Vanshika Agrawal was born in Jalaun, India, in 1999, and currently lives and works in Rome. She has exhibited in Austria, China, Egypt, and Italy with a private collector in Berlin. Her solo exhibitions include Just Ignore It, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2022); Tra Loro, Galleria GSL, San Lorenzo, Rome (2023); Dust to Dust, Studio 110, Rome (2024).
Among her group exhibitions: Something Else Symposium, Citadel, Cairo; Art Auction 13, Weserhalle, Berlin; Subterranean Frequencies, Studio Arte Pisani, Rome; Feet of Clay, American Academy in Rome; Giovani Generazioni in Umbria, Museo Dinamico del Laterizio e delle Terracotte, Marsciano, Perugia; Moriana, AAIE Art Center for Contemporary Art, Rome; Dake Museum of Art, Chengdu, China; Luci Nel Buio, Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence ; Rivers and Roads, Meandering Stories of India, AAIE Art Center for Contemporary Art, Rome; Vicino Lontano, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Palazzo d’Accursio, Bologna , Mirò Hall of UNESCO, Paris; Biennale di Lucca Cartasia, Lucca; Accade, La Nuova Pesa, Rome. In 2023, she was artist in residence at Sommer.Frische.Kunst in Bad Gastein, Austria.
Vanshika’s work draws on an equilibrium between knowing and not knowing. Through embodied gestures, rituals, and repetition, she investigates themes of identity, memory, and cultural transmission. Blending poetry, performances, paintings, drawings, and installations to create ephemeral spaces that narrate transcendence. She is inclined towards the notion of “white,” not as a color but as a sensory experience—an idea influenced by Kenya Hara. White becomes a metaphor for ambiguity and stillness to reconnect with unspoken narratives. She recontextualizes cultural semiotics to uncover the emotional and historical labor embedded in them. Her work emphasizes collective histories that emerge from the person through movement and the body’s connection to its immediate surroundings.
