Avni Bansal
Delhi / Chandigarh
avni2303bansal@gmail.com
Avni Bansal
Delhi / Chandigarh
avni2303bansal@gmail.com
Avni Bansal is an independent visual artist and printmaker, shuttling between the cities, Delhi and Chandigarh. Her artistic practice portrays an awareness of the self being constantly gazed upon and derived by the environment around us. Her practice satirizes a stria of Indian ways of life by recognizing and taking out inspirations from the subconscious moments, beliefs and folies of life persistent in Indian culture, rituals, habits, behaviours and memories. Functionally, it attempts to find and deconstruct the decorative and ornamental elements popularly witnessed in Indian living which can be defined as kitschy elements of art in India by referring to both historical and existent cultural environments represented in the form of new motifs, symbols and visuals.
Avni probes the lines of separation between 'high-art' and craft-forms through the visual tool of design. Using wit and humour, she weaves her quest for abstraction through critical theoretical frameworks of mass/ popular culture and the phenomena of folk and tribal by appropriation and recontextualization of motifs and forms. Her works speak about the creation and interpretation of forms, how a structure evolves its existence through artistic vision and the subsequent interpretation by viewers based on one's own subjective world-view and knowledge. The works may seem purely abstract but they do have a structure known to the human mind. Arrangement and treatment play vital roles in her work; the words or titles she writes along the works are significant semiotic pointers for interpretation of the artistic forms.
Avni Bansal is an independent visual artist and printmaker, shuttling between the cities, Delhi and Chandigarh. Her artistic practice portrays an awareness of the self being constantly gazed upon and derived by the environment around us. Her practice satirizes a stria of Indian ways of life by recognizing and taking out inspirations from the subconscious moments, beliefs and folies of life persistent in Indian culture, rituals, habits, behaviours and memories. Functionally, it attempts to find and deconstruct the decorative and ornamental elements popularly witnessed in Indian living which can be defined as kitschy elements of art in India by referring to both historical and existent cultural environments represented in the form of new motifs, symbols and visuals.
Avni probes the lines of separation between 'high-art' and craft-forms through the visual tool of design. Using wit and humour, she weaves her quest for abstraction through critical theoretical frameworks of mass/ popular culture and the phenomena of folk and tribal by appropriation and recontextualization of motifs and forms. Her works speak about the creation and interpretation of forms, how a structure evolves its existence through artistic vision and the subsequent interpretation by viewers based on one's own subjective world-view and knowledge. The works may seem purely abstract but they do have a structure known to the human mind. Arrangement and treatment play vital roles in her work; the words or titles she writes along the works are significant semiotic pointers for interpretation of the artistic forms.
Exhibitions I Residencies
2023
Encrypted I Apre Art House I Mumbai
Curator - Lina Vincent
Collective Impact Diverse Perspectives
Exhibit 320 I Delhi
Curator - Prayag Chakradhar
Rooted I Terrain.art
only drawing will remain I Terrain.art
Curator - Srinivas Mangipudi
Slivers of My Existence I Terrain. art
Solo Representation
Curator - Sanjana Srinivasan
2022
Winter Residency 2022 I Space Studios Baroda
Representation of Works I Hissa Art Space
Scholarship by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy
Open Hand Studios
2021
Screen print Residency I Pulp Society I Delhi
Curator - Sitara Chowfla
Living a Dark Night I Kala Chaupal Trust
Curator - Paula Sen Gupta
Wabi- Sabi I RKG Gallery I Delhi
Curator - Akanksha Wadhwani
2020
Double Vision I IPEP 2020
Curator - Sitara Chowfla
Give me Space : New Prints 2020/ Summer
IPCNY I New York
Curator - Chitra Ganesh
No longer impervious to simplicity of things
Solo Representation I Art Centrix I Delhi
Curator - Monica Jain
Lithography Residency I Pathways Chain of Schools I Delhi
2019
8th Sofia Print Triennale I Bulgaria
Stree Vision,51 Indian Contemporary Female Printmakers
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art and Design, Poland Museum of the Arts,University of Guadalajara, Mexico
CMYK Project I Print Club i Delhi
2017
Archival Dialogues I Priyasri Art Gallery I Mumbai
Curator - Pronoy Chakroborty
Kala Sakshi Memorial Art Residency I Delhi
2016
Peep In I The Atelier I New Delhi
International Biennale of Small Graphics I Inter - Art Foundation I Romania
Printmaking Residency I Uttarayan Art Foundation
Gujarat
Scholarship for Young Artist in Cultural Fields I Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India
2015
‘'Touch’, Parked At I Niwasa Delhi
Curator - Kanika Anand
'56th National Award', Lalt Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2015
Exhibitions I Residencies
2023
Encrypted I Apre Art House I Mumbai
Curator - Lina Vincent
Collective Impact Diverse Perspectives
Exhibit 320 I Delhi
Curator - Prayag Chakradhar
Rooted I Terrain.art
only drawing will remain I Terrain.art
Curator - Srinivas Mangipudi
Slivers of My Existence I Terrain. art
Solo Representation
Curator - Sanjana Srinivasan
2022
Winter Residency 2022 I Space Studios Baroda
Representation of Works I Hissa Art Space
Scholarship by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy
Open Hand Studios
2021
Screen print Residency I Pulp Society I Delhi
Curator - Sitara Chowfla
Living a Dark Night I Kala Chaupal Trust
Curator - Paula Sen Gupta
Wabi- Sabi I RKG Gallery I Delhi
Curator - Akanksha Wadhwani
2020
Double Vision I IPEP 2020
Curator - Sitara Chowfla
Give me Space : New Prints 2020/ Summer
IPCNY I New York
Curator - Chitra Ganesh
No longer impervious to simplicity of things
Solo Representation I Art Centrix I Delhi
Curator - Monica Jain
Lithography Residency I Pathways Chain of Schools I Delhi
2019
8th Sofia Print Triennale I Bulgaria
Stree Vision,51 Indian Contemporary Female Printmakers
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art and Design, Poland Museum of the Arts,University of Guadalajara, Mexico
CMYK Project I Print Club i Delhi
2017
Archival Dialogues I Priyasri Art Gallery I Mumbai
Curator - Pronoy Chakroborty
Kala Sakshi Memorial Art Residency I Delhi
2016
Peep In I The Atelier I New Delhi
International Biennale of Small Graphics I Inter - Art Foundation I Romania
Printmaking Residency I Uttarayan Art Foundation
Gujarat
Scholarship for Young Artist in Cultural Fields I Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India
2015
‘'Touch’, Parked At I Niwasa Delhi
Curator - Kanika Anand
'56th National Award', Lalt Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2015
Features
In Conversation with Avni Bansal I Terrain.art
Artist respond to Pandemic through Printmaking
Rough Draft through history : Printmaking through crises
Avni Bansal In conversation with Waswo X Waswo
World University Of Design Presented 'YAJNASENI' An Art Show To Celebrate The Fable Called 'Woman' -
Get Ready For Mumbai Art Gallery Weekend 2018 | Verve Magazine
Printmaker's Den I Art Buzz Studios
Experience
Living A Dark Night I Assistant Curator
2021- 2023
RISD Alumni Show 2020 I Building Ruins I Programme Manager 2020
Lalit Kala Akademi I New Delhi I Programme Coordinator I 2018 - 2020
DBS, Trends and Design Studio I Noida I Textile Designer I 2017
Features
In Conversation with Avni Bansal I Terrain.art
Artist respond to Pandemic through Printmaking
Rough Draft through history : Printmaking through crises
Avni Bansal In conversation with Waswo X Waswo
World University Of Design Presented 'YAJNASENI' An Art Show To Celebrate The Fable Called 'Woman' -
Get Ready For Mumbai Art Gallery Weekend 2018 | Verve Magazine
Printmaker's Den I Art Buzz Studios
Experience
Living A Dark Night I Assistant Curator
2021- 2023
RISD Alumni Show 2020 I Building Ruins I Programme Manager 2020
Lalit Kala Akademi I New Delhi I Programme Coordinator I 2018 - 2020
DBS, Trends and Design Studio I Noida I Textile Designer I 2017