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  • Illuminated Sections: STUDY 6.1, Spine
  • Frayed and Floating / Unbound and Untethered
  • Cross sections, Mammary Nets / Unbound and Untethered
  • Uterine Swims / Unbound and Untethered
  • Mammary Nets / Unbound and Untethered
  • Cross sections, Uterine Swims 1.2 / Unbound and Untethered
  • Cross sections, Uterine Swims 1.1 / Unbound and Untethered
  • Ovarian beds 1.2 / Unbound and Untethered
  • Ovarian beds 1.1 / Unbound and Untethered

EDUCATION
2015-2018
Undergraduate Degree in Art and Design, with a specialisaPon in Contemporary Art PracPce, Srish- Ins-tute of Art,
Design and Technology, Bangalore
2011-2013
Undergraduate in Liberal Arts at Sarah Lawrence College, New York, concentraPng in Anthropology and Visual Arts
AWARDS / RECOGNITION
2021 -2022
Prince Clause Seed Award Recipient 2021
2021 – 2022
IFA Arts Research Grant Recipient, India Foundation for the Arts
2021
Selected winning proposal towards Boundaries: an Archives project and exhibit with The NaPonal Center of Biological
Sciences, Bangalore, India. [The Archives at NCBS is a public centre for the history of contemporary biology in India.]
2020
Inlaks Fine Art Awardee 2020, Inlaks Shivdasani FoundaPon, New Delhi.
2018
CerFficate of CommendaFon in Contemporary Art PracPce, SrishP InsPtute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2018 EssenFally Normal Studies, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
GROUP
2021 Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2021 with Blueprint 12 Gallery, Bikaner House, New Delhi
2021 Spiralling the Absurd with Anant Art Gallery , Bikaner House New Delhi
2020 Inlaks Fine Arts Awardees Exhibit / India Art Fair 2020, New Delhi
2020 Pushing Print, curated by Dr. Bess Frimodig and Indian Printmaker House, Art Buzz Studios, New Delhi
2019 EssenFally Normal Studies / The Wait Time Project, Cubbon Park Metro StaPon, Bangalore
2019 The Bandli Project, The Consulate of France, Bangalore
2018 SrishF CollecFve Show, SrishP- InsPtute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
2017 Odds and Ends, Gallery Ske, Bangalore

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021 – 2022
ArFst and Curatorial Lead for Bodies at Sea; Archives ExhibiPon with The NaPonal Centre of Biological Sciences
(NCBS), Bangalore.
2019 – Present
Founder and Facilitator of Hanno Terrace Studio: A collecPve art space curated to facilitate art as a therapeuPc tool
and outlet for children and adults from diverse backgrounds. The studio focuses on extending arPsPc inquiries into an
accessible, inclusive and restoraPve language through dialogic workshops and exercises.
PUBLICATIONS
2022
AdriX and at Sea, Essay published in Art India Magazine; Shiging Seasons, Volume 25, Issue 2, Quarter 2
2021
Art, Ableism and Access, Art CriPcism Essay published in Marg Magazine; Volume 72, Issue 4 , hjps://marg-art.org/
product/UHJvZHVjdDo1Mzgy exploring issues of disability, ableism and accessibility in art spaces, examining the need
for inclusive systems in a post pandemic world.
2021
Artwork published on Third Eye’s ‘Public Health EdiFon’; The Third Eye is a feminist think working on the intersecPons
of gender, sexuality, technology, and educaPon. hjps://thethirdeyeportal.in/about/
2019
EssenFally Normal Studies Artwork published on the cover of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol 4, No. 2, April –
June 2019
2018
EssenFally Normal Studies, Essay in Skin Stories, a digital social rights publicaPon around disability, sexuality and
gender. hbps://medium.com/skin-stories/essenKally-normal-studies-5fa651c0af8

PRESENTATIONS
2020
Guest lecture, “Invisibility, Expression and CollecFve Experience”; Department of InternaPonal RelaPons, Ashoka
University, Sonepat, India.
2018
Keynote speaker , ’EssenFally Normal Studies: a Fibromyalgia PaFent’s PerspectIve’, at MYOPAIN India 2018; an
internaPonal medical conference organised by the Indian Myopain Society, Bangalore, India
RESIDENCIES
2021 Smarter Digital RealiFes, Sandbox CollecPve in collaboraPon with Goethe InsPtute, Bangalore curated by
Padmini Ray Murray
2021 Project Maaf Digital Residency, Access for All as part of Connec-ons Through Culture: India-Wales, a grant
scheme by the BriPsh Council supported by Wales Arts InternaPonal/Arts Council of Wales. Supported by Serendipity
Arts.
2021 Inlaks Fine Art Awardees Virtual Residency , Inlaks Shivdasani Founda-on, mentored and curated by
independent curator and art writer, Veerangana Solanki

Devika’s artistic and curatorial practice shifts across different mediums, threading elements of collage, painting, and printmaking with photography, assemblage and installation. Exploring art as a restorative, meditative medium and outlet, she expresses collective themes of invisibility, illness, memory and impermanence within personal and shared human experience.

Devika is an Inlaks Fine Art Awardee 2020, awarded by the Inlaks Shivdasani foundation and a Prince Clause Fund Seed Award Recipient 2021. She curated Bodies at Sea, an archival exhibition with Studio Slip at The National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. She is a presently working on an arts research project as part of the IFA Arts Research grant (2021-2022) funded by India Foundation for the Arts.

Devika has exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore (2018) and in group shows at India Art Fair (2020), Delhi Contemporary Art Week (2021) with Blueprint 12 Gallery, Bikaner house with Anant Art Gallery (2021), Pushing Print (2020) with Indian Printmaker House, The Bandli Project (2019) at The Consulate of France Bangalore, among others. 

Devika presented her exhibition “Essentially Normal Studies” around invisible illnesses, as a keynote speaker at MYOPAIN 2018 and In 2020 as an interdisciplinary guest lecture at Ashoka University. Devika has also written pieces around art, disability and accessibility for Marg (2021), Art India (2021), and Skin Stories, published by Point of View (2018).

Parallel to her practice, Devika runs Hanno Terrace studio, a collective open studio founded to facilitate art as a therapeutic medium of release and outlet for children and adults from diverse backgrounds. Extending themes explored within her individual practice, she develops these into an accessible and inclusive language through dialogic art group workshops and personalised exercises conducted at the studio.

Devika studied Anthropology, Art History and Visual Arts in Sarah Lawrence College, New York, and graduated with a Commendation in Contemporary Art Practice from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design.

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