Aishwarya Sultania with her foam Eiffel Tower sculpture, Paris 2010

Aishwarya
Sultania

A multidisciplinary artist based in India with over two decades of practice. Working across cyanotype, mixed media, performance, installation, and technology, her work consistently returns to the body — its relationship with cosmos, myth, and the everyday domestic.

She studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Her work has been shown at the Alliance Française de Delhi, South Asian Contemporary Art Amsterdam, and in collaborative tech-art contexts globally.

25+ Years
5+ Solo Shows
∞ Mediums
  • 2000 Solo show — Welham Girls' School, Dehradun
  • 2001 Solo show — Welham Girls' School Principal's Special Award & Ayesha Mayadas Kenny Scholarship for Creativity Yoga certification, Ramamani Memorial Iyengar Institute, Pune
  • 2003 Co-curated & exhibited in "Nuts?! Yes Nuts!" — SPACE, Delhi 1-year Curatorial Study Programme under Johny M. Laxman, SPACE
  • 2004 B.A. Hons, Higher National Diploma (Edexcel, London) — SPACE, Delhi Performance Art Show "Off The 19th Milestone" sponsored by BSNL, Dehradun Annual Exhibition 'Space within Space', Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi Collaborative installation with R.V. Sindhu, SPACE
  • 2005 'Tsunami' Fund-Raising Exhibition — SPACE, Delhi Annual Art Exhibition — SPACE
  • 2006 B.F.A. in Painting — SPACE, Rai Foundation Group show 'Sanjhe Rang', Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Delhi Annual Exhibition '14 Strokes', Arpana Caur Art Gallery, Delhi
  • 2007 Khoj International Artists' Association — PEERS Residency, Delhi 'Crossing Currents' — paintings & sculptures, Punjab University, Chandigarh Annual Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Chandigarh Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy Scholarship for Young Artists Cleared IELTS (grade 8/9)
  • 2008 M.V.A. in Painting — Gold Medalist, topped with distinction — Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh, Panjab University Group show 'Indian Red', Chandigarh Volunteer in Fluxus performance show with Ben Patterson, NGMA Delhi
  • 2009 Cleared UGC NET & Junior Research Fellowship examination Won French Embassy–Krishnakriti Fellowship (Paris, 2009–10) Project Beingeverywhere with artist Stefan Reibel — Delhi, Benares, Norway
  • 2010 Krishnakriti Fellowship year at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), Paris Portes Ouvertes — two photo installations, Beaux-Arts de Paris Project Human Library, Cité Universitaire Paris Empreinte Mon Accent, Cité Universitaire Paris Exposition atelier Jean-Luc Vilmouth 5.9m², Beaux-Arts de Paris Part of Nevin Aladag's performative work — Saison de la Turquie, Beaux-Arts Video & performance workshop 'Keep Calm and Carry On', Paris Chausette Du Tête, Paris Won grant Fonds Pour Les Initiatives Étudiants, Paris Kitchen Culture of the Shared Kitchens — community art project, Cité Internationale, Paris Invited — Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Japan Artists' Camp, Vizag
  • 2011 NIPAF Performance Art Tour — Yangon/Myanmar, Phnom Penh/Cambodia, Bandung/Indonesia Kalakriti Art Camp, Hyderabad & Krishnakriti Art & Culture Festival
  • 2012 Solo show — Palette Art Gallery, Delhi Belgrade Art Fair — new video art from India Group show 2+2=5, Palette Art Gallery Live Art, Bangalore Sowing Seeds International Artists' Residency, Kaman Art Foundation, Jodhpur
  • 2013 S M Sultan International Art Residency, Bangladesh Art Camp, Konark Summer show & India Art Summit, Palette Art Gallery, Delhi Group show 6×6, Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi HAIL — contemporary young artists, Gallery MNF, Kochi
  • 2014 Visiting Faculty — NIFT Gandhinagar (Visual Systems, Semiotics, Creative Cognition — until 2020) Group show ART MART, Khajuraho Dance Festival India Art Summit, Palette Gallery
  • 2015 Solo show — Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad Krishnakriti Art Residency, Hyderabad India Art Summit (also 2016, 2017)
  • 2017 All Women's National Art Camp, Udaipur
  • 2018 Solo show 'Unwarping Time' — Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Française de Delhi (curated by Shruthi Issac, supported by Raza Foundation) WADE Women Artists & Designers' Exhibition, Delhi Two-person show, Citypulse Gandhinagar Dr. Fischer's Art Project for Peace — Goa, Ahmedabad, Israel Certified Folk Fitness Trainer (India folk dance fitness, Make in India) Taught Yoga, Anapana Vipassana & Pranayama, Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre, Leh, Ladakh Betla Mahotsav (folk fitness & art workshop), Jharkhand
  • 2019 Project Anegundi — mapping heritage, community & sustainable tourism, Hampi, Karnataka WE the 5 group show, Citypulse Gandhinagar Living Waters Museum — virtual exhibition, World Water Day Art Therapy workshop (Violet Oaklander method), Wayanad Yoga & wellness retreats, Hampi and Wayanad
  • 2020 Solo show 'Negotiating Neighborhood — Ambiguous Identities', Gandhinagar Kintsugi: The Ancestral House Project, Jharia, Jharkhand — art & heritage systems experiment Art workshop with coal-digging children, 'Devi — Women Empowerment', Betla Mahotsav, Chase Art Foundation Toxicity — International Alternative Art Symposium, Chitkara University, Punjab Expert guest lecturer, EDII & TGCL Gujarat Tourism
  • 2021 Radbot TechArt Fellowship — AI Bot (DOT) on body shaming (British Council India, Goethe Institute, Dara.network) Flyover Country TechArt Fellowship — AR storytelling in public space (British Council, Jaaga, Befantastic, Kcymaerxthaere) C3 TechArt Fellowship — creative coding, open source (Goethe Institute Mumbai, ZKM Karlsruhe) CMDA Fellowship — Culture Management in the Digital Age (Goethe Institute, Art X Company, Jaaga) PhD Year 1, Anant National University — intangible & tangible cultural heritage and sustainable tourism (with UNESCO Chair Dr. Amareshwar Galla) Public Art residency, Udaipur — community engagement with Bhil & Mina tribes Yajnaseni & Akshaya Patra group shows, International Women's Day
  • 2022 Shodh Scholarship for Research, Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat Indelible Marks 2, curated by Akshat Sinha, Patiala
  • 2024 Public Art Project — 20–30 ft iron sculptures installed at prominent public sites, New Delhi (Ministry of Culture, Lalit Kala Academy) 'Elephant in the Room' — collaboration with Conflictorium, India & Stroom Den Haag, Netherlands Ramayana group show, ICCR at Bikaner House, New Delhi
  • 2025 Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy Grant for international exhibition 'The Distance Between Us' — solo cyanotype exhibition, South Asia Contemporary Art Amsterdam Group exhibition, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam 'Namah Buddha' — group show, Sanchi Stupa, New Delhi Looking with OTHER (M)others residency, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (facilitated by Dr. Ruchika Wason Singh)