
Meghna is a visual artist from Bombay. Her art reflects natural elements and creatures adapting to diverse everchanging landscapes. Natural light affecting the behaviour and growth of all beings are of interest to her. The fragility of our existence, travesty and the seamless adaptation and survival of sentient beings to our ecology is a sensation she attempts to reflect through her practice.
Surrealistic elements and anthropomorphism are intrinsic in the choice of elements seen in her painted drawings. The record of past history and mythology narrate many cyclical occurrences to absorb and it further dictates the imagined dystopic landscapes Meghna renders. She incorporates mythical creatures & natural elements into celestial manifestations.
The witnesses to our changing landscapes are natural formations and creatures that have survived a number of epochs. The importance of their existence for the balance in our environment and co-existence is juxtapositioned with manmade structures both observing each other. Mythology, fables and folklore woven through our ancestry collate -past, present and future narratives in Meghna's art explorations.
Education
2009
BFA Painting - Sir J.J. School of Art (Fine Art), Mumbai
2010
Post-Graduation in Museology & Conservation Studies - CSMVS Museum (formerly known as Prince of Wales), Mumbai
2020
Post-Graduation in Arts Based Therapy - Mind & Arts Institute, Mumbai
Awards & Grants
2021
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Awardee, Montreal, Canada
2020
Artists support grant, Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi
Exhibitions
Solo
2022
The Garden Of Icarus at Art & Charlie Culture House, Mumbai
2020
A River Runs Through You at Method Art Space, Mumbai read more
Group
2025
Thinking like a Mountain at Method Art Space, Mumbai
2025
Devil is in the Details at Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
2025
Of that, what we do not often look at at Gallery Dotwalk, New Delhi
2024
Are You My Sister a fundraising exhibition for Sister Library at Lovebirds, Mumbai
2024
Raw Collaborative at Visual Arts Gallery, Ahmedabad
2024
Telling Time Under The Soil : Exploring the diverse artistic practices of South Asian Women Artists at Bikaner House with Gallerie Splash, Delhi
2024
Portrait of a Time at Method Art Space, Mumbai
2024
A Latitude 28 Trilogy : Medium, Manifestation and Manipulation at Latitude 28 gallery, Delhi
2024
Here To Stay at Art & Charlie gallery, Mumbai
2023
Things Are Vanishing Before Us curated by Premjish Achari at Bikaner House with Gallery Dotwalk, New Delhi
2023
RHIZOME-Tracing Ecocultural Identities curated by Jesal Thacker at CSMVS Museum, Mumbai
2022
Yours in Truth (Fundraiser exhibition) curated by Saloni Doshi at Space 118, Mumbai
2022
Transmutations a curatorial project for young contemporaries curated by Ranjit Hoskote at the India Art Fair with Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2021
I Want Tomorrow curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala at Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai
2021
Dreamscapes (2 person exhibition) with artist Julia Romano curated by Sanjana Shah at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai read more
2021
Patterns of Intensity curated by Ranjit Hoskote at Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2021
Peppery Soliloquies curated by Georgina Maddox at Art Centrix Space, New Delhi
2020
Breathing Through Shifting Scapes curated by Jesal Thacker at Sakshi Gallery in partnership with Saffronart, Mumbai
2020
Collab curated by Jesal Thacker at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2019
Heirloom Of The Senses at Arts4all, New Delhi
2019
Here Among The Disappearing curated by Rivka Sadarangani (Art & Soul Gallery) at Jehangir Art Gallery, during the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai
2019
Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi
2019
Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
Residencies
2021
Space 118 Contemporaries Art Residency, Mumbai
2019
Kashi Art Residency, Kochi
2019
Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
2018
Piramal Art Residency, Mumbai
2017
WAA (What About Art) Residency, Mumbai
Press
2023
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2022
2021
2021
2021
Art India Magazine page 24
2021
2020
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2019