b. 1987, Madurai, India Live & work in Colombo, Sri Lanka


Education & Training

2017

Block printing internship, Gitto Studio, Jaipur, India

2010 - 2013

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, Painting and Drawing, Chicago, IL, USA

2006 - 2009

University College London, BSc Mathematics with Economics, London, UK


Solo Exhibitions

2022

Tiger Balm & Other Boxes, Martha van Rensselaer Gallery, College of Human Ecology,  Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA    (October 23rd - November 15th)

Group Exhibitions

2022

VERSO: A Virtual Sehnsucht Exhibition, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY, USA a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. Kal / fragments from a collective archive, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2021

Open Studio, House of Kal, CoCA Symbiosis, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2020

Invite Only, Inadequate Lighting, Baltimore, MD, USA

2019   

Open Studios, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK  London Summer Intensive: Work in Progress, Camden Art Centre, London, UK 

2017   

Expanded Field of Drawing – Recent Works, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK                            

2015

The Landscape Changes 30 Times, Anahita Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran Between the Lines, Gallery 19, Chicago, IL, USA

2013

Acts of Gravitas, Eyeporium Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA  SAIC Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA Filter-ing, HQ Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA I'm Not There, John M. Flaxman Library, Chicago, IL, USA

2011 Bring a Light Wrap, Galerie AVU, Prague, Czech Republic Listen/Haslouchat, 30 Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

Artist Residencies

2021    

House of Kal, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2020    

Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA, USA

2019      

AARK (Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo,) Korpo, Finland Olo Center, Enonkoski, Finland  London Summer Intensive, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Workshops & Publications

2022

Workshop: Sewing and Embroidery with artists Sabeen Omar and Shahdia Jamaldeen, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Colombo, Sri Lanka Wearing Emotions by Alke: Beading Workshop, Hatch Works, Colombo, Sri Lanka Beading Creatures with Sabeen Omar, Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2021

Talking hands with Hema Shironi and Sabeen Omar, CoCA Symbiosis, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2017

Re-Imagining Ceylon: Contemporary Artists from Sri Lanka, Imago Mundi Sri Lanka for The Luciano Benetton Collection

2013

Interviewed with Gabriella Brown for F Newsmagazine