Shalini Passi Instagram – VARUNIKA SARAF IN CONVERSATION WITH SHALINI PASSI
Dr Varunika Saraf (@varunika.saraf ) is an artist and art historian based in Hyderabad. Saraf has participated in several group shows such Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions, Blaffer Art Museum (2024), Sangam/Confluence, Heidelberger Kunstverein (2020), Critical Constellations, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, (2019), Days Without a Night, Max Mueller Bhavan,(2018), and Phantoms of Asia, Asian Art Museum (2012).
She is the recipient of Asia Society’s Asia Arts Future Award (2023). In 2016, Saraf received the Amol Vadehra Art Grant. She was the Summer Research Fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Visiting Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute, Florence, NTICVA Visiting Fellow at the V&A Museum and the CWIT fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. Saraf holds a PhD and an MPhil from JNU, an MFA from the University of Hyderabad and a BFA from JNTU College of Fine Arts.
In 2023, she participated in the Sharjah Biennale 15, where she received an honourable mention for her embroidered series, We, The People. Her works are currently on view at the Asia Pacific Triennial 15, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. Saraf is represented by Chemould Prescott Road (@chemouldprescottroad ) Mumbai.
Image1: We, The People, Embroidery and Cochineal dye on cotton textile, one from a series 76 embroideries, 2018-2022
Image 2: Grinding watercolour in the studio
Image 3: Vikas Band & Co., Watercolour on Wasli backed with cotton textile, 67 x 76 in/ 170 x 193 cm, 2020
Image 4: Detail of Vikas Band & Co., Watercolour on Wasli backed with cotton textile, 67 x 76 in/ 170 x 193 cm, 2020
Image 5: The Forsaken, Watercolour on Wasli backed with cotton textile, 67 x 50 in/ 170 x 127 cm, 2020
Image 6: Let’s Tell it Like it is, Watercolour on Wasli backed with cotton textile, 67 x 76 in, 170 x 193 cm, 2020
Image 7: We, The People, Embroidery and Cochineal dye on cotton textile, one from a series 76 embroideries, 2018-2022
Image 8: Thieves in the forest, Watercolour on Wasli, 183 x 275 cm, 2024
Image 9: Artist Varunika Saraf
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