Ashwini Bhat

Ashwini Bhat
Born
Puttur, India
AwardsUnited States Artists Fellowship and The Howard Foundation Fellowship for Sculpture
Websiteashwinibhat.com

Ashwini Bhat is an artist, based in California. Bhat uses sculptures, installations, video, and text, to develop a unique visual language exploring the intersections between body and nature, self and other.[1] Her work draws inspiration from her home in the foothills of Sonoma Mountains, California as well as her rural agrarian community upbringing in Southern India.[2] Her work focuses on California’s ecology in this time of climate change and shifting habitats.[3]

  1. ^ "BOMB Magazine".
  2. ^ "ARTSY: Curator's Choice: South Asian Artists Addressing Migration through New Artifacts".
  3. ^ "Sculpting California, Post-Fire".