Children’s Book Illustration, 2023
My first experience illustrating a children’s book, Why Won’t It Growwwwww? tells the story of sisters Nina and Reena, who have a small new plant with a big problem: it just won’t grow! As they try everything they can to help their little plant flourish, the sisters discover that they’re not so different from it after all. Just like plants, we all need healthy habits to grow and thrive.
MoMA’s post: Notes on Art in a Global Context, 2026
For MoMA’s post, I conducted a two-part interview with Mumbai-based artist and Dalit Panther Archive cofounder Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar. Our conversation explores her artistic practice in relation to caste, gender, and political resistance, examining the visual histories of anti-caste movements, Dalit women’s representation, and the possibilities of transnational solidarity.
Sacramento Public Library, 2025
Chicken Soup, Made with Love is an illustrated book I created for Sacramento Public Library’s statewide Adult New Reader initiative, which develops accessible, engaging reading materials for adult literacy learners.
Art History Masters Thesis from UCLA, 2023
This thesis revisits the work of Indo-Hungarian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941), a pivotal modernist from India’s colonial period. This project suggests the possibility of a critical, racialized queerness that can be mapped onto her oeuvre, particularly in Two Girls, Young Girls (1932), and Woman Resting on a Charpoy (1937-38). It argues that Sher-Gil’s paintings establish intersecting conceptions of race and sexuality that are in continual conversation with each other, seamlessly slipping between platonic, romantic, and familial love.
Art History Honors Thesis from Macalester College, 2020
In 1996, renowned contemporary Indian artist Nalini Malani embarked on what would become a decades-long project exploring the Greek myth of Medea as an embodiment of postcolonialism. Considering Medea’s historical interpretations as a mistreated wife and a villainous mother, this thesis examines how Malani transforms Medea into a metaphor of resistance to British colonialism and anticolonial nationalism in post-Partition India.