I completed my MFA in sculpture in 2014, at the Centre Department of Fine Arts, Tribhuvan University. I have since worked on various pieces and co-founded the artists’ collective Artree Nepal. I taught sculpture at Tribhuvan University from 2012–14. My mixed media installations depict the concurrence of frequently contradictory traditional beliefs and ideas and contemporary events and ways of life. My most recent works explore how the geopolitics of small countries hover in flux between established and emerging world powers. My work endeavours to express power struggles as these emerge between perspectives on gender by way of a dialogue on taboos and socially forbidden subjects. I focus on the social, economic and political past and present through dialogue and by exploring personal and collective memory. I also investigate alternative histories, such as folklore, oral histories, mythologies etc. along with references to mainstream history. I have been invited to various artist-inresidence programmes, and my works have been exhibited at various international art institutes, galleries and museums. I have been key speaker in several conference panel discussions. As part of the recent travelling exhibition A God, a Beast and a Line, my work has been exhibited at the Dhaka Art Summit 2018, the Para Site – Contemporary Art Center Hong Kong, TS1 Yangoon Myanmar, and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Poland. I presented my work, among other places, at Kathmandu Triennial, 2017; Serendipity Arts Festival, 2017; Parallel Realities 2016/17, Moesgaard Museum Denmark; Asia Contemporary Exhibition, 2016, at the Jeonbuk Museum, Korea. My solo exhibition In Between Uncommon Factors was held at the Nepal Arts Council in 2010.
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