Photo: Daniel Greer
Anoushka Mirchandani (b. 1988, Pune, India) uses painting as a form of agency—an ongoing process of locating and relocating identity across shifting contexts. After emigrating from India to the United States at 18, she discovered new freedoms while confronting the complexities of belonging and loss. Over the past decade, she has cultivated a visual language that mirrors this interplay of concealment and revelation, expressing the layered nature of selfhood.
Her paintings center on figures suspended between repose and action—often women posed with quiet confidence, unbothered by expectations of modesty or restraint. Their bodies dissolve into surrounding forms, delineated only by gestures of oil stick or pastel. The tension between bold poses and vanishing contours evokes questions of visibility and vulnerability: what parts of ourselves do we suppress, and what do we allow to emerge in unfamiliar spaces?
Mirchandani has presented solo exhibitions at ICA San Jose (San Jose, 2026) Yossi Milo (New York, 2024); Galerie Isa (Mumbai, 2023); UTA Artist Space (Los Angeles, 2023); Rhodes Contemporary (London, 2021); and Glass Rice Gallery (San Francisco, 2020). Her film Landscapes of Longing screened at MoMA as part of New Directors/New Films (2025). Her work is held in the collections of the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), the Museum of Art and Photography (Bangalore), and Northwestern University (Chicago). She is currently Artist-in-Residence at Silver Art Projects (New York).