Neha Sahai

Neha Sahai’s practice occupies a luminous intersection between autobiography, myth, and memory. Drawing from design and narrative traditions, her work conjures a visual folklore of quiet surrealism, where moonlit fish women, star-gazing moths, and cross-species romances unfold in still, dreamlike spaces.

Emerging at 33 into painting as her primary language, Sahai’s practice resonates with feminist explorations of self and interiority. Her recurring Fish Woman figure, often draped in sarees and immersed in solitary rituals; reading, resting, or gazing into distant worlds; functions as a mythic double or alter ego. In these soft, sensorial landscapes, Sahai collapses distinctions between the remembered and the imagined, the personal and the archetypal. Her work aligns with a lineage of artists who have used figuration and myth to explore identity and interiority — from the narrative intimacy of Bhupen Khakhar, to the feminist poetics of Paula Rego and the introspective sensuality of Amrita Sher-Gil. Like them, Sahai weaves the deeply personal into visual vocabularies that transcend the self, creating spaces where memory becomes myth.

She has participated in group exhibition, such as: ‘The Personal is Mythical’ at LATITUDE 28,New Delhi (2025)