b. 1987, Madurai, India Live & work in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Education & Training
2017 Block printing internship, Gitto Studio, Jaipur, India
2010 - 2013 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, Painting and Drawing, Chicago, IL, USA
2006 - 2009 University College London, BSc Mathematics with Economics, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Tiger Balm & Other Boxes, Martha van Rensselaer Gallery, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (October 23rd - November 15th)
Group Exhibitions
2022 Online Show, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY, USA (July 7th) a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. Kal / fragments from a collective archive, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2021 Open Studio: House of Kal, CoCA Symbiosis, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2020 Invite Only, Inadequate Lighting, Baltimore, MD, USA
2019 Open Studios, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK London Summer Intensive: Work in Progress, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
2017 Expanded Field of Drawing – Recent Works, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2015 The Landscape Changes 30 Times, Anahita Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran Between the Lines, Gallery 19, Chicago, IL, USA
2013 Acts of Gravitas, Eyeporium Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA SAIC Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA Filter-ing, HQ Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA I'm Not There, John M. Flaxman Library, Chicago, IL, USA
2011 Bring a Light Wrap, Galerie AVU, Prague, Czech Republic Listen/Haslouchat, 30 Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Artist-in-residence
2021 House of Kal, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2020 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA, USA
2019 AARK (Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo,) Korpo, Finland Olo Center, Enonkoski, Finland London Summer Intensive, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
Workshops & Publications
2022 Workshop: Sewing and Embroidery with artists Sabeen Omar and Shahdia Jamaldeen, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Colombo, Sri Lanka Wearing Emotions by Alke: Beading Workshop, Hatch Works, Colombo, Sri Lanka Beading Creatures with Sabeen Omar, Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2021 Talking hands with Hema Shironi and Sabeen Omar, CoCA Symbiosis, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2017 Re-Imagining Ceylon: Contemporary Artists from Sri Lanka, Imago Mundi Sri Lanka for The Luciano Benetton Collection
2013 Interviewed with Gabriella Brown for F Newsmagazine