Nikhita Luthra

Self taught. Never lived in the same place for more than 4 years. The purpose of my art is to turn the fetishizing gaze of the empire back on itself and to challenge imperialism in all its forms: on gender, the mind, and identity. I want my art to explore the rejection of themes like centrality, rationality and unification that the colonialists beat into us as a tool of oppression. I want my art to be a celebration of the periphery, the boundaries, of tension and clashing, much like the Indian motherland in whose bosom such diverse subcultures, religions, and ethnicities nest. I do this by a return to the local. The West views the world in lines, we Indians view it in circles and sinusoids. Deeply inspired by Tagore's The Home and the World.

Swarthmore College. Highest Honors in Statistics and Economics.