Rakhi Peswani

Rakhi’s art practice explores various discursive and material aspects of crafts and the nuanced associations of crafts as languages, especially with an emphasis on the hand-made. She is interested in the affective possibilities of materiality and labour as well as the contexts or locations these create in contemporary image making. She has recently been examining the environmental and pedagogical ties associated with craft-based practices.

Rakhi attained Master’s degree in Ceramic Sculpture, 2003 and Bachelor’s degree in Painting, 2000 from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara

She has held solo exhibitions of her works, Incisions Inflections Aberrations, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, 2020; Incisions Inflections Aberrations curated by Anja Ellenberg at Westwerk, Hamburg 2019, Conditions of Infirmity, The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug,2018, In Continuum, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2015; Anatomy of Silence, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai 2013; Matters Under the Skin, Asia One, Hong Kong International Art Fair, presented by The Guild Art Gallery, 2011; Interwinings, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2009; Sonnet for Silent Machines at Jehangir Nicholson Gallery by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2007; Recent Works, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Mumbai, 2006; New Delhi.

She has held arts workshops in various art colleges, participated in several academic conferences in India. Her works have been widely shown in many curated exhibitions in museums and biennales as in art galleries in India and abroad. She has taught at Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 2004 – 2012; Srishti School of Arts and Design, Bangalore, 2012-14 and School of Culture and Creative Expression at Ambedkar University, Delhi, 2016-2017.

Currently, she is Associate Professor at the Visual Arts Department, Ashoka University, Sonipat.