Education:​

• Undergraduate degree in Applied Arts (Bachelor in Fine Arts), L S Raheja School of Arts, Mumbai, 1995-2000​

• Post-graduate diploma in Visual Communication; specialization in Graphic Design, National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, 2003-06​

• One-week residential course in Brugge, Belgium, 2015, and two-year-long online course on advanced calligraphy by master calligrapher Brody Neuenschwander, 2020-21

 

​​Exhibitions:

Solo:

2025: Aksharscape, Artisera, Bikaner House, New Delhi

2024: Nirakar Akar, Artisera, Bangalore International Centre (BIC), Bangalore
2023: Sacred Strokes II, Artisera, Bangalore
2020: Sacred Strokes I, Artisera, Bangalore

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Group:

2025

• Scripted Dialogues, travelling exhibition, various centers of Alliance Française in India

• The World Calligraphy Biennale, Jeollabuk, South Korea (2015, 2017)

• KaChaTaThaPa, International Calligraphy Exhibition, Kochi, Kerala (Since 2019)

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2024

• Akshar Mahotsav, the caligraphy foundation, IGNCA, New Delhi

• Cheongju Jikji World Calligraphy Exhibition, South Korea (2019, 2021)​
   

2023

• The Asian Calligraphy Exhibition, Seoul Calligraphy Museum, South Korea (2022)

• Miraj International Calligraphy Exhibition, Institute of Indo-Islamic Art and Culture, Bangalore

• SCALE, Artisera, Bangalore

 

2022

• A Brush with Silence, Bruges, Belgium (online)

• Me, You and the world, Artisera, Bangalore

• Mixed Bag, Artisera, Bangalore

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2021

• Trail of Hope, Artisera, Bangalore

• Forms of Faith, Artisera, Bangalore

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2020

• India Art Festival, Artisera, Mumbai

 

2019

• Centre D’art, Auroville as part of a residency, South India

• Tool art, National Library of Singapore, Singapore

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2018

Gandhi Virasat Kaagazkala, an exhibition on Mahatma Gandhi’s thoughts expressed through calligraphy on handmade paper, IGNCA, Delhi

 

2016

Zones of Privacy, books, sketchbooks as a work of art, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai

 

2015

Fibre Fables, a collaborative art show between eleven artists and the carpet weavers of Raj Group, Panipat, The Stainless Gallery, Delhi

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2014

• Calligraphy tells the beauty, an exhibition of calligraphy works by

• Korean and Indian artists, Korean Cultural Centre, Delhi, India,

• Haanji Festival, Korean Cultural Centre, Delhi, India

• One Asia Project, Taipei, Taiwan

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2012
One Asia Project, Delhi

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2011
RASA, Russian Centre of Science and Culture, Delhi

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2010

Letterformative, Mocha Arthouse, Delhi

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Features and accolades:

• Awarded ‘excellence in calligraphy’ at Jikji International Calligraphy Exhibition, South Korea 2024
 

​• An artwork longlisted for the Jackson Painting Prize 2023

• Invited to participate and showcase the work in prominent calligraphy events in South Korea including the World Calligraphy Biennale, the Cheongju Jikji World Calligraphy Exhibition, and
the Asian Calligraphy Festival

• Work selected and published in Typism since 2021, curated collections of the world’s best type and lettering

• Calligraphy works were published in a few annual juried issues of Letter Arts Review an esteemed international calligraphy magazine from USA

• Winner of the prestigious blue elephant at Kyoorius Design Award 2018 for ‘Harper Perennial Series’ under the ‘Design for Books’ category

• Firaq Gorakhpuri, Ajai Mansingh, Roli Books, was a finalist in the second Oxford Bookstore
Book Cover Prize 2016

• Speaker at TEDx Shiv Nadar University, NOIDA, India

• Recipient of a gold award for outstanding work in Calligraphy (Callihunt 2016); organized by
Achyut Palav School of Calligraphy, Mumbai (APSC), 2016

• Featured as an ‘Artist of the Week’ on ‘The New Creative India’; a television series on NDTV Good Times, 2014

• Invited to exhibit for ‘20 Under 35’ – as an emerging designer at DesignXDesign, at the Alliance française, Delhi, India, 2014

• Work and interviews have been featured in Portraits of Indian Design by Dr Alka Pande, Juggernaut, Vogue, Platform, NDTV (TV Channel), Kyoorius, POOL, Desi Creative, and many blogs, and websites

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​​​Workshops and teaching:

​• Ecole Intuit Lab, Bangalore
• Avantika University, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
• Mudra Institute of Communications, (MICA), Ahmedabad
• National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Bangalore & Panchkula
• SASI Creative Institute of Design, Coimbatore
• Srishti school of art and design, Bangalore
• Strate School of Design, Bangalore
• The Valley School, Bangalore

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• Aichi Association, Ladakh
• Kalakshar (design festival), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi
• Ka Cha Ta Tha Pa (calligraphy festival), Kerala
• Callifest, Surat, Gujrat
• Sulekhan,  International Calligraphy Day 2022

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• Ashoka University, Sonipat (NCR)
• AccionLabs, India
• CEPT, Ahmedabad
• Frog Design, India
• Philips Design, India
• RV School of Design, India
• National Institute of Design (NID), Bangalore