Rachana N

Rachana Nagarkar is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist based between Mumbai, India and Chicago, USA, with over two decades of professional practice. Her work spans painting, sculpture, installation and socially engaged projects, with a continuing interest in memory, belonging, migration, urbanisation, ecology and the changing relationship between people and their surroundings.

Her practice is deeply rooted in observation of place. She is particularly drawn to homes, settlements, architecture, landscapes and the small human activities that give a place its identity. Working between Mumbai and Chicago has expanded her perspective on how different cities carry histories of migration, development, community and change.

Nagarkar has exhibited extensively in India and internationally, including exhibitions and art fairs in Chicago, New York, Milan, Berlin, Singapore and Miami. She has undertaken studio residencies at Zhou B Art Center, Mana Contemporary and Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago.

Alongside her studio practice, she mentors young artists and design students and is involved in community-based and collaborative art projects. She is also a co-founder of Highland Project Space, an artist-led initiative supporting contemporar...

2000 — Applied Art, L.S. Raheja School of Art, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

1997 — Higher Secondary Education (HSE), Mumbai, India

1995 — Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Mumbai, India

2026 — Gangrai, Group Exhibition, Mumbai
2026 — Contemporary Stories: Women Artists, Group Exhibition, Mumbai
2025 — The Unhoused – My INDIA, Germany
2025 — Gandhi, Group Exhibition
2025 — Ceaseless Moments, Group Exhibition
2024 — Empowered Expressions: Women’s Show
2023 — Pixelated Home, Solo Exhibition, Ignition Project Space, Chicago
2022 — A Green Horizon, Collaborative Environmental Installation, Mumbai
2022 — Centerline Show, Chicago
2022 — Testing Times, Group Exhibition
2022 — Order Disorder, Group Exhibition
2021 — In the Blink of an Eye, Group Exhibition, Gurgaon
2019 — Devika Rani: The Theatre Tour, Public Art Intervention, India
2019 — Text as Text III, Group Exhibition, Mumbai
2018 — Art Mela, New Delhi
2015 — Artists for Nepal, New Delhi
2013 — India Art Fair, New Delhi
2011–2013 — India Art Fair, New Delhi
2011 — Art Palm Beach, Miami
2010 — SCOPE Miami, Miami
2010 — AAF Singapore, Singapore
2008 — MIART, Milan
2008 — MINT III, Milan
2008 — ENGENDERED, Lincoln Center, New York
2007 — Body Forth, Mumbai
2006 — Crossmopolitan, Mumbai
2009 — Minimums of the Maximum City, The Guild, Mumbai
2010 — The Sacred & Profane, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 — Green Block Grey Tree, Goa