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Janhavi Khemka

Janhavi Khemka

Interdisciplinary Artist
Chicago, City of Chicago, Cook

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About Janhavi Khemka:

Born in 1993 in Varanasi, Janhavi Khemka is an interdisciplinary artist in India and Chicago. She attends the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in pursuit of a Master of fine arts degree in print media. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting and printmaking from the Faculty of Visual Art, Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India (2015) and a Master of Fine art in printmaking from Graphics Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan (2017). Her current artistic research has an intersection of traditional printmaking, animation, fiber arts, and performance. She has exhibited her artwork in regional, national, and international galleries and institutions throughout the United States, India, Norway, Korea, and the United Kingdom.

Experience

Teaching Experience 

2022         Fall Semester Teaching Assistantship, Printmedia Practice, Faculty: Jaspar Goodrich, SAIC, Chicago, IL

                  Fall Semester Teaching Assistantship, Beginning Lithography, Faculty: Brian Rush, SAIC, Chicago, IL

                  Worker as Staff, Printshop, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

                  Spring Semester Teaching Assistantship, Beginning Lithography, Faculty: Brian Rush, SAIC, Chicago, IL

                  Workshop Woodcut with Deaf students, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

2021         Fall Semester Teaching Assistantship, Relief Prints: Coll Folios (Relief Folios), Faculty: Oli Watt, SAIC, Chicago,    

2019         Printmaking shop, Woodcut workshop with Children, Suchana School, Santiniketan, India 

2017         Pahli Uadaan, Loka Project, Woodcut workshop with Children, Loka, Bihar, India

                  Barbil Art Project 3, Tales from the Land, Utsha Foundation, Woodcut workshop with Children, Odisha, India

Achievement And Grant / Awards 

2022         Printmaking Today, State of the Award, Graduate artist, Cello Press Limited, Witney, UK

2021         Holy Hunt Graduate Fellowship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2021         Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation, Merit Grand Award in Printmaking, Churchgate, Mumbai, India 

2018         Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation, Uttar Pradesh State Award in Printmaking, Churchgate, Mumbai, India 

2016         Young Artist in Santiniketan, First Award in Printmaking, SSVAD, Santiniketan, India

2014         First award in Annual Exhibition, Faculty of Visual Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India 

Participial Workshops 

2018         Japanese Woodblock Printmaking with Artist Paul Furneaux, Edinburgh, UK

                  National Printmaking Camp, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, College of Arts, Bengaluru, India 

                  International Graphic Arts Festival, Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh, India 

2016         Research Programmer, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh 

                  Kala Uday, Woodcut print, Department of Fine Arts, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India 

2010         Miniature Painting workshop, Gyaan Pravaha, Varanasi, India 

                  Printshop work, Kala Bhavan, Bhopal, India

Participation in Conference 

2022         Illinois ASL Student, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

                  The Mid America Print Council, Kent State University, School of Art Kent, Ohio, US

                  Our Future Share, SGIC International, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, US

 

 

Education

Education

2022         Master of Fine Arts Studio Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 

2017         Master of Fine Arts Printmaking, Graphics Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, WB, India  

2015         Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting and Printmaking, Faculty of Visual Art, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, India 

 

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