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Trained at Twickenham College of Art and Technology, Surrey, and worked in design and advertising in London before moving to India in the late 1990s. A practice across art, sound and farming. Founder of Farm8, Aya Nagar, New Delhi — an urban farm, a kitchen and a place for discussion and learning, and the living laboratory of the PHĪME institute.

Selected exhibitions

2025

across, with, nearby — Bergen Assembly, Norway, with AgriForum (FICA). Deemak.

2024

Sheher, Prakriti, Devi — Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai. Curated by Gauri Gill in dialogue with Sabih Ahmed. Deemak.

2012

India: Art Now — ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen. Curated by Dorthe Juul Rugaard. Chhota Paisa (Small Change), commissioned.

Sarai Reader 09 — Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon. Curated by Raqs Media Collective.

Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India — Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curated by Tami Katz-Freiman and Rotem Ruff.

KhojLive 12 — Qutub Qila, New Delhi, during India Art Fair. Curated by Pooja Sood.

2011

See if it can Happen — with Hans Koch. Lalit Kala Akademi, Garhi Artists’ Studios, New Delhi. Pro Helvetia.

Concurrent India — Helsinki Art Museum, Tennis Palace. Curated by Erja Pusa and Sointu Fritze.

2010

Samtidigt — Kulturhuset, Stockholm. Curated by Pia Kristoffersson.

Finding India: Art for the New Century — MOCA Taipei. Curated by Geetha Mehra.

SCRATCH — Sakshi Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Curated by Swapan Seth.

2009

Hawkers Ki Jagah — British Council, New Delhi, collateral to the India Art Summit. Curated by Hema Singh Rance and Priya Pall.

Film

Artwork as Living Form: Rashmi Kaleka — BMW Artist Film with India Art Fair, 2024.

Talks & programmes

Ingest and Growth — Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi.
AgriForum On-Site #1 — Art and Permaculture, with Rico Zook, at Farm8, 2024.

Press

Bloomberg, 2015 · Scroll.in, 2015 · The Christian Science Monitor, 2020 · The National, 2024.

Contact

[email protected]
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