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About the Artist

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Lakshmi Nagaraj is an Indian visual artist, illustrator and writer based in Utrecht, The Netherlands and Bengaluru, India. 

She makes

  • Installations

  • Illustrations

  • Texts

  • Paintings

  • Assemblages

  • Zines

  • Artist Books

  • Children’s Books

  • Comics

  • Interviews

  • Workshops

  • Embroideries

  • Graphic stories

  • Poems

  • Fiction

She works with themes of

  • Disability

  • Rest

  • (Anti-)Capitalism

  • Familial relationships

  • Personal objects

  • Ghosts

  • Memory mapping

  • Rage, grief and abandonment

She is currently

  • Reading Nana Vol. 10 by Ai Yazawa

  • Watching Seinfeld

  • Trying to enjoy her summer vacation

If you're looking for a less quirky, more "professional" version of Lakshmi, you can find her Curriculum Vitae below.

Lakshmi Nagaraj - CV

Solo Exhibition

2024   Mapping Memories: The Lost Spaces of Yelahanka, Public Installation, Bangalore

 

Group Exhibitions

2026.  The past lingers, the present haunts, Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd, Utrecht 

2024   This Body of Mine, The Starving Artist, Online

2024   Salon de Refusées, krautART ARTspace, Berlin 

2024   In the Space Between Us and They, Studio Next Art Foundation, Online

2023   Ordinary Objects, Decagon Gallery, Online

2023   Collaborative Art Space International Biennale, Tasmai Centre for Art and Culture,

           Pondicherry 

2022   AMI Arts Festival, curated by Suresh Jayaram for Kolkata Centre for Creativity,                     Kolkata

2022   Outer Space, The Layered Onion, Wisconsin

 

Curation

2024   Mapping Memories: The Lost Spaces of Yelahanka, Public installation, Bangalore

2021    Sweet Art Sale, Gallery Time and Space, Bangalore

 

Grant

2024   Project 560: Neighbourhood Engagements Grant by India Foundation for the Arts,                 Bangalore, awarded for Mapping Memories: The Lost Spaces of Yelahanka. 

 

Presentations

2026.   Transdisciplinary Zine Presentation - Participant, Casco Art Institute, Utrecht.   

2025    Layer by Layer: Mapping Personal Histories Through Art Zines - Guest Lecture for                   1st-4th year Architecture students at PES University, Bangalore.

2024     Art Installation as a Vessel for Memory: Mapping Yelahanka’s Lost Public Spaces -                 Research paper presented at Urban Ethnography and Bangalore Symposium,                       Vidyashilp University, Bangalore.

2024     The Tapestry of Time: The Changing Landscape of our Neighbourhoods - Panellist               at the showcase by India Foundation of the Arts, Bangalore.

Press Mentions

2024   Art project on Yelahanka New Town’s evolution, Deccan Herald

2024   Tracing Nostalgia, Our Bangalore

2024   Mapping the Journey from Bangalore to Bengaluru, The New Indian Express

Professional Experience

2024-25   Contributing Art Writer at Rooftop 

2024         Production Assistant at the Gender Bender Arts Festival by Sandbox Collective 

2024         Studio Assistant at Studio Perimeter

2023-24    Project Coordinator for Mapping Memories: The Lost Spaces of Yelahanka, a                          project under India Foundation for the Arts

2021-23     Creative Consultant for Walnut Pie by SpaceMystique Interiors

2021-22     Curatorial Assistant at MKF Museum of Art

2020-21     Curatorial Assistant at Gallery Time and Space 

Education

Current   MA Fine Art, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU), Utrecht

2020       BA Economics Hons., Christ University, Bangalore

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