​Anoushka Bhalla's practice is a visual research into the materialization of collective trauma and the decay of intergenerational memory. Her art, vacillating between drawing, painting and sculpture, and between the abstract and the representational, is derived from archival images and literature of the British Colonial Empire and the devastating legacy it left in her homeland of India and South Asia, which continues to reverberate globally. Born out of histories of trauma, colonial labor and famines, and the Western Oriental gaze, she engages with art-making to contend with the loss of her ancestors and countless others who were martyred to forgotten bloodbaths.

Using symbolically charged, primordial and archaeological elements like terracotta, carbon, ash, dirt, and shellac that are symbolic of an incinerated earth, the weight of history and the passage of time, the imagery in her work addresses portraits of colonized bodies and wounds evoking the unconscious of a collective past.

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Anoushka Bhalla (b. India) is an artist based in New York City. She completed her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2023. Her recent solo shows include ‘A Pound of Flesh’ at Charmoli Ciarmoli, NYC and ‘An Endless Journey’ at SVA CP Space. Her works have also been exhibited at O'Flaherty's gallery, Elza Kayal Gallery, Rajiv Menon Contemporary LA, Charmoli Ciarmoli NYC, San Francisco Art Fair, Downtown Arts Center, SVA Chelsea Gallery, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Space118 Gallery Mumbai and Space Studios India. Bhalla has been awarded the Woman Artist of the Year by the Government of India, was a FABnyc Young Artists of Color Fellow, a resident at Space Studio India, and was named one of the top emerging artists from India by the Foundation for Indian Art.

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