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Shilpa Bawane (b.1980) is an Indian multi-media art practitioner, residing and working in Pune. 

Her art is a sensitive response to her personal experiences, focusing on exploring geometric space with a corporeal aspect. Intrigued by the notions of permanence, impermanence, and recovery, she perceives architectural landscapes and communal structures as embodying memories and lived narratives. Through her art and installations, Shilpa endeavours to incite dialogues concerning the passage of time, honing in on the vulnerability of our surrounding environments and humanity's innate capacity for resilience and rejuvenation. Drawing from the tapestry of her journey, Shilpa's creations serve as evocative visualizations of potentialities, prompting viewers to contemplate the emotional significance inherent within space and materiality, thereby creating an appreciation for the present moment. 

 In this process of exploration, she does embroidery, she carves and constructs space, makes installations, paintings and explores sound and poetry. She likes to embrace different mediums as per the requirement of her work and enjoys how her mediums often feed into each other.

• Solo Artist Exhibition, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur Art Week Edition 4.0, curated by Public Arts Trust of India      2025
• Emerging Palettes Edition 14 - Srishti Art gallery Hyderabad 2024 
• Sustaina India Art Exhibition, Bikaner House, New Delhi  2024 
• India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale - Doors, Red Fort, New Delhi   2023 - 2024 
• Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore     2023 
• ‘Mapping Representational Spaces’,  Rangoli Metro Art Gallery, Bangalore    2023 
• Bombay Art Society's 129th All India Annual Exhibition    2021 
• Cut to 2060, Art and Charlie Gallery, Mumbai     2020
• Artwork featured in UK based magazine Art Hole 3    2020 
• Maharashtra State Art Exhibition       2020 
• Sir J J School of Art, Mumbai       2017 - 2020 
• Nippon Online Art Gallery       2020
• Artists Center Art Gallery, Mumbai      2019
• India Art Festival, Mumbai      2012 - 2013 
• Painting auctioned for ATMA, NGO for underprivileged kids, Radio Club, Mumbai 2010

• Kochi Biennale Students Workshop   2022

• Government Second Award - BFA Final year 2nd Rank, Sir JJ School of Art      2021
• Merit Certificate  - Annual Art Exhibition, Sir JJ School of Art      2018
• Printmaking studio award  - Annual Art Exhibition, Sir JJ School of Art      2017