Shikha Patel
Conceptual Art · Uttar Pradesh
Shikha Patel, born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, is a highly accomplished figurative painter and muralist. She completed her BFA (Painting) and MFA (Painting) from Banaras Hindu University in 2015 and 2017, respectively. Currently, she is a JRF-SRF qualified Research Scholar at the Faculty of Visual Arts, BHU, studying Self-referential Art Practices in Contemporary Indian Art.
She has presented several research papers on visual arts at national and international conferences. Her contributions to contemporary art have been recognized through numerous awards, including the Art for Hope Grant from Hyundai (2023), Junior Fellowship (2019), Young Artist Scholarship (2016), Prafulla Dahanukar Award (2016), and selection in the National Art Exhibition, among others.
Shikha has participated in several prestigious national exhibitions and art camps, including Students’ Kochi Biennale (2016), Jaipur Art Summit (2017), WZCC Art Camp, Ahmedabad (2019), Lalit Kala Regional Painting Camp (2019), and Kala Kumbh by NGMA (2021), Lucknow Art Fair CIAF- 2025, 64th National Exhibition of Art (2025) and recently exhibited in her solo show at Jehangir Art Gallery (2025). Along with her personal art practice Shikha has almost thirteen years of professional experience as a muralist. She has done more than 30 small murals in private spaces to large scale public murals in various mediums including wall paintings, to cement carving across the country. Which includes some remarkable works in different faculties and Museum of BHU.
Works
- Back to Home — Shikha Patel
- I AM AWARE OF THE WAY YOU STARE — Shikha Patel
- Mangal Utsav — Shikha Patel
- Mask Up — Shikha Patel
- Sabha Samvad Sahmati — Shikha Patel
- Save the Sofa — Shikha Patel
- She Grow Plants In Her Womb — Shikha Patel
- The Brick Forest — Shikha Patel
- The Graffiti On Red Fort — Shikha Patel
- The Pose With Taj Mahal — Shikha Patel
- Window Of Escape 2 — Shikha Patel
- उसे मखमल के काले काउच पर बिठाया, मगर वो पीपल की पीली परछाईं ढूंढ रहा था(They seated him on the black velvet couch, yet he kept searching for the pale-yellow shade of the peepal). — Shikha Patel
- वो चप्पलें दुरुस्त करता रहा, फिर भी लोग गलत चालें चलते रहे (He went on repairing chappals, and still people went on taking wrong steps) — Shikha Patel
- वो चार पंखुड़ियों वाले चंद फूल थे, किसी ने चार उंगलियों से उन्हें तोड़ दिया — Shikha Patel