Online Residency 2021

Education

2015 – College of Art, New Delhi, India – Bachelors in Fine arts

2018 – Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston USA – Masters in Fine Arts

Biography

I am an artist based in New Delhi, India. I have been a fellow artist at residencies like Salem Art Works in upstate New York, USA, UCROSS Foundation in Wyoming USA and L’Air Arts foundation in Paris, France. My work is a hybrid of various artistic disciplines like painting, contemporary printmaking, installation and sculpture.

Artist statement

My work finds its conceptual roots in what I experienced during my undergraduate studies in India. The conventional methods of creating and structuring art that I was taught, led me to introspect upon what I really wanted to achieve as an artist. The exaggerated size of the work I produced during my Master’s in Boston, was a consequence of the importance of freedom that I had previously craved as an artist. I started playing around, I wanted my paintings to break free from their frames and crawl out of the walls surrounding them. I wanted them to flow with the wind moving around them and breathe along with those observing. This desire for experimentation was what, I believe, led to a paradigm shift in the way that I started thinking about my studio practice. My studio practice plays a vital role in determining both process and image that come together at different points of time in between stages of my creative process. I have created site-specific as well as site-responsive works that weave into the architectural network in that particular space. Attempting to integrate both the nuances of the site and my paintings, processing and thinking about how the internal (studio) and external (gallery spaces, abandoned spaces where I have exhibited in the past) change the meaning and the dialogue in my work. I see my paintings outside my studio as very alive beings stepping into the real world, intimidated and sometimes interactive with a space, weaving in and out of the complexities and convolutions that are attached to it. The collaged drawings in space rely on one another for support and transition. The translucent washes and large scale layering question the existence of walls as traditional support structures in an art exhibition. “ In many ways I consider my process as content and believe that the experience of making of the work must no longer be separated from the experience of viewing of the work in the space that it is shown in.”

Links

Website: Mahima Kapoor – Just another WordPress site

Abstract resonance at NGMA-women’s show (indiatimes.com)

Mahima Kapoor Launched International Art Career With a MassArt MFA (hyperallergic.com)