Formed from Indian heritage, an American identity, and spiritualized visions of personal story and memory, my paintings become visual experiences as a result of a repetitive excavatory process, seeking meaning, truth and an eventual acceptance with our mortality. Born in New Jersey into a musical Indian family, I began playing instruments around the house, learning by ear and watching my parents perform at concerts. My urge to compose music early in life paralleled my desire to create visual environments. Producing drawings and paintings was a way to manifest and inhabit my visions to which music had played as an ongoing soundtrack. Both my music and art have been strongly influenced by my bicultural upbringing as well as the surrounding rural American landscapes of my childhood. My paintings have been presented in numerous national and international exhibitions including, most notably, Personal Structures, at the 2019 Venice Biennale. I am a 2019 recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, and I was recently commissioned by Facebook’s Artist in Residence Program as well as Square, Inc. for large-scale public installations. My paintings are in many collections including the public collections of Kaiser Permanente and the Rainin Foundation, and I have recently been awarded the Herz Recreation Center Public Art Project through the San Francisco Arts Commission. As an educator, I have taught Advanced Painting Studio in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley as well as Visual Arts in a K-8 independent school in Oakland, California. I hold a BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia, and an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute.