PROFILE

Krisha Bhuva (b. 2002, Gujarat) is a visual artist based in Vadodara, India. She recently completed her Master of Visual Arts in Painting 2026 from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, where she also earned her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts 2024. Her practice explores the immediacy of lived surroundings and the narrative potential of everyday life. Through close observation of ordinary spaces, interpersonal exchanges, and fleeting visual moments, she builds works that reflect on perception, memory, and relational presence. A recurring aspect of her work is her self-positioning within the pictorial field as both witness and participant. This allows her to examine how experience is shaped by context and how the body negotiates space, memory, and intimacy. At times, her work also turns toward close companions, where repeated portraiture becomes a site of psychological and emotional reflection. Animals and their quiet engagement with chaos further inform her visual language, offering alternative ways of thinking about stillness, instinct, and presence. Repetition in her imagery functions as a contemplative act, deepening attention and transforming the ordinary into something meditative. Working predominantly on silk, Bhuva prepares the surface with binder and uses watercolours and pigments to create layered tonalities. The transparency of silk is central to her practice, allowing her to paint on both sides of the surface and develop luminous, flattened planes of colour. This process creates a subtle interplay between material and image, opacity and translucency. Her work draws inspiration from Indian miniature traditions as well as East Asian artistic traditions, particularly those of China and Japan. She is especially influenced by their compositional restraint, ornamental sensitivity, and narrative quietness. Her paintings occupy a space where simplicity and decoration coexist, allowing personal experience to unfold through layered storytelling.