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
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Installations
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Illustrations
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Texts
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Paintings
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Assemblages
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Zines
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Artist Books
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Children’s Books
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Comics
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Interviews
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Workshops
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Embroideries
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Graphic stories
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Poems
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Fiction
She works with themes of
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Disability
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Rest
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(Anti-)Capitalism
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Familial relationships
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Personal objects
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Ghosts
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Memory mapping
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Rage, grief and abandonment
She is currently
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Reading Nana Vol. 10 by Ai Yazawa
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Watching Seinfeld
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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