Based in Bengaluru, India
(b.1996)
Tasneem Lohani's artistic practice investigates experiences of alienation and disembodiment
in the age of digital communication, with a focus on techno-capitalism in India. Drawing on the
digital media theories of Byung-Chul Han, Marshall McLuhan and Douglas Rushkoff, she questions its
impact on perception, embodiment, and social relations. She further examines how these largely
Western-designed digital systems materially affect mental health, bodily awareness, and ecological
relationships in Eastern societies, disrupting existing forms of knowledge-making and social
organisation.
Over the past 7 years, her work has focused on how social media and digital infrastructures have
flattened communication into metrics and curated identities , giving rise to rising anxiety and social
fragmentation. In the Indian context, these technologies do not arrive as neutral tools but carry
forward colonial logics of extraction, classification, and control. Western technological systems often
overwrite local epistemologies, languages, and modes of attention, reproducing power structures
that echo older colonial forms of governance. Today, this legacy persists through digital surveillance,
algorithmic control, and the instrumentalization of media to deepen social and religious polarisation.
As a Muslim living in India, engaging critically with these dynamics is both urgent and personal.
Alongside this critique of digital power, her current research turns toward Indian traditions of textile
dyeing that are rooted in sustained, reciprocal relationships with land, water, and plant life. By
working with natural dyes and fabric, she explores slow and ecologically attuned processes as
counterpoints to the extractive logic of the digital economy. These practices offer alternative ways
of thinking, making, and knowing, grounding abstract technological systems in their often-invisible
environmental and social costs.
EDUCATION
MFA 2018- 2020, Kingston University, Kingston School of Art, London
Summer School 2015, Middlesex University, London
BVA 2013-2017, Stella Maris College, Department of Fine Art, Chennai, India
SOLO SHOWS
It's taking longer to download than it was to puke up, Fulcrum, Bombay, 2026
Rest Now, Sleep Later, ZiMMT, Leipzig, 2022
It’s a Raw State of Mind, Cholamandal Artist’s Village, Chennai, 2018
TWO-PERSON SHOW
A Soft Blanket Of Plants On Tired Bodies, Tasneem Lohani and Mohit Mahato, 1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bengaluru, 2023
I Don't Want to Die Alone, Tasneem Lohani and Leon Watts, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, 2020
GROUP SHOWS
2025
As Tranquil As Can Be, curated by Raqs Media Collective, Serendipity Arts Festival 2025, Goa, India
Sacred Art Space curated by Prof. Anna Krzemińska, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw and Prof.
Tejendra Singh Baoni, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath at at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath,
Bangalore, India
Liminally Yours at Bangalore Art Weekend 2025, curated by The Usual Suspects Gallery, Sabha Blr, Bangalore, India
2024
On Recognition and Betrayal, Experimental Field Recordings performance in association with The I.S.R.O., Bangalore Creative Circus, Bangalore India
LATERAL B(L)INDS curated by Satyam Yadav, Immerse Fellowship alumni exhibition, India Art Fair Parallel, Vis A Vis India / STIR, New Delhi, India
Laugh, curated by Sizzle Lyk Dat Studio, The Wrong Biennale, Pagal Canvas Backyard, Bangalore, India
2023
Listening Academy, Serendipity Arts Festival 2023, Goa, India
bangaloREsidency-Expanded Showcase, Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, India
Falling through a signal, curated by --out-of-line--, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), New Delhi
Feralpy, curated by Jemila McEwan and Amelia Koper Heintzelman, Flux Factory, New York
Print Screen, curated by Roopa Vasudevan & Walker Tufts, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, USA & The Wrong Biennale, Online
Artist Chain, invited by Arebyte Gallery, London for an online self-curated artist-led programme to create an endless digital trail of works, Online
2022
We are the Aliens we are Looking for, part of the Art Fervour Weekender 2022, curated by Tasneem Lohani,
1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore
Proxy, curated by Aurelia and One Project, Iklectik ArtLab, London
Immerse, India Art Fair Parallel, curated by Shaleen Wadhwana, a Carpe Arte x Young Art Support initiative, Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai
Now that the world is ending, Let’s get together, The Wrong Biennale Embassy, 1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery
See-Saw, Sandbox Collective x Goethe Institut Bangalore, Online
2021
Arebyte Gallery Plug-in Exhibition, Arebyte Gallery, London x The Wrong Biennale Embassy, Online
The Wrong Biennale 2021-22, The Wrong TV, Online
ConcreteHouse.ART, Ars Electronica x Art Domains x VR-All-Art, Online
With Her, Website exhibition, www.KoKoMo.Space
2020
Floor Show, MFA Degree Show, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
Surface: The Online Edit, ArtBuzz India
Sharing is Caring, Self-led Community-based Online Instagram Exhibition and Crit
Saturday Crit, One Project, London
2019
There is No New Thing Upon the Earth, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
No Obligation, Solo Presentation, The Swan, London
Zerox, Project Space, Kingston School of Art, London
Participant for Yoko Ono: Looking For.. (’Sky Piece for Jesus Christ’), Downing College, Cambridge
Interim Show, The Swan, London
2018
Forced Empathy, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
Goa Affordable Art Fest, Museum of Goa, Goa
2017
Sound room at October Jam, Marāa, Bengaluru
Megaphone Geurilla, Performance, Marāa, Bengaluru
Reciprocity Fest, Kalakshetra, Chennai
Dhuruvangal, BA Degree Show, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai
2016
Design Fest, Chandra Ilango Art Foundation, Melbourne, Australia
Worldwide Art Movement, Art Maestro Award, International Exhibition, Durbar hall, Kochi
Féte de la Musique, a music festival and Art show, Ambrosia Gallery, Chennai
Beyond Frames, a Public Art Festival, World Art Cafe and Rotary Club at Nageshwara Rao Park, Chennai
Chitramela 2016, an International art exhibition, Achalam Art Gallery, Chennai
2015
South Indian Art Show, Chandra Ilango Art Foundation at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai
Nature and Life, Kasturi Sreenivasan Art Gallery, Coimbatore
Varnajal, painting camp and exhibition, Government College of Arts, Chennai
2014
Mrs. Barbara Sreenivasan Memorial Award for Fine Arts, Kasturi Sreenivasan Art Gallery, Coimbatore
RESIDENCIES
bangaloREsidency-Expanded at ZiMMT, Leipzig in association with Goethe Institut, Bengaluru, 2022
See-Saw Virtual Residency, in association with Sandbox Collective & Goethe Institut, Bengaluru conceptualized by Karen D'mello, Online, 2021
One book Residency, One Project London, London 2020
AWARDS
3rd place, Art installation competition, Reciprocity Fest, 2017, Kalakshetra, Chennai
TALKS & INTERVIEWS
"Politics of Emotional Life on Social Media | Curator Nupur Doshi in Conversation with Artist Tasneem Lohani", The Artist Society Podcast by the Artist Society Collective
"Artistic Journeys: Paths Chosen and Traveled Upon", Bangalore International Centre, March 10, 2024
"Priyanshi Jhaveri in conversation with Tasneem Lohani", Youtube, July, 2022
PRESS
“Tasneem Lohani explores digital memory….”, Abir Pothi, April 18, 2026
"Impressive impressions:...eco-printing", The New Indian Express, April 8, 2025
"...emerging artists...you must watch out for in 2025", Indulge Express, December 20, 2024
"Rest, a look back.", by Sahana Srikanth, April, 2024
"Embassy for The Wrong Biennale 06...the visionary Sizzle Lyk Dat Studio", Rad Art Media, January 23, 2024
"Tasneem Lohani and Mohit Mahato", A Soft Blanket of Plants on Tired Bodies Exhibition Catalogue Essay by Pushpamala N, 2023
"Opening New Doors", Art India, Volume 26, Issue 1, Quarter 1, 2022
“...top 100 candidates...TAF Emerging Artist Award-South Asia 2021”, TAF Award 2021 Catalogue
"Drop it into the letterbox!.....identity and prejudice old style", MEDIUM, January 17, 2022
"The Wrong Biennale provides hope for a new wave of artists", STIRworld, January 3, 2022
”Twenty-two-year-old artist Tasneem Lohani ..... solo exhibition”, THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, August 17, 2018
“Where abstract expressions take shape”, THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, August 1, 2018
“The City’s Sonic Soul”, THE HINDU, October 16, 2017
“Art for Change”, THE HINDU, March 8, 2017
“Social messages via an Art Show in a Public Space”, INDIAN EXPRESS, April 16, 2016