Shilpa Nayudu
Born 06 May 1987
Lives and works in Goa, India
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Shilpa Nayudu is a visual artist whose practice explores the human body as a site of fragility, resilience, and innate intelligence. Working across textile, painting, embroidery, and participatory formats, she follows a process-led approach to reflect on care, repair, and embodied experience.
She studied Contemporary Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Trained as a Dental surgeon, she has also served in the Indian Army. These varied experiences shape a materially grounded, research-led practice that bridges artistic inquiry with medical knowledge. She turns inward to illuminate the body’s wonderous landscapes while remaining attentive to its shared, collective nature.
Education
2017 Foundation In Contemporary Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
2009 Bachelor of Dental Surgery, Govt. Dental College, Aurangabad , MUHS Nashik
Group Exhibitions and Art Residencies
2026 “Mapping Periphery and Centre” Group exhibition, Chitrakala Parishad Bangalore, India
2026 “Tender Territories” Group exhibition, Borderland Residencies at Art Dusseldorf 2026, Germany
2026-25 Resident at Bordeland Residency Programme, Kulturraum Niederrhein, EU
2026 “Quiet Forces” Group Exhibition, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2026 “Showcase BangaloREsidency – Expanded 2025” at Goethe Insitut, Bangalore
2026 “Threads Through Time” Group exhibition, Goa Open Arts Festival, Panjim, Goa
2025 “Residency presentation” , Group exhibition at Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
2025 Resident at Weltkunstzimmer Residency, Düsseldorf, Germany as a part of BangaloResidency Programme by Goethe Centrum, Bangalore
2025 “Goa Dairies” Printmaking Workshop under the mentorship of artist Kavita Shah at Arthshila, Goa
2025 “Yellow Brick Road” Group Exhibition, Gallery Eikowa Contemporary, Gurugram
2024 International Print Exchange Programme (IPEP), Edition 11, India
2024 “Everyday objects Shriek Aloud” online workshop mentorship of artist Apurva Kulkarni
2024 “Beyond Walls” Group Exhibition, SAIL 3 Sunaparanta – Goa Centre for the arts, Panjim.
2023 Resident at Sunaparanta Art Initiator Lab (SAIL), Goa. Under the mentorship of Lina Vincent, curator and art historian.
2023 “Poetry in Colour” Group Exhibition at Institute Camões, Goa
2023 Featured in Studio Visit Book – Arts To Hearts Project
2022 Solo Exhibition at Gaiety Theatre and Cultural Complex, Shimla
2022 “Amche Mangrove” – The Earthiest Collective Art Project, Goa
2021 Featured in “Create!” Magazine Edition #28
2020 Founded her Studio – “Raah”
2019 Space 118 Art Residency, Mumbai
2019 Open studio at Mumbai Gallery Weekend
2017 Slade School of Fine Art, London
Collaborations
2025 “Autonomous”, Sound Installation, in collaboration with Artist Divesh Gadekar, Panjim, Goa
2025 Collaborative artwork with Artist Bram Niesz, Freibad, Dusseldorf
2024 “Threads” a performance in collaboration with Dancer Impana Kulkarni , SAIL 3, Sunaparanta
Workshops
2025 “We Are all one” a Participatory Community Art Project, Goa – Dusseldorf – Bangalore.
2025 Children’s Cyanotype Workshop for IPEP Edition 11, Jaipur
2024 “Understanding Rasa through the lens of Pain”, ft Impana Kulkarni
2024 Relief Printmaking Workshop at Studio Raah, Goa
2023 Cyanotype Workshop for SAIL programme, Sunaparanta, Goa
2023 Cyanotype Workshop, Studio Raah , Goa
2022 Cyanotype and Drypoint Workshop, Studio Raah Shimla
2022 Cyanotype Workshop for the Earthivist Collective, Goa
2019 Relief Printmaking Workshops , Studio Raah Conoor
Commissions
2020 Acrylic painting on Canvas for the Office Of ADCs’ of President of India, The Rashtrapati Bhawan
2018 Masaba Gupta – The Good Cow Café and Store, Hyderabad in collaboration with Artist Rohit Mirdoddi