Meenal Raghava

Artist Statement:
Moving between New Delhi and New York, I have come to understand identity not as fixed inheritance, but as a site of continual negotiation—a shifting terrain shaped by memory, distance, and the ongoing labor of belonging. My practice asks: how does one become at home in motion? And what visual language can hold the quiet complexities of this becoming?
My works function as speculative architectures—visual structures that examine how memory sediments into the body, how cultural lineages persist and fracture, and how place is continually re-authored through presence and absence.
Materiality is central to this inquiry. I work with oils, acrylics, concrete, metal leaf, and epoxy to construct surfaces that echo the internal architectures of identity. Industrial materials introduce weight, tension, and permanence, while color, epoxy and gilding act as fluid, emotive forces—carriers of history and agents of transformation. My visual language draws from color field painting, Impressionism, and Indian miniature and tribal traditions. These influences coexist not as synthesis, but as reflection of hybridity itself: layered, contradictory, generative.
Each work becomes a meditative environment that unfolds slowly and rewards ...

MBA - International Business
MA - Economics

The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn 2024