Priyadarshini Ohol

Ohol spent years in her Himalayan studio in Dharamshala, establishing an influential, independent, avant garde practice which finds expression in painting, performance, video, performative painting, butoh, poetry, articles, interdisciplinary immersive installations, experimental and collaborative works.

This examination and transformation of misery, fate, human experience into thriving life rooted in radical self care, scientific inquiry, authenticity, freedom, play is at the core of her art practice.

Ohol’s sensitive multilayered performances play with perceptions, challenge norms and change art landscapes. Derivatives of her work appear, the subjects she examines and the language find their way into variegated vocabularies. Yet, her expressionist canvases clearly indicate her irreverence for categories betraying a fierce need for artistic freedom. She says her work includes stream of consciousness art, yet given it’s reflexive dynamism, it is best described by the term agile art.

Ohol’s is a complex social practice examining the self in relation to the world, equality, exclusion, inclusion, identity, belonging, dehumanization, discrimination, casteism, freedom, sexuality, gender, feminism, possession, dispossession, ethics, c...

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, VJTI, Bombay

Awarded Prohelvetia Swiss Arts Council Studio Residency 2020

Bodytaster Residency, France, April 2019

Ramkinikar Art Gallery, Siliguri, May 2019, Group Show

"Wallflower", Performance, Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin, April 2019

“Everybody is an Artist”, February 2019, Dharamshala

“Painting the Snow”, February 2019, Dharamshala

“Death on the Fountain”, January 2019, Dharamshala

“A Cold Bed”, January 2019, Dharamshala

“Letting Go of the Child I Raised”, January 2019, Dharamshala

“This is a Necessity”, December 2018, Dharamshala

“Between the Seen and the Unseen”, December 2018, Dharamshala

“The Black Bride's World”, December 2018, Dharamshala

“Poltergeist”, December 2018, Dharamshala

“The Black Bride Welcomes You”, November 2018, Dharamshala

“Ohol Open Studio”, Ohol Art Studio, Dharamshala, November 2018

"Dehumanized Body: India 2018 | Kolkata"
One Woman Show at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India , October 2018

“A Pink Girl with a Knife”, September 2018, Dharamshala

Single Video of mixed previous Pink Girl performances, audience, objects, sound, live performance.

“A Pink Girl is Dehumanized”, September 2018, Dharamshala

Single channel video projection of previous Pink Girl Performance, sound, objects, audience, live pe...