Of the ground, The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug in 2022
Where Should The Plants Sleep After the Last Breath of Air? - an online solo project hosted by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2021
Transplant , Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda in 2018
Group Exhibitions:
Travelling Plants, Goethe Zentrum, Hyderabad in 2025
Travelling Plants, Alliance Française of Madras, Chennai, Indian Museum Kolkata, and Pune in 2024
Sutr Santati: Then. Now. Next, Celebrating India through contemporary handmade textiles, NGMA, Mumbai in 2024
Delhi Contemporary Art Week Show represented by Gallery Espace, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2024
Womanifesto: Flowing Connections, Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok in 2023
Delhi Contemporary Art Week Show represented by Gallery Espace, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2023
Delhi Contemporary Art Week Show represented by Gallery Espace, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2022
The Chaos Trilogy, Part 1: Disorder Under Heaven, The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug in 2022
Past-Present-Continuous, 25 Years of Guild, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2022
India Art Fair, New Delhi presented by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2022
Abu Dhabi Art, UAE presented by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2021
Notes, Documents & Processes, an online exhibition at Hyderabad Literary Festival in 2021
‘Voices from the Courtyard’, Womanifesto exhibited at the Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial, organized by the Art Museum of Guangzhou in 2020
Mindful Circulations, curated by Kerstin Winking, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai in 2019
Imagining a forest, Museum Of Conflict, Ahmedabad in 2018
Interlude- I, Knots Annual Show, Baroda in 2018
Morphology of Archive: Connected Histories of Goa, MOG, Museum of Goa Contemporary arts, Goa in 2016
Papyrus Indic, Mayfair Art Gallery, Baroda in 2015
Story Ltd, Saffron Art Gallery, for a period of one year, Online Show in 2014-15
Inscription on the Surface of the Transitory Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda in 2014
Fluid The Site, GIDC, Baroda in 2013
India Art Fair New Delhi in 2013
Presence Absence Kochi Muziris Biennale Collateral, Kochi in 2013
Baroda March 2012, Coomaraswamy Hall, Mumbai, Group Show. 2011 Black Drizzle, State Art Gallery, Guwahati, Assam in 2012
Subject-Object, Gallery Ragini, Lado Sarai, New Delhi in 2011
Three person group show at Gallery-3, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2011
Portraiture at Kottayam, Kerala in 2011
Baroda Marathon at ABS Gallery, Baroda in 2011
Black and White in the Horizon at Gallery Beyond, Mumbai in 2011
Black and White in the Horizon, Preview at Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda in 2010
The Strand Art Room, Mumbai in 2010
Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda in 2010
Multitudes, in Durbar hall Kochi and Max Muller Bhavan, Bengaluru in 2009
Pachmarhi Camp Works, Faculty of fine arts gallery Baroda in 2008
Camps and Workshops:
Conducted a Botanical Illustrations workshop with students and art teachers from Stella Maris College, Chennai in 2024
Conducted Exploring Cyanotype Techniques, a workshop for the Artist’s Collective Remembering Nasreen in Baroda in 2022
Conducted Documenting the Ephemeral for The Art Room, a collateral event for Kochi Muziris Biennale in 2019
Conducted a paper-making workshop for Eco Artists Residency organized by Green The Blue Charitable Trust, Vadodara in 2019
Residencies:
Invited for Travelling Plants, a month long residency at the Institute of French Pondicherry (IFP), a collaborative project initiated by Goethe Institute of Chennai and Alliance Française of Madras, Chennai in 2024
To study the official colonial records of botanical survey of in India at the National Archives of India and to explore the flora of Delhi Ridge, New Delhi in 2023
Documenting the ground plants of Alibaug, Raigad District of Maharashtra in 2022
Rashmimala’s artistic practice merges botanical research with the tradition of botanical illustration. Her work explores the stories of survival, migration, and existence of ground and urban ruderal plants, delving into their anecdotal
Rashmimala’s artistic practice merges botanical research with the tradition of botanical illustration. Her work explores the stories of survival, migration, and existence of ground and urban ruderal plants, delving into their anecdotal histories. In an investigative manner, she documents the plants, questioning their relationships to the world around them. Her solo exhibitions include of the ground at The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug (2022), Where Should The Plants Sleep After the Last Breath of Air?, an online project by The Guild (2021), and transplant at Nazar Art Gallery, Vadodara (2018). Rashmimala’s recent group exhibitions include Travelling Plants at Goethe Zentrum, Hyderabad, Alliance Française of Madras, and Indian Museum Kolkata (2024), Sutr Santati: Then. Now. Next at NGMA, Mumbai (2024), Womanifesto: Flowing Connections at Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre (2023), Delhi Contemporary Art Week at Bikaner House, New Delhi (2023 and 2022), Past-Present-Continuous at Bikaner House (2022), and the India Art Fair (2022) and Abu Dhabi Art (2021) both presented by The Guild. Additionally, she participated in Notes, Documents & Processes at Hyderabad Literary Festival (2021), Mindful Circulations at Bhau Daji Lad Museum (2019), and Morphology of Archive – Connected Histories of Goa at Museum of Goa (2016). Rashmimala has taken part in several artist camps and workshops, including Voices from the Courtyard (2020) for the Trans Southeast Asia Triennial in Guangzhou. She regularly leads workshops, with recent ones on Botanical Illustrations at Stella Maris College, Chennai (2024) and Cyanotype Techniques in Baroda (2022). Alongside her artistic practice, Rashmimala has worked on archiving projects for prominent artists like Jyoti Bhatt and Nilima Sheikh.
Academics
MFA in Art History Dissertation (2002): Revival of Revivalism, a critical approach to conceptualise the early twentieth century Revivalist language in contemporary practice.
MFA in Painting Dissertation (2000): THE SECOND SKIN, a documentation of woven textiles of the Rabha community of North East.
BFA in Painting (1998)
Awards
National Scholarship from HRD Govt. of India (1998 to 2000)
Merit Scholarship from Directorate of Assam cultural Affairs, Assam, India (1994 to 1998)
Rashmimala’s artistic practice merges botanical research with the tradition of botanical illustration. Her work explores the stories of survival, migration, and existence of ground and urban ruderal plants, delving into their anecdotal histories. In an investigative manner, she documents the
Rashmimala’s artistic practice merges botanical research with the tradition of botanical illustration. Her work explores the stories of survival, migration, and existence of ground and urban ruderal plants, delving into their anecdotal histories. In an investigative manner, she documents the plants, questioning their relationships to the world around them. Her solo exhibitions include of the ground at The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug (2022), Where Should The Plants Sleep After the Last Breath of Air?, an online project by The Guild (2021), and transplant at Nazar Art Gallery, Vadodara (2018). Rashmimala’s recent group exhibitions include Travelling Plants at Goethe Zentrum, Hyderabad, Alliance Française of Madras, and Indian Museum Kolkata (2024), Sutr Santati: Then. Now. Next at NGMA, Mumbai (2024), Womanifesto: Flowing Connections at Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre (2023), Delhi Contemporary Art Week at Bikaner House, New Delhi (2023 and 2022), Past-Present-Continuous at Bikaner House (2022), and the India Art Fair (2022) and Abu Dhabi Art (2021) both presented by The Guild. Additionally, she participated in Notes, Documents & Processes at Hyderabad Literary Festival (2021), Mindful Circulations at Bhau Daji Lad Museum (2019), and Morphology of Archive – Connected Histories of Goa at Museum of Goa (2016). Rashmimala has taken part in several artist camps and workshops, including Voices from the Courtyard (2020) for the Trans Southeast Asia Triennial in Guangzhou. She regularly leads workshops, with recent ones on Botanical Illustrations at Stella Maris College, Chennai (2024) and Cyanotype Techniques in Baroda (2022). Alongside her artistic practice, Rashmimala has worked on archiving projects for prominent artists like Jyoti Bhatt and Nilima Sheikh.
Academics
MFA in Art History Dissertation (2002): Revival of Revivalism, a critical approach to conceptualise the early twentieth century Revivalist language in contemporary practice.
MFA in Painting Dissertation (2000): THE SECOND SKIN, a documentation of woven textiles of the Rabha community of North East.
BFA in Painting (1998)
Awards
National Scholarship from HRD Govt. of India (1998 to 2000)
Merit Scholarship from Directorate of Assam cultural Affairs, Assam, India (1994 to 1998)
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions:
Of the ground, The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug in 2022
Where Should The Plants Sleep After the Last Breath of Air? - an online solo project hosted by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2021
Transplant , Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda in 2018
Group Exhibitions:
Travelling Plants, Goethe Zentrum, Hyderabad in 2025
Travelling Plants, Alliance Française of Madras, Chennai, Indian Museum Kolkata, and Pune in 2024
Sutr Santati: Then. Now. Next, Celebrating India through contemporary handmade textiles, NGMA, Mumbai in 2024
Delhi Contemporary Art Week Show represented by Gallery Espace, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2024
Womanifesto: Flowing Connections, Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok in 2023
Delhi Contemporary Art Week Show represented by Gallery Espace, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2023
Delhi Contemporary Art Week Show represented by Gallery Espace, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2022
The Chaos Trilogy, Part 1: Disorder Under Heaven, The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug in 2022
Past-Present-Continuous, 25 Years of Guild, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2022
India Art Fair, New Delhi presented by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2022
Abu Dhabi Art, UAE presented by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2021
Notes, Documents & Processes, an online exhibition at Hyderabad Literary Festival in 2021
‘Voices from the Courtyard’, Womanifesto exhibited at the Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial, organized by the Art Museum of Guangzhou in 2020
Mindful Circulations, curated by Kerstin Winking, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai in 2019
Imagining a forest, Museum Of Conflict, Ahmedabad in 2018
Interlude- I, Knots Annual Show, Baroda in 2018
Morphology of Archive: Connected Histories of Goa, MOG, Museum of Goa Contemporary arts, Goa in 2016
Papyrus Indic, Mayfair Art Gallery, Baroda in 2015
Story Ltd, Saffron Art Gallery, for a period of one year, Online Show in 2014-15
Inscription on the Surface of the Transitory Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda in 2014
Fluid The Site, GIDC, Baroda in 2013
India Art Fair New Delhi in 2013
Presence Absence Kochi Muziris Biennale Collateral, Kochi in 2013
Baroda March 2012, Coomaraswamy Hall, Mumbai, Group Show. 2011 Black Drizzle, State Art Gallery, Guwahati, Assam in 2012
Subject-Object, Gallery Ragini, Lado Sarai, New Delhi in 2011
Three person group show at Gallery-3, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2011
Portraiture at Kottayam, Kerala in 2011
Baroda Marathon at ABS Gallery, Baroda in 2011
Black and White in the Horizon at Gallery Beyond, Mumbai in 2011
Black and White in the Horizon, Preview at Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda in 2010
The Strand Art Room, Mumbai in 2010
Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda in 2010
Multitudes, in Durbar hall Kochi and Max Muller Bhavan, Bengaluru in 2009
Pachmarhi Camp Works, Faculty of fine arts gallery Baroda in 2008
Camps and Workshops:
Conducted a Botanical Illustrations workshop with students and art teachers from Stella Maris College, Chennai in 2024
Conducted Exploring Cyanotype Techniques, a workshop for the Artist’s Collective Remembering Nasreen in Baroda in 2022
Conducted Documenting the Ephemeral for The Art Room, a collateral event for Kochi Muziris Biennale in 2019
Conducted a paper-making workshop for Eco Artists Residency organized by Green The Blue Charitable Trust, Vadodara in 2019
Residencies:
Invited for Travelling Plants, a month long residency at the Institute of French Pondicherry (IFP), a collaborative project initiated by Goethe Institute of Chennai and Alliance Française of Madras, Chennai in 2024
To study the official colonial records of botanical survey of in India at the National Archives of India and to explore the flora of Delhi Ridge, New Delhi in 2023
Documenting the ground plants of Alibaug, Raigad District of Maharashtra in 2022
Of the ground, The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug in 2022
Where Should The Plants Sleep After the Last Breath of Air? - an online solo project hosted by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2021
Transplant , Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda in 2018
Group Exhibitions:
Travelling Plants, Goethe Zentrum, Hyderabad in 2025
Travelling Plants, Alliance Française of Madras, Chennai, Indian Museum Kolkata, and Pune in 2024
Sutr Santati: Then. Now. Next, Celebrating India through contemporary handmade textiles, NGMA, Mumbai in 2024
Delhi Contemporary Art Week Show represented by Gallery Espace, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2024
Womanifesto: Flowing Connections, Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok in 2023
Delhi Contemporary Art Week Show represented by Gallery Espace, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2023
Delhi Contemporary Art Week Show represented by Gallery Espace, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2022
The Chaos Trilogy, Part 1: Disorder Under Heaven, The Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug in 2022
Past-Present-Continuous, 25 Years of Guild, Bikaner House, New Delhi in 2022
India Art Fair, New Delhi presented by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2022
Abu Dhabi Art, UAE presented by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2021
Notes, Documents & Processes, an online exhibition at Hyderabad Literary Festival in 2021
‘Voices from the Courtyard’, Womanifesto exhibited at the Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial, organized by the Art Museum of Guangzhou in 2020
Mindful Circulations, curated by Kerstin Winking, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai in 2019
Imagining a forest, Museum Of Conflict, Ahmedabad in 2018
Interlude- I, Knots Annual Show, Baroda in 2018
Morphology of Archive: Connected Histories of Goa, MOG, Museum of Goa Contemporary arts, Goa in 2016
Papyrus Indic, Mayfair Art Gallery, Baroda in 2015
Story Ltd, Saffron Art Gallery, for a period of one year, Online Show in 2014-15
Inscription on the Surface of the Transitory Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda in 2014
Fluid The Site, GIDC, Baroda in 2013
India Art Fair New Delhi in 2013
Presence Absence Kochi Muziris Biennale Collateral, Kochi in 2013
Baroda March 2012, Coomaraswamy Hall, Mumbai, Group Show. 2011 Black Drizzle, State Art Gallery, Guwahati, Assam in 2012
Subject-Object, Gallery Ragini, Lado Sarai, New Delhi in 2011
Three person group show at Gallery-3, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2011
Portraiture at Kottayam, Kerala in 2011
Baroda Marathon at ABS Gallery, Baroda in 2011
Black and White in the Horizon at Gallery Beyond, Mumbai in 2011
Black and White in the Horizon, Preview at Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda in 2010
The Strand Art Room, Mumbai in 2010
Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda in 2010
Multitudes, in Durbar hall Kochi and Max Muller Bhavan, Bengaluru in 2009
Pachmarhi Camp Works, Faculty of fine arts gallery Baroda in 2008
Camps and Workshops:
Conducted a Botanical Illustrations workshop with students and art teachers from Stella Maris College, Chennai in 2024
Conducted Exploring Cyanotype Techniques, a workshop for the Artist’s Collective Remembering Nasreen in Baroda in 2022
Conducted Documenting the Ephemeral for The Art Room, a collateral event for Kochi Muziris Biennale in 2019
Conducted a paper-making workshop for Eco Artists Residency organized by Green The Blue Charitable Trust, Vadodara in 2019
Residencies:
Invited for Travelling Plants, a month long residency at the Institute of French Pondicherry (IFP), a collaborative project initiated by Goethe Institute of Chennai and Alliance Française of Madras, Chennai in 2024
To study the official colonial records of botanical survey of in India at the National Archives of India and to explore the flora of Delhi Ridge, New Delhi in 2023
Documenting the ground plants of Alibaug, Raigad District of Maharashtra in 2022
