Swapnaa Tamhane

Swapnaa Tamhane’s art practice is dedicated to drawing, making handmade paper, and working with materials like cotton and jute. She has an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices, Concordia University, Montreal, where she was an Artist-in-Residence from 2022 to 2024. Residencies have been held at KHOJ @ 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore, and Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, and she was a participant at March Meeting, Sharjah, UAE, in 2010. She has been supported by SSHRC, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (2009), and she was an International Museum Fellow at Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (2013-2014), supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes. In 2019, she was a juror for the Sobey Art Award, Canada, and was most recently on the board of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC), Toronto. Her research extends to material culture, and with designer Rashmi Varma, she wrote SĀR: The Essence of Indian Design, Phaidon Press (2016). She has exhibited her work at Green Art Gallery, Dubai; Nature Morte, Delhi; articule, Montreal; Sculpture Park Jaipur; A Space, Toronto; and Victoria & Albert Museum, Dundee, Scotland, with solo exhibitions at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia.