Born in 1993 in Varanasi, India, Janhavi Khemka is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She completed her Master of Studio Art degree in print media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. 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.
Recently she received a Printmaking Today Graduate Award for Winter Issues Magazine in December 2022 from Cello Press Limited, Witney, UK. In 2023, she was selected to present a solo exhibition at Comfort Station in Logan Square, Chicago. She has recently been invited to attend a residency Kala’s Artist in Residence Program at Berkely, California and will begin a three-month 3Arts/Bodies of Work residency in Fall 2023.
Featured Artworks
Letter to My Mother
Stop motion animation from woodcut print, video projection, sound, vibration, plywood platform. 72 inches x 48 inches x 3 inches. 2023. Duration: 3.32 minutes loop
Photo and Video credits - Mikey Mosher
Warning: It is time
Woodcut prints on rives BFK paper (3 Series). 88 x 42 inches. 2023.
Comfort Station, Chicago. Photo credit: Mikey Mosher
My Room as Hell
Woodcut prints on rives BFK paper and Animation on the projection. 33 x 22 inches. 2021
Photo and Video credits - Janhavi Khemka and Mikey Mosher
#1505
Performance, Art and Technology, Utensils, Plywood Platform, Mic, AMP. Size variable, and platform: 36 inches x 36 inches x 3 inches. 2023
Comfort Station, Chicago. Photo and Video credit: Mikey Mosher
“चटाई”
Woodcut print, plywood platform. 72 inches x 48 inches x 2 inches. 2021
Photo and Video credits - Janhavi Khemka and Mikey Mosher
Sleeping
Woodcut print. 4 panels of 96 x 24 inches (each); a small panel of 14 x 11 inches. 2022
Photo credits - Mikey Mosher
#1621
Charcoal on the Paper. Life size of doors (six series). 2022
Photo credits - Janhavi Khemka