Artist Biography
I am an artist with multiple professional identities including as an art therapist, educator, and researcher in healthcare and community settings. Living out my research interests, I have been a lifelong visual artist and my art explores the intersection of identity and representation of emotion. My visual aesthetic is deeply inspired by nature and textiles. In particular, my roots as a textile designer in India inform my aesthetics and color preferences. By actively engaging in art making practices ourselves, I highlight the importance of arts-based heuristic exploration as a valid resource to encourage compassion and effective communication amongst individuals and groups. Through our private and collaborative creative works, I explore and honor these social intersections to hold the unity of opposites, question normative points of view, promote compassion, invite positive emotions, and identify art making as a viable resource for one’s own healing.
Exhibitions & Shows
Creative Arts Therapies 50th anniversary (2024)
Exhibition at Pearlstein gallery
Learning from COVID art exhibit (2022)
Florida State University
Flora (2021)
Group exhibition at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Hospital
Silent Screams (2021)
Online exhibition on artwork representing the COVID-19 pandemic
Villa Maria Academy (2019)
Malvern, PA
Art at The Civic (2019)
Curated permanent collection. Philadelphia, PA.
PORTALS: Arts, Health and Well-Being (2018-2019)
Group exhibition and lecture, Esther Klein Gallery. Philadelphia, PA.
Artwork in Parkway Health and Wellness
Drexel University
H1B (January 2014)
Exhibition in collaboration with the Smithsonian Asian and Pacific American Center and Twelve gates Arts.
Hudson Valley Seed Library
Featured Artist, Bread Poppy Art pack: one of 20 artists selected from over 200 submissions
The Art of the Heirloom Exhibition (2012-2013)
The Seedbank Heirloom Expo (September 2012), Petaluma, CA
Arts Center of the Capital Region (January 2013), Troy, NY
The Horticultural Society (February, 2013), New York, NY
Philadelphia Flower Show (March 2013), Philadelphia, PA
Art for Science Sake
Los Alamos, NM
Art in City Hall (March 2013)
Library of Life exhibition: one of 40 artists selected from over 200 submissions
Interconnections: The Art of Social Change (March 2013)
Asian Arts Initiative. Philadelphia, PA.
Art for Science Sake Exhibition (2012)
Finalist. Los Alamos, NM.
American Art Therapy Association
Donated and sold artwork to the American Art Therapy Association student scholarship fundraiser.
Abington Memorial Hospital Community art show (2001)
Best in Show
