Juhikadevi Bhanjdeo

Juhika Devi Bhanj Deo is a practicing visual artist and educator whose work navigates the intersections of memory, identity, and material culture. Her practice stems from the metaphor of the “pocket,” a space that holds stories, beliefs, and social identities. Beginning with literal representations of pockets filled with objects, her work has evolved into abstract explorations of textiles, motifs, and layered compositions. Fabric, in particular, serves as a central narrative device in her practice, embodying both protection and prejudice, memory and transformation.

Through her artistic and academic practice, Juhikadevi Bhanjdeo continues to weave together the tangible and symbolic, exploring how personal and collective histories are encoded in fabric, color, and form, making textiles both witness and storyteller of lived experience.

Bhanjdeo holds a Master of Visual Arts in Painting from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2012) and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at AURO University, Surat, where she also serves as Assistant Professor at the School of Design. She has been awarded residencies including the Inlaks Artist in Residency at UNIDEE Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy (2015); the Glenfiddich Artist Residency, Scotland (2012); and the PEERS Residency at Khoj, Delhi (2013). Her accolades include the Glenfiddich Emerging Artist of the Year (2012), the Inlaks Shivdasani Fine Arts Award (2014), and the Narendra Gajanan Bhatt Gold Medal (2012). Her solo exhibitions include Challenging Precarity, AURO University, Surat (2019)

She has participated in numerous international and national group exhibitions, including: Delhi Contemporary Art Week with LATITUDE 28 (2025); Mycelial Legacies IV, Anant Art Gallery (2025); India Art Fair with KHOJ (2025); TAPI Festival, Surat (2024); ABODE OF CLOUDS at Indian International Centre (2018); CIMA Art Gallery, Kolkata (2017); 7th Bharat Bhavan Biennale of Contemporary Indian Art, Bhopal (2017); and AT UNIDEE– University of Ideas at Cittadellarte (2015).

Her works have been published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2020), Faces of Precarity: Restructuring Care-mentality in Asia (2024), and most recently as illustrations in the novel Tilore by Dhruv Bhatt (2025).