Avantika Bawa

Avantika Bawa (born 1973 in India) is an Indian-American artist, curator, and professor of art living and working in Portland, OR. Bawa is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in site-specific installation, video, printmaking, and drawing.

Bawa has an MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University.

Bawa is an associate professor of art at Washington State University Vancouver, and serves on the board of the Oregon Arts Commission. In 2014, she was awarded an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, as well as the Joan Shipley Award. She has had solo exhibitions at Suyama Space in Seattle, WA; Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta, GA; Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center in Portland, OR; and Gallery Maskara in Mumbai, India. Her work was included in the 2016 Portland Biennial, curated by Michelle Grabner.

Bawa's work responds to and incorporates architectural spaces and styles. Her techniques are based in Minimalism and abstraction.

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