Akshata Naik

Akshata Naik
Born 1990 (age 25–26)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Education Masters in Visual Arts painting,sculpture
Known for Painting, installation, sculpture & art curator
Movement RED ART

Akshata Naik (born 1990 Mumbai, Maharashtra) is an internationally renowned painter art critic. She Appointed as a DEAN at Faculty of Fine Arts, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. she was awarded two Gold Medals in 2014 and Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda for her contribution to art.

Early life

Akshata was born in 1990 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She studied painting at Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda and De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Career

Akshata Naik career in 2015 when she joined as a lecturer in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Parul University, Baroda. Her teaching positions have included teaching Painting in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Parul University, Baroda (from 2015) She has been an Artist in Residence at the De Montfort University, Leicester, UK in 2015 and was invited to exhibit her recent works at the Artcore Gallery in UK. The exhibition Bloody Boats by Akshata Naik on view at the Artcore Gallery was very well received by the curators, art appreciators, academicians, art collectors along with the BBC News and Derby Telegraph Newspaper. Akshata has been a major figure in the world of emerging Indian artist.

Born in 1990 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Akshata adopted Baroda as her own city. She migrated to Baroda and started her education in Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 2008. Her upbringing in Mumbai has been in a middle class Saraswat Brahmin family where her father was a Maharashtrian and kannadiga mother from Gokarna, Karnataka. She is influenced from both these cultures. There is a close tie-in between her time in Mumbai and migrating to baroda, as an act of mapping the regions, which gives to the speaking subject the possibility of addressing the world as her own. Recently Akshata had been working on the Bloody Boats series where she showcases the fragile life governed by violence and terrorism that world is facing in various countries, especially addressing the migrant issues in Syria.

Akshata lives with her designer-husband TK in Vadodara, India.

Exhibitions

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