Biraaj Dodiya presents a series of collaged drawings on paper. Combining images from the artist’s point and shoot camera, with watercolor and ink drawings - the works construct a cryptic geography, connecting body and landscape, imagined and urban. The immediacy and physical lucidity of water-based materials, combined with images of exterior worlds (mostly shot in close surroundings of current or past studio spaces) evoke a sense of transparency – of material and of making. These function as a prequel to larger paintings; they contain diagrams, suggestions, clues, questions, spontaneous conjurings and ways of looking. Construction, decay, formation and collapse become verbs of a poetic interchangeability; the image arrived at is a tentative map of the world charting a choreography for searching.

Biraaj Dodiya (b. 1993) lives and works in Mumbai. Education: 2018 Master of Fine Arts, New York University, New York; 2015 Bachelors of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Painting and Drawing, School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago, Chicago; 2013 Summer Program, Painting and Art History, specializing in Italian Pre-Renaissance and Renaissance Art history, Syracuse University, Florence, Italy. Solo exhibitions: 2022 Every bone a song, Experimenter; 2020 Stone is a Forehead, Experimenter; 2017 Burn your finger, And kiss it yourself, 80WSE, New York. Group exhibitions: 2024 News from home, Galerie Derouillon, Paris; 2024 Passages, Encounter, Lisbon; 2023 Shadow Speak, Bureau New York; 2022, Civitella Ranieri Chapel Show, Umbria, Italy; 2022, Can You Hear Me?, Vermont Studio Center, VT, USA; 2022, A Handful of Dust, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; 2021 Transitory Forms, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 2021 The Profound Object, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; 2021, Frieze New York OVR;2021 08:01, Art Dubai, Dubai; 2021 Do You Know How To Start A Fire?, Experimenter, Bikaner House, New Delhi; 2021 (ME)(MORY),Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; 2020 Rupture, Frieze London OVR; Do you know how to start a fire,Art Basel OVR: 2020; In Touch Edition 1:Together We Survive, Experimenter OVR; Fragmented Views, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Off Plane View, Frieze New York OVR; Remnants as Traces, Art Dubai OVR; India Art Fair, New Delhi, India;2019 Architectural Digest Design Show, Mumbai, India; 2018 NYU Performance Video Art Show curated by Sue de Beer, Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York; NYU MFA Thesis Show Part I, 80WSE, New York; 2017 in medias res, 80WSE, New York; Send Your Location, 33 Orchard, New York; NYU MFA First Year Exhibition, 80WSE, New York; 2016 Xenophilia, Eye on India, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, Illinois; Luminarts Cultural Foundation: Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; 2015 Still Collisions, Locallective, Chicago, Illinois; Bed, Bath and Beyond, Johnson, Vermont, USA; Cubical the Musical: A Survey of Work by Advanced Painting Class, Chicago, Illinois; Advanced Pain, Crybaby Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, Illinois; 2014 Or, Just Come Over, Outhouse, Chicago, Illinois; PickleJuiceJeanJacket curated by Ursula Andreeff, Stone Soup Ashland Cooperative, Chicago, Illinois; 2013 IceCreamPaintJob curated by Ursula Andreeff, Stone Soup Ashland Cooperative, Chicago, Illinois; Photograph Chicago, Nuveen Center, SAIC, Chicago, Illinois. Residencies and awards: 2022, Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellow, Italy; 2018, Jack Goodman Scholarship in Art and Technology; 2015, Vermont Studio Center Visual Arts Fellow, USA.