ANIKET B. VISHWASRAO

Aniket B. Vishwasrao (b. 1993) works primarily in serigraphy, a medium he treats as inseparable from his subject: the act of seeing while in motion. Trained at Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai, completing his BFA in 2016 and MFA in Graphics (Drawing & Painting) in 2018, he has spent the years since building a practice rooted in the perceptual experience of urban transit. The central condition is the moving train — not as a site of observation, but as a mechanism that reorganises how the city is perceived. Screen printing's layered process, where each pass of ink deposits a partial image interacting with what came before, becomes in his hands a structural analogue for this fragmented seeing: fields interrupted by lines, silhouettes punctured by dots, grids slipping into atmosphere. Beneath this immediacy runs a deeper discipline drawn from intaglio, whose logic of incision and retention gives his prints a persistent sense of imprint even as the imagery appears to flicker and pass.

His recent body of work reconstructs the city not as a stationary subject but as a field of relational movements — buildings dissolving into texture, pathways fragmenting into dotted trajectories, structures interpenetrating rather than sitting in hierarchy. Even empty space is treated as active, a zone of transition where perception recalibrates before being overtaken again. Where much of Indian modernism has approached space through stillness or symbolic density, Vishwasrao's work proposes transit itself as a way of knowing, drawing its visual logic from the local train, shifting landscapes, and peripheral architecture rather than depicting them as motifs.

Read alongside a long art-historical conversation on movement and perception — one that resists easy alignment with the formal concerns of Cubism or Futurism — Vishwasrao's prints are described by writer Sushma Sabnis as holding instability without correcting it: images that do not fix the world but reveal how it continuously forms and dissolves in the act of being seen. His solo exhibition, The Passing Image, opens in 2026 at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.

Selected awards: Lalit Kala Akademi National Scholarship, 2019; Devi R. Mehta Charitable Trust Award, Sir J. J. School of Art, 2018; Bombay Art Society Kalavishkar Award (Judges' Choice), 2018; Prafulla Dahanukar Kalanand Merit Award, 2017. Selected collections: Lalit Kala Akademi, Regional Centre Chennai; LIC of India; Reserve Bank of India.