Shalina Vichitra

(b. 1973, Kolkata, India)

Shalina Vichitra’s works function as visceral geographical annotations and recordings that employ the tools of cartography to address the complex subject of ‘belonging’ and the fragile balance between the natural world and human habitation. Space is configured not as a container, but is continually ‘produced’ through human activity and it cannot be verified, surveyed, mapped or measured. We’re constantly in the process of losing and finding our bearings against this gamut and the physiological, spatial and temporal ‘presents’ here coincide to construct the artist’s process of inquiry about a space to which we might belong. Lived spaces communicate our sensorial experience of remembering or imagining a place as opposed to being within or outside of it. Informed by the multifarious relationships that individuals and collectives have with shelters and the environment, the work explores the personal understanding of a place as a filtered sequence of encounters that encompasses its own set of narratives, aesthetic textures and subliminal thoughts. Built clusters or barren landscapes, textured surfaces of the Earth or organic settlements, Indigenous communities and their practices all become metaphors to decode encounters between the past or the present construct and transcend into a larger more universal context.

She earned her BFA and MFA at the College of Art, New Delhi. She has had solo shows with Gallery Art Motif, Art Inc. and Anant Art. Group shows include India Design with LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2025); India Art Fair with LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2022- 2025); Art Mumbai with LATITUDE 28, Mumbai (2023); Delhi Contemporary Art Week with LATITUDE 28, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2023-22); Art Dubai with LATITUDE 28, Dubai (2025& 2023); ‘Inner Life of Things’ curated by Roobina Karode, KNMA, New Delhi (2022); ‘Playhouse of Her Mind’, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2021); ‘When is Empathy too much’, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2020); ‘Grain’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi; ‘Negotiating Matters’ curated by Roobina Karode; ‘Summer’, Nature Morte; ‘Emerging India’, Royal College London; ‘Who do you think I am’, The Gallery at Cork Street London; ‘Contemporary Indian art’, Mueller and Plate, Munich; ‘Unearthing Memories of Civilisation’, curated by Roobina Karode, KNAM, New Delhi (2020); Fusing Barn Biennale, Taiwan. Her solo onsite project, ‘A thousand white Flags’ was supported by The India Art Fair, New Delhi (2019). Shalina lives and works in Gurugram, India.

The artist is represented by LATITUDE 28