Ranjit Kandalgaonkar (b.1976) is an artist-researcher whose practice primarily comprises a lens directed at the urban context of cities. Some of the works map vulnerability within redevelopment strategies of urbanisation or record timelines and ‘blindspots’ - alternate markers of a city that’s unraveling. Most of his long-term projects are research-intensive and attempt to unlock historical and contemporary data by placing the work in the context of an unseen social history. Awards & grants include Majlis Visual Arts Fellowship, U.D.R.I. Fellowship, The Leverhulme Trust Artist Residency, Harvard University SAI Artist Residency, The Wellcome Trust Seed Grant, BGSW Artist residency and a Wellcome Collections/Gasworks Artist Residency. His works have been showcased at Bergen Assembly ‘16, Colomboscope ’19, Savvy Contemporary, and Art Jameel amongst others.

Prajakta Palav (b. 1979) is a contemporary artist from Mumbai, well-known for her highly detailed acrylic paintings depicting the everyday realities of middle-class life in India. Palav has drawn extensively from her personal archive of photographs to transform ordinary domestic and urban scenes into photorealistic paintings. Rather than simply documenting her surroundings, Palav extends and distorts the fleeting moment, allowing memory, perception, and material to converge. Her paintings become a way of holding on to experiences that are continually altered by time, urban growth, and personal memory. Living and working in Mumbai, Palav’s practice reflects the city not as a fixed landscape, but as an ongoing process of observation, transformation, and remembrance Palav holds a BFA in Painting and an MFA in Portraiture from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai. She has exhibited widely, including at Vadehra Art Gallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Kalakriti Art Gallery, Project 88, Gallery Beyond, Kitab Mahal, and the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai. She has received several awards, including the Best Portrait Award and the Future Artist Award from NGMA, Mumbai.

Amiya Ranjan Ojha (b.1998) is a printmaker with a masters in printmaking from MSU, Baroda (2024). His work has been exhibited in the Students’ Biennale of Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018, 2021). In 2023 he won the Odisha State Lalit Kala Academy Award for his work, Leaving, non-Living and the all India Gold Grant by Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation for his work, Midnight.  Ojha’s practice centres around the lived experience of migration, displacement, and belonging. He comes from a family of woodworkers with his father being a carpenter and his grandfather, a dollmaker. His woodblock prints express a special affinity for and keen grasp of the medium. The printmaker has a natural understanding of the material and his inherited craft is evident in the fine lines, texture, and depth he establishes in his work.

Rokesh Patil is an artist from Arnala Island Mumbai, and a member of the Koli fishing community. His artistic practice is deeply connected to the sea and to the cultural, social, and historical traditions of coastal life. Growing up in a maritime environment, Patil developed an intimate understanding of the ocean, its inhabitants, and the daily experiences of communities whose lives are closely tied to it. Rooted in Mumbai’s complex coastal ecology, Patil’s sculptural practice examines the sea as a site of labour, memory, livelihood, and cultural identity. Boats recur throughout his work as both material forms and carriers of meaning, evoking the networks of movement, exchange, and survival that connect the city to its waters. Patil holds a Bachelor’s degree in Painting from L. S. Raheja School of Art, Mumbai, and a PDVA in Printmaking from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Dipali Gupta (b. 1976) is a visual artist whose practice explores societal structures from a feminist perspective. Her practice is influenced by the writings of Foucault and Deleuze focusing on theories of pleasure and desire. Working across mediums, Gupta’s practice explores abstraction, eroticism and feminist theory, challenging societal norms around sexuality and identity.  A graduate from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore and Goldsmith’s University, London, Dipali Gupta has been awarded the Marian Treger Fellowship for Enduring Creativity, 2025 at Virginia Centre for Creative Arts, USA, was a finalist for The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, 2022 and is the winner of the Chan Davies Art Prize, 2018.

Kurekar (b. 1996), who has a Master’s degree Fine Arts (Sculpture) from MS University of Baroda, Gujarat, and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (Sculpture) from Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya in Chhattisgarh, explores connections between childhood memories and the sociopolitical dynamics of contemporary society.  ​The artist works with various mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, site-specific installations, and kinetic sculpture. He has previously been a part of several ensemble shows, most notably ‘Pushpmala’ at Anant Art Gallery in Noida and ‘Yaadon ka Sailab’ at Gallery Splash in Gurugram.

Wenceslaus Mendes is an artist, documentary filmmaker, and independent researcher with over twenty-five years of industry experience. Apprentice-trained as a cinematographer and editor, he has worked extensively across advertising, broadcast television, and digital-web platforms. His practice lies within indigenous and tribal communities, shaped by shared concerns of land and water, environment, sustainability, and climate change. Here, he frames his work within an ethos of ‘Indigenous-Eco-Futurism,’ documenting practices, oral cultures, and processes of ethno-technologies, while also exploring the politics of food, consumption, and the making and dissemination of knowledge through the creation of sensoriums. For him, local – both geospatial and temporal – and indigenous knowledge are critical in envisioning inclusive and sustainable futures.

Vasudhaa Narayanan is a visual artist and educator whose practice engages with gender, domesticity, and the body through photography, text, sound, and performance. Her work critically examines the intersection of patriarchy, caste, and cultural conditioning, often using conceptual imagery to interrogate ideas of otherness, shame, and autonomy. Drawing from personal and collective narratives, she explores the ways in which women’s bodies become contested sites within social, historical, and domestic spaces. Vasudhaa Narayanan (b. 1991, Bangalore, India) lives and works in Bombay, India. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally at venues such as Tri Art & Culture (Kolkata), Lumenvisum (Hong Kong), Halden Bookworks (Norway), Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts – Project Space (New York, NY), the Goethe-Institut (India), and Bass & Reiner (San Francisco, CA).