Adarsh Palandi (b.1995, Damoh) is a Mumbai-based visual artist and printmaker whose practice blends engraving, etching, and serigraphy to explore the interplay of internal experience and external environments.

Akash Biswas, originally from the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, is an artist whose work reflects the fragile beauty and threats facing marine ecosystems.

Drawing on his island roots, he creates visual meditations on coral loss, overfishing, and the urgent need for balance between development and ecology

Amith Nayak is a Bangalore-based sculptor whose work explores raw human emotions, drawing from personal experiences, shared narratives, and everyday objects.

Influenced by mechanisms and materials, his sculptures evoke memory, identity, and the human condition through a visceral, introspective practice.

Anup, from Mallarpur in West Bengal, is a visual artist whose practice investigates “queer landscape,” mapping the socio-emotional and cultural terrains of queer identities in local contexts.

A graduate of Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, Anup has received awards like the Inlaks Fine Art Award and Gender Bender Grant, merging aesthetics with community engagement.

Bhanu Shrivastav, a visual artist from Haryana now based in Bangalore, works in printmaking and expanded media.

A 2025 IMMERSE Fellow, he has exhibited internationally, including at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Emami Art Gallery.

Bhavin Patel, born in Variav near Surat, is an artist whose practice reflects the tensions between rural life, farming, and urbanisation.

Trained in Baroda and Surat, he blends metaphor and object-based work to explore agrarian experiences, recently returning to Surat to deepen this engagement.

Bheeshma Sharma (b.1993) is a visual artist and sculptor from Imphal, Manipur, whose work draws on themes of ecology, tectonics, and ancestral memory.

His sculptures and installations evoke eerie, shifting landscapes shaped by personal history, regional geopolitics, and the physicality of his homeland.

Hasanali Kadiwala is a Vadodara-based artist from Siddhpur, Gujarat, whose printmaking practice draws on memory, spirituality, and abstraction.

Inspired by Azaan, Urdu script, and village skies, his work evokes longing and freedom, with exhibitions across India and abroad and fellowships including IMMERSE 2025.

Richa Arya (b.1997, Haryana) is a sculptor whose installations repurpose scrap metal to reflect the feminized labor of migrant and urban women.

A graduate of Delhi University, she has exhibited widely, won awards like the FICA EEA+ Emerging Artists Award, and continues her practice from her Greater Noida studio.

Satyanarayana Gavara (b.1997, Andhra Pradesh) is a printmaker whose woodcut works examine hunger, agrarian struggle, and the resilience of farming communities.

Rooted in his upbringing among tenant farmers, his art uses food as a motif to highlight exploitation and the social role of sustenance in rural life.

Shikha Soni (b.1999, Baroda) is a visual artist whose intimate drawings, paintings, and photographs reflect on selfhood, emotional complexity, and familial memory.

Using the family album as a key motif, her work translates feeling into form, with exhibitions at India Art Fair, Kochi Biennale, and DotWalk Gallery.

Siddharth Soni, a multidisciplinary artist from Udaipur, blends painting, photography, installations, and new media to explore socio-political landscapes.

A second-generation artist trained at Kala Bhavana, his work reflects on equality, propaganda, and local belief systems through contemporary forms.