Aparna Krishen

Aparna Krishen paints the interior life — the grief behind a smile, the stillness of a figure at a threshold, the last light on water before dusk arrives. Born in Kolkata and shaped by Kashmir’s ancient light and landscape, she works in oil and acrylic across portraiture, figurative, and landscape. Her subjects carry something unspoken. Her paintings invite you to sit with it. Based in Chicago.

Self-taught artist
Ongoing study with artists and instructors in the North Shore of Chicago

Selected Group Exhibitions

Artists-in-Residence Gallery, Glencoe, IL — Spring AIR, 2014
Artists-in-Residence Gallery, Glencoe, IL — AIR: Water, Earth and Fire, 2015
Artists-in-Residence Gallery, Glencoe, IL — Objects of Desire, 2014
Artists-in-Residence Gallery, Glencoe, IL — Outside the Lines, 2014
Artists-in-Residence Gallery, Glencoe, IL — Small Packages Show, 2013
Artists-in-Residence Gallery, Glencoe, IL — Open AIR, 2013
Artists-in-Residence Gallery, Glencoe, IL — Vistas & Visages, 2013
Gallery G, Glencoe, IL — Asian Flair, 2011
Boocoo Cultural Center, Evanston, IL — La Vie Est Belle – Life is Beautiful!, 2011