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I am an illustrator, educator, cartoonist and reportage artist born and raised in India and based between Providence and New York City.
Through autobiographical comics, zines, graphic novels, visual essays, drawings on location gouache paintings and illustrated interviews with members of my local community, my work strives to capture and communicate instances of emotional connection and intimacy, queer immigrant culture and conversations people have over meals.
I am interested in why people from specific associations with food in our childhoods and how these relationships with food play out in their lives as adults.
Get in touch if you'd like make something together!
Follow me on Instagram : @TheJackfruitSlayer
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EXHIBITIONS:
University of the Arts, Library (Comics Collection)
Frick Fine Arts Library (Zine Collection)
Boston Book Arts Fair
Space Gallery, Portland
Zanbeel Art Gallery: Mapping Out A Field
Rendez-vous Carnet Du Voyage
(Travel Illustration Festival in France)
Comic Arts Brooklyn
Toronto Comic Arts Festival
MoCCA Arts Festival
Pittsburgh Zine Fest (PZF)
Printed Matter NY
NY Independent Art Book Fair
Jersey City City Hall
Philly Comics Expo (PCX)
Women That Rock
Vancouver Comic Arts Festival
SVA Gramercy Gallery
School of Visual Arts Book Show
Panels To The People
Carousel : Quarantined
12th Street Journal
Push Pull
OCD Chocolate
Smush Gallery
Greenpoint Gallery
Parsons Gala
Secrets Risograph show (Hamburg, NYC)
Optikal Asylum (Mumbai)
Kulture Shop Mumbai
Domino Books
Partners And Son, Philadelphia
EDUCATION
Parsons School of Design
B.F.A in Illustration 2019,
Dean’s List, GPA: 3.95
School of Visual Arts
M.F.A in Illustration 2021,
Merit Scholarship Awardee 2019, 2020
AWARDS
ADC Young Ones Portfolio Award 2021
D&AD New Blood Portfolio Award 2021
Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement in Master's Program 2021
MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence 2021
SVA Alumni Scholarship Award 2021
SVA Merit Scholarship 2020, 2019
Departmental Honors at Parsons Graduation
Nominated for Will Eisner Scholarship
Parsons Learning Portfolio Contest
Parsons Sketchbook Contest
All India Rank: 31/50000 in the 2014 NIFT
(National Institute of Fashion Technology Entrance Examination)
CLIENTS
Spotify X Acrylicize
Ole & Steen
D & AD X Accenture
D&AD White Pencil Labs X HP Indigo
The New Yorker Magazine
Clos du Bois X Foundry Creative Lab at Meredith Corp
Food and Wine Magazine
The Wilderness Society
PR Council
Committee for Children
JinglePunks X Anthem Entertainment X iHeart Radio
Madame Poupon
Uber India X Gaysi (LGBTQ+ Non - Profit in Mumbai)
Pratham Books
Rendez-vous Carnet Du Voyage - Reportage Fest in France
Aval Cider
529 Collective
Bombay Municipal Corp. X Institute of Psychiatric Health
Zanbeel Art
Table Talk
SPACE Gallery
PUBLICATIONS
The New Yorker
Food & Wine Magazine
Food & Spectacle Magazine
PRINT Mag: Graphic Design
Paper Planes
Fruition: Space Gallery
The Nation: Opp Art
PRINT Magazine: The Daily Heller
American Illustration 38
American Illustration 41
VICE
Spring 2022: Cake Zine Vol 1
Tampon Rock
Seattle Times
Hollywood Life
The Comics Beat
TCAF Digital Showcase
致美ARTS (Zhimei Arts)
12th Street Journal Art
12th Street Journal Fiction
Smoke Signal
Beholder Magazine Issue 2
Beholder Magazine Issue 1
The New School Free Press
Speciwomen Magazine (Interview)
True North Country Comics Podcast (Interview)
Vagabomb
Gaysi: InstaQueers You Should Follow
LANGUAGES
Fluent in : English, Hindi, Marathi
Beginner in : Bengali, French, Urdu
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