Anjali Purohit

Anjali believes that art, like theatre, poetry or music, is a medium of communication, of expression. It is a language that wants to "˜speak' to the viewer. If this dialogue happens, then, she believes, the creation is complete.


Anjali's works are ruminative and offer understated comment, tongue in cheek observations, or then, sometimes, quirky, ironic asides. She explores an aesthetic that interprets personal expression in its social context and presents a perspective that suggests such a construction.


She would like her art to speak at various levels, to achieve a "˜layered realism', where concrete objects stand as metaphors for an abstract idea. In a reversal, perhaps, of abstract art she attempts to work her paintings - ostensively "˜figurative' - to suggest or represent an abstract thought.


She has been a witness to the sad history of Mumbai metropolis and most of her works reflect her exploration of this relation with her land. She would like her work to testify to what the city has stood for - to capture, preserve and archive its bylanes, mills, behemoths, alleys, staircases, chimneys, Irani cafes, chawls, corridors and doorways not only because they are part of personal as well as collective memory but also...

Academic-
Sir J J School of Art :
Foundation Course

Elphinstone College :
BA (Hons) Philosophy

Bombay University
MA (Philosophy)

Bombay University
PhD in Philosophy

Exhibitions -


Godrej India Culture Lab

Vikhroli Skin, Mumbai -December 2013


India Art Festival

Nehru Centre, Mumbai - December 2013


Guggenheim Lab, Mumbai

Girnichi Chav - January 2013


-Worlds Within Worlds

Bajaj Art Gallery -7th-12th November 2011


-CPAA Charity Show

Cymroza Art GalleryMumbai - July 2009


-Colors of Life (CPAA), Traditions Art Gallery, Juhu, Mumbai - August 2009


‘Women and Water Rights’

Katherine E Nash Gallery

Minneapolis, USA -May 2009


-Erasures-A Partial Account.

Nehru Centre Art Gallery

Worli, Mumbai, -Oct 2008


-Artist Centre, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 1998 to 2007

Annual Members exhibitions


-Kala Ghoda Art Festival

Marine Artists Show, 1999


-AIFACS New Delhi 1998


-Artist Centre, Mumbai 1997


-The People and their Places ANZ Grindlays, Mumbai, 1995


-All Things Must Pass

Bajaj Art GalleryJuly 1995