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Janhavi Khemka

Janhavi Khemka

Interdisciplinary Artist

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Chicago, City of Chicago, CookMember since January 2, 2023
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Born in 1993 in Varanasi, Janhavi Khemka is an interdisciplinary artist in India and Chicago. She attends the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in pursuit of a Master of fine arts degree in print media. 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.

Experience

Teaching Experience 

2022 Fall Semester Teaching Assistantship, Printmedia Practice, Faculty: Jaspar Goodrich, SAIC, Chicago, IL

Fall Semester Teaching Assistantship, Beginning Lithography, Faculty: Brian Rush, SAIC, Chicago, IL

Worker as Staff, Printshop, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Spring Semester Teaching Assistantship, Beginning Lithography, Faculty: Brian Rush, SAIC, Chicago, IL

Workshop Woodcut with Deaf students, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

2021 Fall Semester Teaching Assistantship, Relief Prints: Coll Folios (Relief Folios), Faculty: Oli Watt, SAIC, Chicago,

2019 Printmaking shop, Woodcut workshop with Children, Suchana School, Santiniketan, India 

2017 Pahli Uadaan, Loka Project, Woodcut workshop with Children, Loka, Bihar, India

Barbil Art Project 3, Tales from the Land, Utsha Foundation, Woodcut workshop with Children, Odisha, India

Achievement And Grant / Awards 

2022 Printmaking Today, State of the Award, Graduate artist, Cello Press Limited, Witney, UK

2021 Holy Hunt Graduate Fellowship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2021 Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation, Merit Grand Award in Printmaking, Churchgate, Mumbai, India 

2018 Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation, Uttar Pradesh State Award in Printmaking, Churchgate, Mumbai, India 

2016 Young Artist in Santiniketan, First Award in Printmaking, SSVAD, Santiniketan, India

2014 First award in Annual Exhibition, Faculty of Visual Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India 

Participial Workshops 

2018 Japanese Woodblock Printmaking with Artist Paul Furneaux, Edinburgh, UK

National Printmaking Camp, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, College of Arts, Bengaluru, India 

International Graphic Arts Festival, Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh, India 

2016 Research Programmer, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh 

Kala Uday, Woodcut print, Department of Fine Arts, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India 

2010 Miniature Painting workshop, Gyaan Pravaha, Varanasi, India 

Printshop work, Kala Bhavan, Bhopal, India

Participation in Conference 

2022 Illinois ASL Student, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

The Mid America Print Council, Kent State University, School of Art Kent, Ohio, US

Our Future Share, SGIC International, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, US

 

Education

Education

2022 Master of Fine Arts Studio Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 

2017 Master of Fine Arts Printmaking, Graphics Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, WB, India

2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting and Printmaking, Faculty of Visual Art, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, India 

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