About The Artist
Srinia Chowdhury is a Delhi-based artist with a Fine Arts degree from the College of Art, Delhi, and a Master’s degree in Sculpture (Bronze) from the Government College of Art and Craft.
Her work focuses on the tension between personal and socially constructed identities. Working with ceramics as her core medium, she draws from Indian art, mythology, folktales, and popular visual culture to build narrative-driven sculptural works that move between humour, satire, and the phantasmagoria.
Her practice has been shaped through a range of sponsored residencies and symposiums across China, Germany, Australia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, and Latvia, contributing to her evolving engagement with contemporary ceramics. She was the first resident artist in a collaboration between the Indian Ceramics Triennale and Art Ichol, Madhya Pradesh.
Her work has been exhibited at Art of India (2026) and the India Design Fair (2024, 2025), and is part of the collection of the Rothko Museum, Latvia. She received the Jyotsna Bhatt Ceramics Award in 2022 and is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (2025). Recent milestones include a fully funded residency at Taoxichuan Art Avenue, Jingdezhen (2025), and participation as a demonstrator at the Australian Ceramics Triennale, Perth (2025). Since 2024, she has been part of Anant Art Gallery’s STUDIO CATALYST program.
While ceramics remains central to her practice, her sculptural language continues to expand across materials, processes, and forms.
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Guilty Pleasure - Procrastination
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Biggest Fear - Injections
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What makes me happy - Mom, Food and Home
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Most Inspiring Trip - Egypt
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Bucket list - To own a studio of my own
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My Favorite Cartoon - Shinchan
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Hobby- Cooking & rolling on the bed!
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Artist Statement
My work primarily focuses on the tension between personal and socially constructed identities—between who we are and the identities we inherit, perform, and become under social expectations. Drawing from personal experience and observation, I reflect on self-perception and how we come to see ourselves through the eyes of others.
I love to primarily work with ceramics because it allows me to sculpt, draw, and paint in a single medium. Inspired by Indian art, mythology, folktales, and popular visual culture for their layered characters, symbols, and storytelling, I reinterpret familiar stories and imagery through allegory to create narrative-driven works that move between humour, satire, and phantasmagoria.
My work acknowledges vulnerability, celebrates resilience, and gives form to the complexities of being human. Although my figures are surreal and theatrical, they remain rooted in recognisable human experiences while embodying the contradictions that shape human identity.
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