Janhavi Sharma

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Janhavi is a visual artist from Mumbai, India, currently living and working in Nottingham, UK.

Her work explores the intimate conflicts of remembering, misremembering and forgetting present within the material of gendered memory. She delves into the inaccuracies, and unreliabilities of anecdotal histories from a post-colonial feminist lens, and finds meanings in the distorted, folkloric structures of storytelling. She works across photography, sculpture and installation - using the tools of performance and fiction in reviving, and re-assembling narratives that contribute to, and transform her accumulated experience of the 'self'. Her work also offers uninterrupted observations of how the domestic interacts with its immediate biodiversity, and traces the ecological and socio-political trajectories of the materials and processes she interacts with.

Janhavi earned her MFA Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University (2022), Post-Grad Diploma in Art History and Curatorial Studies from BDL Museum (2018) and a Bachelor’s in Mass Media with a specialisation in Journalism from Mumbai University (2014). A few of her key achievements include getting the Near Now Ideas Fund Award (2023), exhibiting at the NAE Open (2022), exhibiting at the 'Night of the year' event at Recontres De’Arles (2022), Digital Exhibition at FotoFemmeUnited, Paris (2021), being selected for exclusive training and workshop on Ecological and Post-Colonial Feminism by European Alternatives’ Room-To-Bloom, Athens (2021), Digital Exhibition and Print Sale at Open Doors Gallery, London (2021), among others. Prominent residencies include Space118, Mumbai (2018), RTX Colombo, Sri Lanka (2016) Kochi Muziris Biennale Master Practice Studio (2015). Janhavi has lead public engagement activities and workshops with various art organisations including Primary, No Jobs In The Arts, and more. She's been featured in publications across India and UK.