Janhavi Khemka
Born in 1993 in Varanasi, India, Janhavi Khemka is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She completed her Master of Studio Art degree in print media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Printmaking from the Faculty of Visual Art, Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India (2015) and a Master of Fine Art in Printmaking from Graphics Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan (2017).
Her current artistic research has an intersection of traditional printmaking, animation, fiber arts, and performance. She has exhibited her artwork in regional, national, and international galleries and institutions throughout the United States, India, Norway, Korea, and the United Kingdom.
Recently she received a Printmaking Today Graduate Award for Winter Issues Magazine in December 2022 from Cello Press Limited, Witney, UK. In 2023, she was selected to present a solo exhibition at Comfort Station in Logan Square, Chicago. She has recently been invited to attend a residency Kala’s Artist in Residence Program at Berkely, California and will begin a three-month 3Arts/Bodies of Work residency in Fall 2023.
Featured Artworks
- Letter to My Mother Photo and Video credits - Mikey Mosher
- Warning: It is time Comfort Station, Chicago. Photo credit: Mikey Mosher
- My Room as Hell Photo and Video credits - Janhavi Khemka and Mikey Mosher
- #1505 Comfort Station, Chicago. Photo and Video credit: Mikey Mosher
- “चटाई” Photo and Video credits - Janhavi Khemka and Mikey Mosher
- Sleeping Photo credits - Mikey Mosher
- #1621 Photo credits - Janhavi Khemka