Tara Aliya Kesavan Indian, b. 1994

Tara Aliya Kesavan (b.1994, New Delhi, India) received an M.A. in Mass Communications, Jamia Millia Islamia (2017), and MFA in Integrated Media Arts, Hunter College, CUNY (2024). Her work has been shown at two-person exhibitions at Transmitter, NYC (2024), UnionDocs, NYC (2024) and Locust Projects, Miami (2022). She’s been part of group shows at the Center for Performance Research, NYC (2023) and M+ Museum, Kowloon (2019). She was awarded Culture Push’s Fellowship for Utopian Practice (2023).

Kesavan works across painting, sculpture and video. Her current body of work explores how Indian womanhood has been imagined in popular culture across time. Focusing on fleeting gestures and stillness, she reworks familiar images to draw out the inner lives of her subjects. Her figures move between real and virtual environments, interacting with objects and technologies that quietly organize their worlds.

Tara lives and works in Goa, India.