CV
Resume(PDF)
Education
MFA in Art and Technology, 2007- 2009, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
BFA in Painting, 2001- 2005, MSU Fine Arts, Baroda, India
Exhibitions & Screenings
2012
(Upcoming) Galerie Sophie Lanoe, Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebenon
Visual Art in Movement, Visionaria20 International Film Festival, Sienna, Italy
DOME2012: Video Art in the Digital Dome, IAIA, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Synchrony: Contemporary Video, Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
2011
December Exhibition, Project Jan- Path, New Delhi, India (Screening)
Pattern-Ship, Parramatta Artist Studios, Parramatta NSW Australia (Oct 31st- Dec 16th)
TIME, The LAB, San Francisco, (Oct 7th – Oct 29th)
Bay Area Currents 2011, ProArts Gallery, Oakland (July 19 – Sept 2)
16th Annual Juried Exhibition, SOHO2O Gallery Chelsea, New York (July 26- Aug 20)
Video Installation, Currents 2011, The 2nd Annual Santa Fe International Media Festival, Santa Fe (June 10-19)
No Dialogue, ArtPadSF, San Francisco (Screening)
Video Installation, The Athens Video Art Festival 2011, Athens, Greece
Taste 2011, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco
Competitive Shorts Program, The Disposable Film Festival, San Francisco (Screening)
Say Something, Gallery E6, San Francisco (Screening)
Emerging Video Artists, Big Screen Project, New York (Screening)
2010
Espacio Enter: art tech media, Canary Island, Spain (Screening)
The International Streaming Festival, The Hague, Netherlands (Screening)
Art Killed The Video Star@Riff Raff, Grosenberg, Tel-Aviv, Isreal (Screening)
7th Busan International Video Festival, Space Bandee, Busan, South Korea.
Introductions 2010, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco
VideoZone @MUV music and digital arts festival, Florence, Italy (Screening)
2009
13th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA,
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Espacio Enter: art tech media, Canary Island, Spain (Screening)
Not Still Art Festival, Micro Museum, Brooklyn, New York. (Screening)
Celeste Prize Finalists Exhibition at the Alte AEG Fabrik, Berlin, Germany.
Without Borders Festival: Conjunction, Lord Hall Gallery,
University of Maine, Orono.
MFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago
New Works, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago
2008
Department Store, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago
Digital Fringe Festival, Melbourne, Australia. (Screening)
Filament, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India.
2006
ABS Gallery, Baroda, India.
Kanoria Center for Arts, Ahmedabad, India.
Center for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India. (Screening)
2005
BFA Show, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda, India.
Performance
2012
(Upcoming) Spinning Four, Night Lights, SOMArts, San Francisco
(Upcoming) Spinning Four, Currents 2012: The 2nd Annual International New Media Festival, Santa Fe
(Upcoming) Tunneling (with Nadav Assor), Soundwave Biennial, The Lab Gallery, San Francisco.
2011
Spin @ Project Jan-Path, New Delhi
FOLD {Live} Series 4 of public performances, Parramatta, Australia, Nov
FOLD {Live} Series 4 of public performances, San Francisco, Sept-Oct
FOLD {Live}, The LAB, San Francisco
Spin@ ProArts Gallery, Oakland
Spin@ HiveMinds Gallery, Oakland
Spin @ The Center for Contemporary Arts, Currents 2011, The 2nd Annual Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Santa Fe
FOLD {Live}, Root Division, San Francisco
2010
Rain Grain Song, Twin Space Continuum, San Francisco
Lullaby Daze, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco
Lullaby Daze, 100 Performances for the Hole, SOMArts, San Francisco
Spin, CCRMA Winter Concert 2010, Stanford, California
Tunneling, Netmage 10 International Live Media Festival, Bologna, Italy
Collaborator: Nadav Assor
2008
Tunneling, New Blood II, Links Hall, Chicago.
Collaborator: Nadav Assor.
Lullaby daze, Waveforms, SAIC, Chicago.
2007
Aging Fan, Waveforms, SAIC, Chicago
2006
Nomonosound, PEERS Student Residency Program, Khoj International Artists
Association, New Delhi, India.
Awards and Honors
Djerassi Resident Artist Award, Woodside/ California, USA
Winner in Experimental Film category @ the Disposable Film Festival 2011, San Francisco
Winner of Celeste Prize 2009. Italy
Winner of Art vs. Design, Artists Wanted, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
International Graduate Student Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Peers Students Residency, Khoj International Artist Association, New Delhi, 2006
Nasreen Mohammad Award, M. S. University, Baroda, India. 2005, Best final year display.
Best Choreographer, Vogue, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. 2002
Affiliation/ Workshops
Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA, 2012
Root Division Resident Artist, 2011
Goat Island Performance Workshop, SAIC, Chicago, IL. Summer 2008
Sandarbh Artist Workshop, Rajasthan, India. Collaborative workshop to spread awareness
about contemporary art and the environment. 2007
Kanoria Art Center, Ahmedabad, India. Jan-Aug 2006
Artist camp, Pachmarhi, India. 2005
Text and Reviews
FOLD {Live}, Review by Christopher Reiger, Stretcher.org
The Performant: The mundane sublime Review by Nicole Gluckstern, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Sept 2011
Inside Out: FOLD {Live} Elevates the Mundane Review by Christian L. Frock, KQED Arts, Oct 2011
“Cine Desechable El Arte De Lo Efimero” Review by Helena Celdran, Calle20 Magazine (Page 28-31), July-Aug 2011
“Currents 2011”, Review by Iris Mclister, THE Magazine, July Issue, 2011
“Tools Meet Imagination” Review by Malin Wilson Powell, ABQ Journal, June 17th 2011
“21st Century Artist” Review by Lily Alexander, White Wall Magazine, The Performance Issue, Summer 2010
” The 7th Busan International Video Festival” Catalogue, Seon – youn Kim, Oct 2010
“Netmage 10″ Catalogue, Daniele Gasparinetti, Jan 2010
“Celeste Prize” Catalogue, Jury Review Text by Mark Gisbourne, Sept 2009
“Videomedeja” Museum of contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Catalogue, Ivana Sremčević, Dec 2009
“Filament” Vadehra Art Gallery, Exhibition Review, Time Out Delhi, 2008
“Filament: 6 years of the peers residency” Catalogue, Latika Gupta and Pooja Sood, 2008
“Peers: The Young Artist Residency”, Review, Bhooma Padmanabhan, Arts Connect: The IFA Chronicle, Volume 1 Jul-Dec 2007
“Final Year display at MSU Fine Arts” Exhibition Review, Sandhya Bordewekar for Art India Magazine, 2005TeachingFall 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graduate Seminar in Art and Biotechnology,
SAIC, Chicago. Instructor: Eduardo Kac
Fall 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graduate Studio: Experimental Media, SAIC,
Chicago. Instructor: Matthew Nelson
Spring 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Holography,SAIC, Chicago.
Instructor: John Bannon
Spring 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Core Studio, SAIC, Chicago.
Instructors: John Henley, Steven Lacy, Dave Richards
Fall 2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Core Studio, SAIC, Chicago.
Instructor: Mark Jeffrey
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