re-worked, manipulating it to bring the image closer to his visual language. In using digital methods/mediums like specific software for artists, there is also this automatism that helps define his practice.

Kamakshi Saxena as a dance practitioner is drawn to the idea of creating experiences through movement. She has been a student of dance and continues to explore into the realms of movement practices. She started training in ballet, jazz and contemporary dance styles at The Danceworx performing arts academy, New Delhi and performed extensively with The Danceworx Company. She then moved to New York City to study at the Alvin Ailey School, for dance techniques like Horton, Graham, Ballet and Dunham.

She also explored improvisational forms of movement at Movement Research in New York City. Back in India, she has presented her choreographic works at festivals like Contemporary Arts Week, Parallel Conversations, Prayatna Film and Dance festival and World Spanish day at Instituto Cervantes and has performed in works like Lost Wax by Preethi Athreya and Water Games by Michel Casanovas. She has taught at educational institutes like State University of Performing and Visual Arts, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Neerja Modi School and many more. She divides her time between teaching, performing, choreographing and designing performances, workshops and events at Maah Space.

Lyla is an artist, born and raised in Jaipur, in a neighbourhood of families who had migrated during the Partition of India and Pakistan. People who had been uprooted in the stroke of the midnight hour from their land without having a space to grieve for their loss. Someone who walks the talk, she practises nonviolent communication and is a huge advocate for feeding oneself in alignment with the natural function of the body. This feeds into her larger consciousness as an artist - a context where women are rarely ‘seen’. She is self taught and for the past decade has worked with ‘Jaipur Blue’ Pottery. In this deeply personal and political narrative - the body in nature - she also shows the interconnectedness of things.

Practising Nonviolent Communication (NVC), designed by Marshall Rosenberg, often called compassionate communication, she believes in the cathartic nature of making, thereby bending traditional forms to make work that is relevant.

Megha Gupta is an architect who is presently based in Michigan. She has been moving towards a more expanded art practice which incorporates her learning as a maker of spaces and her current work as a ceramic artist. She is pursuing a degree in Ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of the Arts and her work is influenced by the perception of built heritage. A true believer in the process of making, she says her studio is filled with maquettes and trials of things that will eventually become works of art. This documentation has helped her understand her own practice.

Narendra Kumar Sain is a Jaipur based printmaker, who has formally trained at Viswa Bharati University in Shantiniketan. Being from Jodhpur, his work reflects a deep understanding of people and their relationship to the divine. He has made very clear observations on how worship has changed from respect and gratitude towards natural forces to a more superficial idol worship. He has begun experimenting with non-toxic dyes and pigments in the laborious printmaking process as a means of signalling changing times.

Neha Luthra was born in India and raised in Warsaw, Poland. She obtained her BA in Art History and Management from the University of St Andrews, Scotland and an Associates Degree in Surface Pattern/Textile Design from Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Neha studied painting under the mentorship of Despina Sevasti in Athens, Greece and is currently part of The Royal Drawing School’s 2024 cohort for their Drawing Development Year. Her current art practice draws on her own photography and life experiences as subject matter. She resides between Warsaw & Jaipur.

Nidhi is a Jaipur based artist who has formal training as a painter from Rajasthan University. Her work is primarily monochromatic drawing in varied sizes. She draws inspiration from the work and discourse of Paul Klee, especially the nature of the line in a work of art. Outside of working as an artist, she has also taught Visual Art for five years.

Nishant Ghiya is a photographer currently living and working in Jaipur. His work is often trying to understand memory—whether it is looking at abandoned objects in very specific locations or the people one sees at a public space, the anchor that ties the images he makes together is memory. Trained as an engineer, he moved to photography as his work began exploring image making. To Nishant, photography is a tool that can capture shared human experiences. Especially in today’s times of ubiquitous camera lenses in phones, almost in everyone’s hands.

Shalini is an emerging artist based in Antwerp and was born in Kochi. Her practice negotiates social photography and storytelling. One of the most memorable works to her is artist Devi Seetharam’s paintings depicting the way men occupy public space in India. She also admires the work of Shilpa Gupta, another artist who has made considerable work on the aspect of borders - an urgent idea in our contemporary lives. She intuitively collects social and societal views of the beauty, rawness and rhythm of urban spaces. From an observing perspective, she narrates strength and vulnerability in a sometimes critical search in daily life and diasporic memories. Street sceneries, urban lifestyles and social injustice are forming the canvas of her inspiration. What strikes most about her work is the close observation of people and how they belong to and interact with their environment.

“...Our bodies serve as temporary vessels to spirit, and through ritual and performance invoke deity and demon alike…”

Shilo Shiv Suleman is an award-winning Indian artist whose work takes shape through a multitude of subjects. From magical realism to technology to notions of social justice, she makes unapologetically abundant work. Each of her works, whether large scale installations or wearable temples is a considered comment on human relationships with nature. Through it, all her work is rooted in where she feels connected, especially in India. Most importantly, Shilo is very aware of the distinction made between male and female bodies in public and ritual spaces. This is where the linchpin of the sacred feminine comes into play: an awareness of one’s body and its connection to nature.

Shreeya Kishanpuria Agarwal is an art enthusiast, dancer and a mother. She founded the movement art space in Jaipur called Maah Space. She manages the space with the purpose of creating an active community of artists that support and foster the growth of one another, in a safe and non-judgemental environment. Engaging with art and exploring movement/parenting with her son are her two passion projects. She is also inclined towards writing. She works with Indian Women Blog, a digital platform covering issues affecting women, as a freelance blogger/writer.

She studied and practiced contemporary dance in Bangalore for about 6 years during which time she had the privilege to meet fellow artists who have influenced/inspired/ignited the mind that speaks for her today. Her qualification is that of an Engineer in Biotechnology. But it was movement that she chose to pursue after her graduation. She worked with Nritarutya, an Indian contemporary dance company based in Bangalore for about 6 years from 2009 to 2014. During this period, she had the chance to experience varied art forms under some of the best teachers - Indian contemporary under Vishwakiran Nambi, Nritarutya, modern dance under Nakula Somana, Yoga, Feldenkrais method under Michel Casanovas, capoeira with Einstein. After moving to Jaipur she practiced kathak under Guru Rashmi Uppal. She was part of a residency at Shoonya under the mentorship of Michel Casanovas where created a solo piece titled ‘Home’. ‘Home’ was later chosen to be performed at Lshva festival 2015. At Maah, she has been curating performances, workshops, residencies and creating site specific works and installations.

Sundeep Bali is a lens-based artist & photographer from New Delhi, India. Sundeep trained to be an arts management professional and was accorded a US Fulbright Fellowship in visual arts before he transitioned to Photography. At first glance, his work appears ‘documentary’ but as one makes their journey through the images, the visual anthropologist that Sundeep has become shows through. He has been observing, researching and imaging myriad manifestations of intangible bio-cultural heritage of India. His personal projects revolve around his engagement with various nomadic communities, especially in Rajasthan. What makes his work special is the way he goes back to the community with support where they might need it.

Tinkal is an artist residing in Jaipur. She recently graduated with a degree in painting and works with multiple mediums. Houses or buildings and birds feature regularly, almost like a leitmotif, in all her works. This is from observations from her childhood home, of nearby constructions and from an aerial point of view. She is also very aware of how materials play a role in the appearance of a finished artwork. The houses are the place where she belongs, and birds are a symbol for the spirit she aspires to be. In addition to awareness of mediums, she takes care to use metaphors in her work. Especially the egg that symbolises beginnings. Her current mediums of interest are relief murals and woodcut prints.

Vipin Jangir is a Jaipur based photographer and self-taught filmmaker mainly interested in documenting life around him. Following formal training in Fine Arts, he has been experimenting with light and printing mediums. His experiments with light have led him to his current body of work that offers an insight into his practice. Growing up in a joint family, the images that stay with him are of open verandas, light- filled rooms and elements of nature. Realness and tranquillity are recurring motifs in his work.

Wolf, an art practice from Jaipur who work with scrap, discards and found objects to create new worlds which you are invited to share, get enchanted by and use the experience to make much needed change. They source their materials from anywhere between an industrial factory,  a storehouse and the local kabadi bazaar, to narrate stories inspired by gardens and forests. They often collaborate with a range of people from miniature painters and generational craftspeople, to welders and carpenters. Their favorites, nonetheless, are the gardeners from their own farm who have worked on every garden or forest they have made over the past decade.

Ritu and Surya Singh are self taught artists heading the Wolf pack. They dream up stories and bring together the hands that make intricate and large installations, all coming together to tell a story based on social issues they want to highlight. Their work is a true amalgamation of art and conscience.

Over the past decade, their work has found space in the form of two public art installations in Jaipur city. They have curated and created various ephemeral experiential shows across the country and have exhibited as a collateral project during Kochi Muziris Biennale 2018 and India Art Architecture Design Biennale at Red Fort in 2023. There have been commissioned by the Mahindra Museum of Living History and other private collectors.