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