Avantika Bawa

St. Brigid's Center for the Arts
( Jan. 7th-19th, 2012 )

Avantika Bawa is an artist, curator, and educator with an MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998) and a BFA in the same from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India (1995). She was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2008) the Vermont Studio Center, VT (2009), Milepost 5, Portland, OR (2010) and Jentel Artist Residency Program, WY (2010).

Note worthy exhibits include; solos at The Columbus Museum, Columbus GA; Saltworks Gallery and the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; Lalit Kala Academy and Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India; Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India; Disjecta, Portland State University, Portland, OR; The South by East Biennial in Boca Raton, FL; and juried group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, GA, The Drawing Center and Smack Mellon, NY and SAVAC, Canada. Blue (Oil), her upcoming show at Suyama Space, Seattle, WA, will open in May 2012. Her works has been reviewed in international publications such as The New York Times, Art Papers, Art Lies, Art India, Art Asia Pacific, The Oregonian, and The Times of India amongst others.

Bawa's curatorial work began with a hotel room show during the Art in Chicago fair (98') and has grown through her studio and gallery, aquaspace – a laboratory for new and multi media art. In April 2004 she was part of a team that launched Drain - Journal for Contemporary Art and Culture www.drainmag.com.

She is currently Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University, Vancouver, WA.

www.avantikabawa.net