Ankita Kashyap






























  Ankita is a multidisciplinary artist. She works across sculpture, installation, collages and video to re-imagine the rose as a site of feminist resistance and renewal. In popular visual culture, roses and the painted image of women have been synonymous with beauty. She reclaims this association by transmuting rose stems as writing instruments lending it agency to how it is popularly imagined, to inscribe shared stories of objectification, love and revolution. By chiselling the dried rose stems at a sharp angle and fashion it as a pen, she plants a metaphorical sapling of rose. She utilises rose stems as the perfect tool to write stories, letters and experiences of love.



Education
MA Contemporary Art Practice
Royal College of Art
2024-25

Postgraduate Certificate
Critical Analysis of Art
Bombay Institute for Critical Analysis and Research
2023-24

MFA Painting
Banaras Hindu University
2017-19

BFA Painting
Banaras Hindu University
2013-17




Solo Shows
2019
Khoj- KA Gallery, Varanasi, India





Group Shows
2026
In Between
Next of Kin Gallery
Kindred Studios
Curated by Zhang Hailun 


2026
Stitch Glitch
Curated by Manashri Pai Dukle x The Art Documentor Project.


2025
As Tranquil As Can Be
Presented by Raqs Media Collective
Serendipity Arts Festival 2025


2025
Annual Open
Curated by Anne Daffau 
Southwark Park Galleries (Lake Gallery)



2025
Kaalchakra
OSA x London Design Festival
Asylum Chapel


2025
Zone 10
Annex by Koppel Project


2025
RCA Graduate show
Studio Building, Battersea


2025
Contemporary Art Fest
The Hangar, RCA


2024
Flux
The Hangar, RCA


2019
Barbil Art Project
Utsha Foundation


2018
1st International Kala Mela
IGNCA, New Delhi


2017
Annual Exhibition
Bombay Art Society








I Want To Be Taller 
Shujigami rice paper, handmade rose paper, rose stems, dyed human hair, ink 
467 x 110 cm 
2025
The White Rose
Rice paper, human hair
157 x 40 cm
2022

Still Life II 
Shujigami paper, ink, thread
57 x 75 cm
2024
I Want To Be Your Shirt 
Shujigami paper, dyed hair
77 x 74 x 10  cm
2024
The Offering
Rice paper, paper pulp, wire, ink
Size variable
2020
Still Life I
Kozo paper, ink
70 x 58 cm 
2024
I Want To Be Your Shirt II
Shujigami paper, natural rose ink, rose paper, human hair
2025
Paperweight
Shujigami paper, watercolor ink, rose paper, rose stem
40 x 40 x 12 cm 2026 
The Eyes Of The Beholder, 2026, 88 x 90 cm, Shujigami paper, rose stems, rose ink, water color, willow charcoal, thread. 

We Are All Ears
10 seconds
2025
Rose, 2026 , 87 x 92 cm, Shujigami paper, rose charcoal, willow charcoal, rose stems, thread. 























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