Tara Aliya Kesavan Indian, b. 1994

Tara Aliya Kesavan (b.1994, New Delhi, India) received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts, Hunter College, CUNY (2024) and an M.A. in Mass Communications, Jamia Millia Islamia (2017). 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).

Her current body of work comprises paintings and ceramic-video sculptures. Her paintings draw from public and personal records from the early decades of independent India, showing women at work in laboratories, broadcast studios and offices. She unhooks these images from their archival context, looking past narrative to the quiet intensity of the women within them. Her figures’ attentive presence — expressed through touch, focus, and careful acts of looking — carries into her ceramic-video sculptures, where screens are embedded into hand-built forms. Part interface, part vessel, they invite a softer, more physical relationship with technology.

Tara lives and works in Goa, India.