Education
2006-2009 MFA in Experimental Animation and Filmmaking, California Institute of the Arts
2003- 2004 BFA in Painting, Elam School of Arts, Auckland University, New Zealand
2000- 2003 BFA in Painting, MSU Fine Arts, Baroda, India
Exhibitions & Screenings :
2023
Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention in AI and Live Art
Workshop @ SoundS, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Speaker at Bath Spa University, UK
Paradigm to Paradigm, Into the Biomic Time; Solo @ Felix Frachon Gallery, Brussels
Live Performance: Paradigm to Paradigm, Into the Biomic Time @ Maerz Music Festival, Berlin
Paradigm to Paradigm, Into the Biomic Time; Solo @ Daad Gallerie, Berlin
Speaker @ Universität der Künste, Berlin
Speaker at Research Centre at Freie Universität Berlin
Artist talk at Akademie der Künste
2022
Speaker @Time to Listen: Sustainability in Contemporary Music @Akedemie der Kunst, Berlin
Artist Talk @Daad Gallerie, Water Bodies with Nandita Kuamr, Patricia Belli, Paula Gaitan, Berlin
Speaker @ Soundings – Assemblies of Listenings and Voices Across the Souths, Symposium @Akedemie der Kunst, Berlin
Fellow 2022-2023: The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program/ Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD
Mardin Biennial 5.0: The Promise of Grass/ Cimenin Vaadi , curated by Adwait Singh
NFT drops + Exhibition ‘Techné Disruptors: Global South NFT Collection ’, Indian Art Fair, Conceived by Engendered, curated by Myna Mukherjee
2021
un{stacked} : articulations of the algorithmic condition, Khoj, New Delhi
Digital Futures Grant @ Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi
Awesome without Borders Grant, The Harnisch Foundation, New York
Board of Trustees, Television for the Environment (t/ve); UK-registered charity
The Listening Biennial, Berlin
Group Show: Retelling @ Sunapranta; Goa Open Catalyst Grant + Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan
Work presented: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting
Work Presented: LASER Talks at Tempe; ASU Leonardo Imagination Fellows/hip
2020
UNESCO Futures Literacy Summit, Hosted by ASU-Leonardo Imagination Fellows
Luxembourg Art Week | Felix Frachon Gallery
ASU-Leonardo Imagination Fellowship: a virtual program to explore experimental art-science innovation practices
Ars Electronica.ART Global Gallery
Anniversary Exhibition: Chapter 4 | Felix Frachon Gallery; Brussels
Goa Open Arts: The Catalyst New Media Grant in collaboration with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
Webinar: A Tale of Monsoons curated by Premjish Achari in association with Kala Chaupal Trust
Online Exhibition: “ Collab” curated by Jesal Thacker, Sakshi Gallery
Online Exhibition: El Balcón curated by Ivan Buenader | Rubin Art Center for the Visual Arts | University of Texas El Paso
Tennyson Street moving image art project curated by Reuben David; New Zealand
Goa open Arts
2019
Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human, curated by Kathryn Weir, Pompidou, Paris
Making Space: Celebrating 10 Years Of Space118 Residency, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2018
Group Show: Delirium/Equilibrium, curated by Roobina Karode | KNMA Museum, Delhi
Experimental animation and film workshop, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
Brussels Art Fair
Received Indian Foundation of Arts Grant; Bangalore
2017
Upcoming: Pataka Museum (Aug 27th – Nov 12th), New Zealand
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma; Helsinki (till 2018)
Group Show: Felix Frachon Gallery-“Season one”, Brussels
Screening of Birth of Brainfly and Tentacles of Dimensions; HH Art Spaces, Goa
2016
Online Exhibition and commission: Unfold #4 curated by Alessandro Ludovico and Sara Giannini,
Entropies curated by Vladimir Demoule et Marie Koch, Maison populaire, Montreuil, France
Art Dubai, Lakeeren Gallery
Solo show: Felix Frachon Gallery “Quintessential Machine”; Brussels
Indian Art Fair:126.22hz, Lakeeren Gallery, Delhi
2015
Exo-Evolution curated by Peter Weibel, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art (upcoming)
Tales & Fables from India & Japan, NID | Japan Foundation, IN | Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Japan
Selected as a finalist for 24th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2015, New Zealand
Speaker: Public2015, “Public Art in Action”; Perth
Form Public Art Initiative curated by Sharmila Wood, Perth
Group Show: “One and one make eleven, Kunsthaus Langenthal” curated by Eveline Suter, Switzerland
Group Show: “Constructs Constructions” by Roobina Karode, KNMA Museum, Delhi
Group Show: “Working Space: Around Memory and Perception” curated by Roobina Karode, KNMA Museum, Delhi
Special Projects curated by Girish Shahane, Indian Art Fair, Delhi
Group Show: History is, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai
2014
Pataka Art Museum: Traveling show of the Wallace Art Award
Selected as a finalist for 23rd Annual Wallace Art Awards 2014, New Zealand
Nominated for NTAA(New Technology Art Award), exhibition Biennial Update_5, Belgium
Jeu du Paume: “Erreur d’impression” curated by Alessandro Ludovico; Paris, France
Solo Exhibition: LET THE BRAINFLY, Gallery Lakeereen, Mumbai
Dhaka Art Summit: “Citizens of Time” curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki; Delhi,India
Indian Art Fair:hEliOpHiLic obSeRVatOry; Lakeeren Gallery, Delhi
Indian Art Fair:Public Sound Art Project-”Listen Up!”curated by Diana Betancourt and Tim Goosens; Delhi
2013
International Symposium of Electronic Art( ISEA presesented by ANANT); Sydney,Australia
Auckland Art Fair, Whitespace Contemporary Art Gallery; Auckland, NZ
India Design Forum: OTLO curated by architect Ashiesh Shah and Tejas Mangeshkar; Mumbai, India
Indian Art Fair: Polymorphic HumanScape, Lakeeren Gallery; Delhi,India
Group Show: Palette Art Gallery:Spell of Spill Utopia of Ecology, Curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki;Delhi,India
2012
Group Show: Cardinal Meridians: New Geometries of the Infinite, Gallery Lakeereen, Mumbai, India
Group Show: Mumbai Gallery Weekend : Bandra Taj Lands End, Mumbai, India
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Anthology Film Archives, New York
Community Art Project(Dharavi Slums)- GHAR PE:Concept development and Installation, Mumbai, India
Indian Art Fair: ELEMENT: EARTH, Latitude 28, Delhi, India
Indian Art Fair: Tentacles of Dimension, video lounge, Delhi, India
2011
Enchanted Forest Installation: Launch of HERMES, Hermes Gallery, Mumbai, India
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Theatron Open Air Festival, Munich, Germany
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, CologneOFF, Germany
Screening: Tentacles of Dimension, Anthology Film Archives, New York
ELA Installation: Bombay Electric, Mumbai, India
Screening: Birth of Brainfly ,The Cutting Room, Nottingham Playhouse, U.K
Indian Art Fair: Screening Birth of BrainFly, Video Lounge, Delhi, India
Group Show-The PILL curated by Avni Doshi, Latitude 28, Delhi, India
2010
Solo Exhibition: LET THE BRAINFLY, Latitude 28, Delhi, India
Art Tiger Project, Delhi, India
Screening: Façade Video Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Screening: Tentacles of Dimension, Sydney Underground Festival, Australia
Screening: 42nd New Zealand International Film Festival, New Zealand
Group Show: Living Room curated by Pontus Kyander, NZ (video projections in CBD (Auckland city)
Group Show: Tentacles of Dimension, Innviertler Künstlergilde, Musicschule, Reid, Austria
Screening: Tentacles of Dimension, Tricky Women Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
Screening: Tentacles of Dimension, Linoleum Film Festival, Russia
Screening: Tentacles of Dimension, RedCat, LA
Screening: Techniques of the Observer, Mocha ArtHouse & Bombay Elektrik Project, India
2009
Curation: Film experimental film section, Festival SPIEL09; Austria
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, International Film Festival Hannover, Germany
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Stuttgart Animation Film Festival, Germany
2008
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Tricky Women Film Festival, Austria
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Cinema Mundo – II Internacional Film festival, Brazil
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Rome Film Festival, Italy
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, 7th Brisbane International Animation Festival, Australia
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Australia
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, 40th New Zealand International Film Festival
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences,LA
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Natarani, Ahemdabad, India
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, Machine Project, Image & Sound from the South Asian Diaspora, LA
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, Delhi, India
Screening: Birth of Brainfly, LACMA conjoint with Salvador Dali Show, L