• The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - Masters of Fine Arts Program, Painting and Drawing

• MSU (Maharaja Sayajirao University), Baroda, India - Bachelors of Fine Arts Program, Painting, Drawing, Art History

• Alliance Francais, Baroda, India- Level 1 French

• CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Siene, France

• UNIDEE, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy - awarded full fellowship by ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA grant.

• Ecomuseo Ronce Biellese, Awarded Second prize in Ceramic design to put into production and revive local industry

• Camargo Foundation, Residency, Cassis, France

• Sculpture Space, Residency, Utica, NY - funded largely by Richard Driehaus Artist's fund

• Illinois Arts Council, Artists Fellowship Award- “in recognition of outstanding work and commitment within the arts”

• Illinois Arts Council, Special assistance Grant to fund Project “Interlude Oasis”, New York City

• Catwalk, Catskills NY, residency

• Richard H. Driehaus Foundation , Individual Artist award and grant -
  " to support & encourage excellence, artistry, focus, direction, maturity, and originality in the visual arts"

• Skowhegan School of painting and sculpture - Fully funded residency with “Matching Fellow Scholarship” 

• Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT - First prize for National Exhibition. Juror - Susanna Coffey

• The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  - “Second year graduate student scholarship"
  -“Leadership Certificate”
  -"MFA Fellowship" - awarded to a graduating Master in Fine Arts Student.
  

• "Ox-Bow Scholarship", to attend Oxbow school/ residency Saugatuck, Michigan

• MSU (Maharaja Sayajirao University), Baroda, India
  -“Merit Scholarship” - for ranking First in the entire BFA batch 2000- 2001
  -“Ela Desai Merit Scholarship” for ranking First in the entire BFA batch 1999-2000
  

• “Peel Till They Bloom” Kashya Hildebrand Gallerie, Zurich, Switzerland

• "Mapping the Memory Mandala", Camargo Foundation, France

• "Mapping the Studio", Sculpture Space, Utica, NY

• “Lumps, Bumps and Things that are Art” Van Harrison Gallery, New York, NY
• "Average Utopia", performance, Catwalk, Catskills, NY

• “elsewHERE” Halsey Gallery, Charleston, SC

• “Absence and Extension” Sub-City Projects, Chicago, IL

• “Flux”, 12 by 12, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

• “Flaw”, National Prize Winning show , Creative Arts Workshop , New Haven, CT

• “Void”, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, IL

• “Memory Threads”, Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy
•  “Indian Art Summit”, New Delhi, India

• “Engendered”, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
• “Outer Circle”, Arts I, New Delhi, India
• “Nature and the City”, Indian Habitat Center, New Delhi, India
  

• “Art Cologne”, Cologne, Germany
• “Art Shanghai”, Shanghai , China

• “Double Consciousness”, Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburg, PA
• Interiority, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, Curator: Stuart Keeler
• Us and our Katamari, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
  
  

• Interlude, “Art in Odd Places”, New York, NY

• “Think Small”, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, Springfield & Lockport, IL - Traveling Show, Curator: Robert Sill

• “Drawn Out”, Gallery 400, Chicago IL
• “Remembering Memories”, Zola Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL - Curator: Mathew Goebel
• “Art Chicago”, Van Harrison Gallery, Chicago, IL

• “Combine”, Lake Forest, IL - Curator: Karen Lebergott

• “New Science Fiction”, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL

• “New American Talent”, 19 Annual Exhibition, Austin, TX -Traveling show, Juror: Jerry Saltz
• Stray show, Chicago, IL
• “DFP”, One Quarterly, Chicago IL
• "Urban Inscription", Gallery 2, Chicago, IL 

   

• “Desire Lines”, Richard Dadd gallery, Twin Cities, MN
• “Movement”, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
• Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
• Art Hotel, Embassy suites, Chicago, IL
• MFA Thesis Show, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
• "Transience", Polvo Gallery, Pilsen, Chicago, IL
• “Paying Attention”, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT -National Juried Exhibition, Juror - Susanna Coffey 
• "Art Windows", Tiffany and Co, Chicago, IL - Made an art installation for the Tiffany and Co windows.

• "Art Windows", Lester Lampert, Chicago, IL

• “The Clune Construction Show”, Chicago, IL

   

• “Savvy.coif”, Chicago, IL

• B.F.A. Thesis Show, Baroda, India

• “Still Life” group show, Mumbai, India

• ITC Welcomgroup, Chennai, India

SELECTED PRESS

• “Younger than Jesus”, New Museum catalogue, New York, USA
• “Nature and the City” Catalogue, New Delhi, India
• “Unidee in Progress” Catalogue, Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy
• “Rajasthan Patrika”, India
• “Bhaskaran”, India

• “La Provence”, review by Michele Lang, France
• “Tages Anzeiger”, Zuritipp, review, Switzerland
• “Drainmag” online magazine, GA, USA
• "Engendered" Catalogue, New York, NY
• "Outer Circle" Catalogue, New Delhi, India

• WHPK Radio Interview, Chicago, IL
• “Interiority” catalogue

• “Village Voice” critic’s pick and review by R.C. Baker
• Artlovers, New York, review by Nancy Smith
• ArtCal, New York, Critic’s pick

• “Richard Driehaus Awards” catalogue - essay by Kathryn Hixon (Previous editor of New Art Examiner)

• "Think Small" Illinois State Museum catalogue

• Charleston City Paper, critical review by Nick Smith

• "Chicago Tribune", critical review by Fred Camper
• “Panel –House”, critical review
• "The Austin Chronicle”, critical review by Robi Polgar
• “Shoreline”, New England, critical review
• “Sound”, New England, critical review
• “New Haven Register”, critical review on solo show "Flaw"
• "SAIC Graduate catalogue", 2004
• Critics Choice, "Newscity" for solo show "Flux", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• “New American Talent”, Catalogue
• “The Daily Northwestern”, critical review by Ryan Wenzel

• Chicago Art Critics Association, Critical review by Polly Ulrich
• Regulator Magazine, Critical review by Maggie Bogdanich
• Newscity, Critical review by Michael Workman
• Void, catalolgue essay by John Corbett
• Gazette, U.I.C. (University of Illinois, Chicago), review
• F News Magazine, review
• “New Haven Register”, critical review by Judy Birke

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Mentor, residency for Arts I “Thewhynotplace”, New Delhi, India - including content development, jurying, residency co-ordination and online mentoring

• Mentor, residency for Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Council, Meherangarh Fort, India - including content development, jurying, curating the projects in the fort

• The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  -Instructor, First Year Program - Painting and Drawing, Research Studio seminar
  -Instructor, Early College Program - Figure Drawing, Advanced Oil Painting, Advanced Drawing,
  

• Ox-bow (SAIC), Saugatuck Michigan- Instructor: "Natural Graffiti" - Site Specific Installation

• Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL - Instructor - Figure Drawing, Portraiture

• The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  - Instructor, Multi-level Figure Drawing
  - Instructor, Art History Survey : Ancient to Modern
  - Instructor, Art History Survey : Modern to Contemporary
  

RELATED EXPERIENCE

• Curator, "Thewhynotplace", Arts I, New Delhi
• Caltalogue Writing - 16 artists- "The whynotplace", Arts I, New Delhi
• Interviewer - KHOJ BOOK
  

• Guest Speaker, MSU (Maharaja Sayajirao University), Baroda, India
• Artists’ Advisor, Peers Residency, Khoj, Delhi, India
  

• Designed and Executed a Mural and interactive game zone, 32nd Milestone, Delhi, India
• Museum of Natural History, Guest Speaker, “Mapping the American Landscape”, Chicago Humanities Festival
• Museum Guest Speaker, Art institute of Chicago for Artists Connect - Lecture on connections between my work and Richard Tuttle

• Visiting Artist/ Member of Final Critique panel, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
• Juror, “At the Edge”, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL

• Member of Honors Committee for BA graduate, Knox University, Galesburg, IL

• Visiting Artist, Don Nash Community Center, Chicago, IL - Polymer clay workshops with Children
• Visiting Artist/ Lecturer, Malcolm X college, Chicago, IL

• Curatorial intern, Department of Prints and Drawings, Museum - The Art Institute of Chicago
• Member of panel to critique Graduate students, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  
• Juror/ Member of review committee for incoming Graduate students, Painting and Drawing Department, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Wrote/ Published Catalgue essay on Ho Yun Son - Artist, Seoul, Korea
• Wrote/ Published review on Jeff Carter, “Regulator magazine”,

   

• International student orientation leader.
• “Roundup” magazine, Wrote/ Published review on Judith Geichman

• Baroda, India, theatre group “Playhouse” - Acting, script writing, set designing

SELECTED WORKSHOPS

• Frescos, Skowhegan, Maine - creating a fresco and all the necessary layers of plaster, pigments etc.

• Glass casting, Ox-bow, Michigan [Hank Murta Adams]
• Glassblowing, Ox-bow, Michigan [Jerry Catania]
• Bookmaking, Ox-bow, Michigan [Andrea Peterson]
• Papermaking, Ox-bow, Michigan [Andrea Peterson]

• Ceramics and glazes, Pondicherry, India [Ray Meekar and Sandy Brown]
• Ceramic Murals Workshop, Baroda, India [Daroz]

LANGUAGES

• Fluent/ Native : English, Hindi, Punjabi

• Basic knowledge : French, Italian, Sanskrit