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MAHA MOHAN

Maha Mohan is an interdisciplinary artist from Madurai, India, currently based in the United States. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (2025) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai (2018).

Working across ceramic sculpture, drawing, and installation, her practice reflects on emotional vulnerability, intergenerational memory, and soft inheritances. Drawing deeply from lived experience, Maha’s work explores how the personal is political in layered ways, often echoing within broader social and cultural frameworks. Maha’s work has been exhibited at the RISD Museum, SK Gallery in New York City, and the Chettinad Heritage and Culture Festival in Madurai. Recent exhibitions include the RISD Graduate Thesis Show (2025), The Big Fat South Asian Show (2025), Symbio/Split (2024), and Trial by Fire: RISD Ceramics MFA Summer Show (2024).

She is a recipient of the T’SEDA Pathfinder Award in Arts and Crafts (2025) and a RISD Fellowship (2023–2025). Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest India and RISD News.

Tethered Secrets

Ceramic and glass
2024

Once Human

Ceramic and glass
2024

Veiled Ruin

Ceramic and glass
2024

MAITHILI CHATURVEDI

Maithili Chaturvedi (b. 2003, Mumbai, India) is a painter whose practice engages with worship of the Woman on screen. She re-authors the Hindi-language cinema icons into intimate pseudo-self-portraits, while exploring the politics of desire, performance, and the feminine gaze with both reverence and resistance. The Women become conduits for reflections on beauty, agency, and self-mythology, as Chaturvedi uses the material of velvet to create sensorial tensions of colour and light that regard perfection, safety, spectacle, touch, and legacy of the cinematic Woman.

Chaturvedi received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2025 and she was the recepient of the Florence Leif Award. Her recent exhibitions include LOOK at Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2025); No, Painting Baby at Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI (2025); The Big Fat South Asian Show, which she also curated, at the RISD Museum (2025);

Zeenie Baby

Oil on Velvet
2025

Mairan

Oil on velvet
2025

Aankhon

Oil on velvet
2025

SHAMIRA DHARAP

Shamira Dharap (b. 1998) is a painter from Pune, india. Her work is centered on the landscapes and cityscapes she inhabits. She uses photography, video, painting, and drawing as reflective tools to unravel her relationship with her urban surroundings. Much of her documentation of these spaces is done from a moving vehicle, which destabilizes the acts of looking and observation. She is interested in exploring the effect of these interruptions on the process of meaning-making. Her current work is based on photos and videos taken in the streets of her hometown, examining the binaries of distance and memory, attachment and detachment, movement and stillness, and the abandoned and the renewed.
Shamira has a BFA in Painting (2021) from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara. She has worked with schools and independent studios as an art facilitator and curriculum designer for over seven years and hopes to continue this engagement alongside her studio practice. She recently completed an MFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, for which she received the Kirloskar Scholarship (2023) and the RISD Fellowship (2023).

Landmarks I

Collage
2025

Landmarks II

Photograph
2025

Landmarks III

Collage
2025

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