Nirali Lal

Nirali Vijay Lal is a visual artist, writer, and poet, Her practice moves fluidly between painting, poetry, and reflective writing, often exploring quiet narratives, memory, materiality, and subtle shifts in everyday experience. She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts, specialising in Art Criticism, from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, and a Bachelor’s degree in Painting from Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore. Over the past two decades, she has exhibited widely across India and internationally, while also contributing critical writing and poetry that emerge from her artistic process.

Her recent exhibitions include Anantsamagam (Alekh Foundation, Travancore Palace, New Delhi, 2026 - Sameksha Art Gallery), a group exhibition bringing together diverse contemporary practices. In 2025, she participated in As Tranquil as Can Be: An Invitation to Silence by Raqs Media Collective, presented as part of Scores in Transit: Resonance of the Plural, curated by Vidya Shivadas at the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa. The same year, she was part of An Invisible Bind, a five-artist group exhibition curated by Yamini Talker at Sameksha Art Gallery, New Delhi, developed through a residency-based collaboration.

She also presented her second solo exhibition Feed Me Colour, curated by Bhooma Padmanabhan at Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, in 2025. Other recent group exhibitions include Curated Collections (Vadodara, 2022), The Baroda March (Rukshaan Art, New Delhi, 2022; Mumbai, 2021), Towards White (Rukshaan Art, Mumbai, 2021–22), The Nest (Anant Art, New Delhi, 2020), and the Space Alumni Show at Space Studio, Vadodara (2020). Her earlier exhibitions include Face to Face (Hutheesing Visual Art Centre, Ahmedabad, 2018), Envisage (Kanoria Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, 2017), Basic Instinct (Priyashri Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2016), Fragments of Camouflage (Hoboken, New York, 2015), and exhibitions at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, and international exhibitions in Paris and Atlanta.

In addition to her visual practice, Nirali has written on contemporary art for publications including Art India, Inside Outside, Deccan Herald, and more including exhibition catalogues, and artist interviews. Her poetry and writing often emerge alongside her paintings — as parallel reflections that extend the visual language into words. Through paintings, poetry, and writing, her work invites slow looking, quiet contemplation, and an engagement with layered and subtle experiences.

Nirali Lal lives and works in Bengaluru.