Sareena Khemka

Sareena Khemka is a visual artist working in mixed media drawing, painting and sculpture. Fragmented Landscapes, was conceived as the aftermath of a site that has been destroyed, akin to a man-made disaster such as an earthquake or an old house that has been demolished. The physical act of breaking the housing terracotta tiles or the shattering of the cement such as in demolition sites, created organic shapes that relied on chance, as one could not direct where the fault lines would form. Urban Fragments are reminiscent of a flow of time, from particles of the past to the built environment that creates these interventions in space where perspectives have been collapsed and shifted.

Khemka holds a B.F.A in painting from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, India. She has been a resident artist at Space 118, Mumbai several times and The Piramal Art Foundation, Mumbai. Her works have been recently exhibited with Exhibit 320 in the shows, ‘Conjunction of Spheres,’ curated by Girish Shahne at the Delhi Contemporary Art Week, New Delhi, 2023, India Art Fair, New Delhi 2023, ‘Public Memory,’ a digital show by The Upside Space, 2023, and in the show, ‘Virtues of landscape,’ New Delhi, 2022. She was also a recipient of the Jaaga Art & Tech fellowship for a public mural art project in Bangalore 2021.