Sheetal Agarwal

Sheetal is an artist, photographer and award winning documentary filmmaker. Her documentaries have won several international awards including the Michael Moore Award Best Documentary Film at the 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Best Documentary KODAK Award at the 20th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Her recent documentary “Please Choose Me” was screened at the Hong Kong Space Museum in 2017. Her academic research in documentary has examined the nuances of reality portrayed in the genre. Her artwork has been exhibited in Singapore, Spain, Germany, New York, Hong Kong and London. Sheetal has exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2017, London Art Biennale 2017, XIth Florence Biennale 2017, Oxford International Art Fair 2018, Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2018 and Accessible Art Fair at The BOZAR Brussels 2018 the selection included Simon De Pury.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Sheetal was a PhD candidate under the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme at Lingnan University Hong Kong from Aug 2011 to June 2013. Her research focused on the impact of technology on the theory and practice of documentary films, and specifically on the nature of documentary truth. Her thesis explored the relationship between truth in documentary and the contextualisation of photographic (and moving) images, image manipulation and editing, narrative construction and authorial intentions, specially with technology that enables the creation of multiple narratives - versions of the ‘truth’ - out of the same raw audio-visual material.
Sheetal also taught VIS201, a second year undergraduate course titled “Visual Culture and Digital Media” in the first semester of the academic year 2011-2012, Preparing the coursework, lectures, reading lists, examination papers and graded the students. The course was singled out for special praise in the External Academic Advisor’s report on the Bachelor of Visual Studies (Hons) Programme for the academic year 2011-2012. Sheetal is a Masters in Fine Arts from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (2005), and graduated with a GPA of 3.9/4

2018 Affordable Art Fair Singapore
2018 Biennale Larnaca, CYPRUS
2018, Accesible Art Fair, BRUSSLES
2018 Affordable Art Fair, HONG KONG
2018 Oxford International Art Fair, OXFORD
2017 Artspace Warehouse, LOS ANGELES
2017 Florence Biennale - International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, ITALY
2017 Affordable Art Fair HONG KONG
2017 London Art Biennale, LONDON
2016 Solo exhibition at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, HONG KONG
2016 2nd Annual World Fine Art Exhibition in NEW YORK, USA
2016 Crossing Border - International Festival of Crossing Media, JCCAC, HK
2015 New York Contemporary Art Biennial, NEW YORK, USA
2015 HK International Cultural & Creative Industries Fair, Asia World Expo HK
2015 Art Conclave, Camden Image Gallery,  LONDON, UK
2015 InterArt Greifswald 2015, Greifswald, GERMANY
2015 Nuevos Valores Vl, Zaragoza, SPAIN
2015 The Enlightened One, ION Art Gallery, SINGAPORE