Ruchita Madhok India, b. 1984

Ruchita Madhok (b.1984, New Delhi, India) completed her B.Des., Communication Design, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, 2006 and M.A., Scenography, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, 2010. Her works have been exhibited in group shows for printmakers at Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai 2025, Apre Art House, Mumbai, 2023, Fluxus Chapel, Mumbai, 2022 and Chennai Photo Biennale, 2023, 2022. She has previously been awarded the Arthink South Asia Fellowship, 2013 and the UnBox Fellowship, 2012. She has been an artist in residence at Spacehouse Artist Residency programme, Satoli, Uttarakhand and the Inteatro Residency in Polverigi, Italy, 2010. She conducts cyanotype workshops besides running a design firm, Kahani. 

Ruchita explores photography as a means of recording light, not just as a form of image-making, but as a way of capturing the impression of light as it travels through the world interacting with surface, material, texture and shape. Through the practice of historical photographic techniques she traces the evidence of these journeys with lens-based and camera-less methods, deploying the alchemy of earth, air, sunlight and water to speak to the universal sensations of awe and wonder. In her hands paper, fabric, wood and stone become registers of time and place, season and change, mixing memory with speculation. She applies the emotional, cultural and historic associations of blue-ness to the expressions of sea, sky and water, using sunlight as a catalyst in the conception and execution of works. She is deeply influenced by modernist design, Vedanta and cosmology.

Ruchita Madhok lives and works in Mumbai, Maharashtra,  India.