This T-shirt is one-of-a-kind, created by Avantika Bawa to support Art Papers' mission.
Size: Medium
Avantika Bawa is an artist, curator, and educator based in Portland, OR, and often resides in her hometown, New Delhi, India.
Bawa has an MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in the same from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India.
She has participated in the Ucross, Skowhegan, MacDowell, Kochi Biennial Foundation, and Djerassi residencies among others. Noteworthy solo exhibits include shows at: The Portland Art Museum, Schneider Museum, Ashland, OR: Suyama Space, Seattle, WA, The Columbus Museum, GA, Saltworks Gallery, and the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA: Nature Morte, and Gallery Maskara, India: Lazy Eye, Yucca Valley, CA; and Disjecta, Portland, OR. Large scale installations include, iterations of The Scaffold Series at Rann, Kutch, India (2019-20), Art Beyond, Ashland OR (2021) and The Sculpture Park, Jaipur, India (2024).
In April 2004 she was part of a team that launched Drain - Journal for Contemporary Art and Culture. www.drainmag.com. In 2014 Avantika was appointed to the board of the Oregon Arts Commission. She is currently Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University, Vancouver, WA.
