Shrine Empire Gallery

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Donated Bus stop
Kilinochchi the heart of peace and hope
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We crouched down in the bunker in silence
The Camouflagic Smile
Kindness, Friendliness, Happiness and Equanimity
Donated Bus stop
Kindness, Friendliness, Happiness and Equanimity
Kindness, Friendliness, Happiness and Equanimity
Kindness, Friendliness, Happiness and Equanimity
They Need To Break and Mend (viii), 2025
Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round, 2025
They Need To Break and Mend (vi), 2025
They Need To Break and Mend (v), 2025
They Need To Break and Mend (vii), 2025
They Need To Break and Mend (iv), 2025
They Need To Break and Mend (iii), 2025
They Need To Break and Mend (ii), 2025
They Need To Break and Mend (i), 2025
A Lost of House (iv), 2025
A Lost of House (iii), 2025
A Lost of House (ii)
A Lost of House (i)
Fence by Flag, 2025
In The Shadow if Broken House (ii), 2025
In The Shadow if Broken House (i), 2025
Fragments of the Sacred, 2025
Each Press Reminds Your Presence, 2025
A Place I Once Belonged, 2025
Confessional booth (ii), 2025
Confessional booth (i), 2025
Mary, Mari and Maya the mother of….., 2025
Take Me to The Elephant Pass, 2025
I Hope For One More Permanent, 2025
The White Mountains and Cage of Fence, 2025
Grey House (ii), 2025
Grey House (i), 2025
Faded; Should be Respectfully Retired and Replaced with New Ones, 2024
Pack your Belonging, Leaving Soon, 2024

Education

2011-2016 BFA (visual art), Ramanadhan Fine Arts Academy University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
2019-2020 MA (visual art), Beacon House National University in Lahore, Pakistan.

Solo Exhibitions

2025

"Home Wrapped in Cloth, Borders Raised in Flags" Bikaner House, New Delhi, India

2024

“Families ‘not’ in the List,” Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2021

“Rented Shadow and Neighbors,” Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Group Exhibitions

2025

India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India

2024

The 11th Art Asia Pacific Triennial], the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery Of Modern Art, Australia (Upcoming)

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Bikaner House, New Delhi

“PAST of the Present”, curated by Jagath Weerasinghe, Old High Court Matara, Sri Lanka.

2023

“Small World” curated by Freya Chou and Brian Kuan Wood and Reem Shahid, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India

“The Foreigners” curated by Sandev Handy and Sharmini Pereira, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka

“WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD” curated by Mariyam Begum and Ashini Nanayakkara, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2022

“Critical Zones” curated by Bruno Latour, Peter Weilbel, Martin Guinard and Bettina Korintenberg, Colombo, Sri Lanka and Pune, Mumbai, India

7th edition of COLOMBOSCOPE, ‘Language is Migrant’ curated by Anushka Rajendran with artistic director Natasha Ginwala, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2021

“House of Kal” curated by Sandev Handy at COCA-Collective of Contemporary Artists, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2019

6th edition of COLOMBOSCOPE, curated by Natasha Ginwala, Rio Complex, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2018

“True Being” curated by T Sanathanan, Art circle, Fine Art Department, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

“Being and becoming” curated by T Sanathanan, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2017

Theertha Performance Workshop, Theertha Artist Collective, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2013

Open Edit: Mobile Library – from AAA to Raking Leaves, curated by Sharmini Perera, ParkStreet Mews Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Workshops

2024

“Community Art Project”, Matara Art Festival, Curated by Jagath Weerasinghe, Sri Lanka

“SupportLocalArt Talk: Artists Edition 3, Organized by ARTRA in association with Saskia Fernando Gallery

“New Perspectives: Women Artist in Sri Lanka, Organized by KALĀ x ASAP (Art South Asia Project)

2023

“Let’s Bundle your Joy” Textiles and embroidery to create a personal heirloom at Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka

“Swing and Embroidery” with Hema Shironi, Sabeen Omar and Shahdia Jamaldeen to explore ways of Storytelling in relation to display 5 and 6 of ‘Encounters’ rotation 3 at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka

2022

“Swing and Embroidery” with Hema Shironi and Shahdia Jamaldeen to explore ways of storytelling In relation to display 2 of ‘Encounters’ rotation 2 at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka.

“Stitching Architecture”- programming around the exhibition, Geoffrey Bawa: It is Essential to be there- Stitching workshop

We Are Present: Women’s Histories of Conflict, Courage and Survival- Collecting women experience in Sri Lanka

2021

“Talking hands” – House of Kal Colombo, at CoCA Artist Talks

Residency

2021

House of Kal Colombo

Publication covers

2024

“International Conflict Feminism”, By Vasuki Nesiah, University of Pennsylvania Press

2023

“Untethered “, By Ayesha Inoon, Harper Collins Publishers Australia.

2022

“We are Present: Women’s Histories of Conflict, Courage and Survival is a collection of women’s lived experiences of Conflict in Sri Lanka”, Edited by Radhika Hettiarachchi.

Hema Shironi (b. 1991, Kandy) is a multidisciplinary artist. Her wide-ranging artistic practice combines embroidery, mythological imagery, bricolage, and installation to inquire concepts of cultural identity. Her work is deeply rooted in observance of the history of colonization, civil war, displacement and migration, which she highlights through personal stories and experiences of living in Sri Lanka. As a child, her family often moved from one place to another and she eventually found herself questioning the bonds that communities and individuals make. Her work is driven by the nostalgia of the numerous places she has called home and how each community belonging to those places grapples with concerns of language, culture, memory, myth, gender, and equality.

Shironi completed her MFA at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore (2019) and her BFA from the Ramanathan Fine Arts Academy, University of Jaffna (2014).

Shironi’s work has been featured at Assembling Grounds: Practices of Coexistence, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (2025); (Un)Layering the Future Past of South Asia : Young Artist Voices, SOAS Gallery, London, UK (2025); Families ‘not’ in the list, Saskia Fernando Gallery (2024); KALĀ Commune, J.D.A. Perera Gallery, Colombo (2024); the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane (2024); the 13th Taipei Biennial: Small World, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (2023)Critical Zones, J.D.A Perera Gallery, Colombo (2022) and Colomboscope, Colombo (2022 and 2019). She has also participated in an Artist Residency at House of Kal, Sri Lanka (2021); Rented Shadow and Neighbours, Saskia Fernando Gallery (2021). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art.

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