Educational Background
2017 MFA, Visual Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art, OR.
2013 Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art and Art History, Florida State University, FL.
Residencies and Awards
2021 A4A Production Fund, Sri Lanka
2019 American Craft Council Equity Award
2018 Bric Workspace Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Centrum Emerging Artist, Port Townsend, WA.
2016 Caldera MFA Artist Residency, Sisters, OR.
Exhibitions
2024
Roadside Shrine, Das Schaufenster, WA
2023
Inordinate Skies, Khoj, New Delhi
llliquid Objects, Studio 9D, NY
Encounters, Amos Eno, NY
A4A, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2022
888, Center for Performance Research, NY
Monsoon Lotus, Three Jewels, NY
Portals, Nationale, OR
2020
The Telethon, The Salon, NY
Public Fruit, NY
FRC7, flatratecontemporary.com
Making the Cut, Transmitter, NY
No Flowers In Eden, Nationale, OR
2019
PDX Window Project , PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, OR
2018
Women of Colour, School of Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada
Open Studios, Bric, NY
We Could Forever, Housing, NY
South Asian American Art Festival, PICA, OR
2017
Art In Odd Places, Orange Ave, FL
Soon: South Asian Evocation and Becomings, Chinatown Soup, NY
Forbidden Knowledge, Furthermore, OR
PNCA MFA Visual Studies Thesis Exhibition, Falcon Building, OR
Basement and ofYolk, OV Project Space, OR.
Transference, KillJoy, OR
Photographing The Female, Sonam Studios, Mumbai, India
Four, Gallery 114, OR
Et de Siege, a performative lecture curated by Michele Fielder, Disjecta, OR
2016
Dys U, Gallery 2-Washington State University, Wa
Aesthetic of Dislocation, Nat Turner Project, OR
Ritual Resilience, Lodge Gallery, OR
First, They Sleep, Soft Space, OR
Places You Can’t Remember, Lodge Gallery, OR
Momentum, Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Lab, OR
All Small Gods, Picture Garden, FL
Press
Meet Aruni Dharmakirthi, ProDPI, 2023
One Piece by Aruni Dharmakirthi, Over Time I Taught Myself…, Sarah Burney, Kajal Magazine, 2022
VizArts Monthly, Martha Daghlian, Oregon ArtsWatch, 2020
Critical Viewing, Lindsay Costello, Art and About PDX,2020
Recommended Visual Arts Exhibitions, Portland Mercury,2020
Shining a Light on Portland’s Art Scene, Raechel Herron Root, Hyperallergic, 2019