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 Residency, Port Townsend, WA. 

2016 Caldera MFA Artist Residency, Sisters, OR.

 

Exhibitions

2024

Digital Twin, Studio 8, NY

Shrine Room, Amos Eno, NY

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

Intuition and Making: A Conversation with Aruni Dharmakirthi, Cult Classic, 2024

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