Shivani Khoshia brings together mythology, storytelling and non-Western belief systems to explore the connection between the physical and the spiritual, and alternative states of consciousness and understanding beyond the observable and current socio-political paradigms.
She draws on philosophy, psychology and geomythology to generate a creative practice across drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. Through these media, she explores the realm of images between the memory and the collective unconscious as a transformative and healing tool.
Education
2018 MA Painting, Royal College of Art
2005 BA (Hons) Politics & Economics, School of Oriental & African Studies
Selected shows
2023 Visitant Queens, Lincoln University
2023 Play & Compassion, Kingshill House Creative Centre
2022 Artworks Open 2022, Barbican Arts Group Trust, catalogue, accompanying text by Louise Ashcroft
2022 Dreams & Visions, The College of Psychic Studies
2022 Blunderbuss, Two Queens Leicester
2022 L.O.V.E Art, LCB Depot
2022 Summer Camp, Eastside Projects
2022 Waverton Art Prize, Boisedale Art curated by @paint_talk (shortlisted)
2022 Two Queens @ GLOAM gallery
2022 Abstract, Surface Gallery
2021 Open Fragments, Pragmata Collective
2021 In Memoriam, Artcore Gallery
2021 Group show, Two Queens Leicester
2020 Alumni exhibition, New York Studio School
2020 Draw + release, University of Westminster
2019 Remembering Inanna, King Edward's Witley (solo)
2019 Connections, Gerald Moore Gallery
2019 Let Us Grow, Grow Tottenham
2018 Body Shores, King Edward's Witley (solo)
2018 The Barren Slope, Safehouse 1
2018 Flock Art, GX Gallery
2018 Thumb Nails, Hockney Gallery
2017 RCA Secret, Dyson Gallery
Residencies
2020 !GWAK
2020 King Edward's Witley
2016 Cranleigh Arts Centre
2014 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild + grant
Teaching
2018 - 2020 King Edward's Witley
2019 - 2020 Colour Wheel Art Class
2018 Conquest Art
2015 & 2017 Thames Valley Summer School
2015 & 2018 Waverley Borough Council
2016 – 2018 Pulborough Hall
Interviews
2020 Art as Catharis