Heena Pari
Heena Pari is a New York–based artist from Mumbai and Bengaluru, India. Her multidisciplinary practice
spans drawing, painting, digital art, video, and installation. Repetition and mark-making operate as grounding,
near-therapeutic gestures—holding the self together across domestic and artistic life. Rooted in the
day-to-day experiences of domesticity, her work reflects on identity, labour, care, community, and belonging.
Her recent textile works explore ideas of home and displacement. She holds a degree in Printmaking from the
College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru.
Heena Pari
New York/ Bangalore
b.1977, Mumbai
Education
2008 BFA in Printmaking, College of Fine Art, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore
1997 B.Com, Bhavan’s College, Mumbai
Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘Cocooning’, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore
2017 ‘Breaking the Pattern’, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore
Group Exhibitions
2024 ‘All About Play (and other Philosophies)’, curated by Lina Vincent, Varija Gallery, Dakshina Chitra Museum, Chennai
2023 ‘A bit warmer each year’, curated by Manasa Raj and Arpitha RG, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore
2023 ‘Student Salon’, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York
2023 ‘I Rise Edition IX’, Art Houz Gallery, Bangalore
2022 ‘Living a Dark Night’, curated by Paula Sengupta, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore; India Art Fair, New Delhi; Artshila, Santiniketan; Artshila, Ahmedabad; Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda; Kolkata Centre for Creativity, Kolkata; Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2021 ‘Drawing The Line’, an exhibition of Karnataka based artists curated by Rama Sharma, Bangalore
2021 ‘Living a Dark Night’, a printmaking show curated by Paula Sengupta (Online)
2020 ‘Colours of Life’, a show for charity with Cancer Patients Aid Association, Mumbai (Online)
2020 ‘Small is Beautiful’, Kynkyny Art Gallery, Bangalore (Online)
2020 ‘What is Tomorrow’, an exhibition for charity curated by Lina Vincent and Samyuktha Rao, Taj West End, Bangalore
2019 ‘Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival’, curated by Sandbox Collective, Ranga Shankara, Bangalore
2019 ‘Goa Affordable Art Fest’, Museum of Goa, Goa
2018 ‘I Rise Edition IV’, Art Houz Gallery, Bangalore
2017 ‘Traversing Experiences’, public art installation curated by Manasa Raj and Shaunak Mahbubani, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan
2008 ‘Drushyotsava Graduation Show’, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore
Articles
2023 1Shanthiroad: Twenty years of democratising art and stirring artistic diversity in Bengaluru by Shailaja Tripathi
2022 Artist talks about ‘Cocooning’ by Aamirah Thayibah
2022 Quick Chat on ‘Cocooning’ by Anagha M
2022 Silent Wail of Despair by Soumitra Das
2017 Breaking the Lines by Shailaja Tripathi
2017 What you see when you see: Her creative canvas breaks all patterns by Suresh Jayaram
2017 Homemakers aren’t idlers, says artist, in black & white by Regina Gurung
2017 Celebrating womanhood through art by Reema Gowalla
2017 Traversing Experiences by Shaunak Mahbubani
2017 This art gallery will come to you! by Darshana Ramdev