Artist in Residence
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Ravi Agarwal
Ravi Agarwal is an interdisciplinary artist, environmental campaigner, writer, and curator whose practice addresses the entangled relationship between nature and its future through photography, video, text, and installation. He has exhibited at important biennales, including Lahore (2024), Havana (2019), Yinchuan (2018), Kochi (2016), Sharjah (2013), and Documenta XI (2002). Agarwal has curated large-scale public art projects such as Yamuna-Elbe (2009) and Embrace Our Rivers (2018). More recently, he curated New Natures, A terrible beauty is born (Goethe-Institut, Mumbai, January 2022), and Imagined Documents at the Les Rencontres d'Arles (July 2022), and was a curatorial advisor for Carbon - Science Gallery Bengaluru (2025).
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Dr. Paula Sengupta
Dr. Paula Sengupta is an artist-pedagogue, curator, and art writer. She is a Professor, and currently Head of the Department of Graphics-Printmaking, and former Dean of the Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
Trained as a printmaker, Paula’s repertoire includes broadsheets, artist’s books, objects, installation, moving image, and community art projects. Her work addresses gender binaries, enforced migration, loss of home, heritage and landscape, and a concern for conservation of societies, communities and ecologies. Her language is distinctly feminine, therefore laying claim to methods and materials that underline feminist thought.
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Divya Singh
Divya Singh (b. 1995) is a visual artist, who lives and works in New Delhi, India.She completed her BFA from College of Art, New Delhi and her MFA from Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh. Her practice is primarily rooted in painting and explores themes such as isolation, experience, memory and mortality – emanating largely from a poetic engagement with Time. Mediums such as photography, writing, cinema and painting are at the centre of her language as a practitioner and have featured as important categories of both work and interest. These varied elements come together within the work and can be seen most distinctly in the artist books made by her, as well as in found imagery which accompanies the paintings and other media during exhibitions.
In India, where philanthropy, patronage and state support for the arts is limited, Sana Rezwan founded PATI in 2022 to democratise arts and culture for all.
Based in the Indian state of Rajasthan (between Jaipur and Jodhpur), PATI’s initiatives foster a more holistic growth of arts and culture through artist residencies, commissioning, curating, education and professional development programmes and community exchange, reinforcing creativity as an important part of everyday life regardless of a person’s association or generation. This work is achieved through innovative collaborations with like-minded local and global luxury brands, non-profit institutions, galleries and individuals who share PATI’s ambitions.
All PATI’s programmes provide free access foregrounding the notion that art belongs to everyone, while maintaining a multi-layered approach to give the same gravitas to the work of emerging and non-artists as it does to those of an international standing.