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The Inlaks Fine Art Awardees 2025

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The Inlaks Fine Art Award 2025

We are delighted to welcome the Inlaks Fine Art Awardees for 2025.

Akartha Halder

Akartha Halder’s art practice embraces a multidisciplinary approach, assembling forms and narratives that document socio-political absences and disappearances. Through his work, he constructs a thought process around materials, processes, and the interplay between presence and absence, creating a conversation that develops into a critical dialogue. 

Biswajit Thakuria

Biswajit Thakuria is a visual artist whose practice revolves around social memories and landscape dialogues. He investigates landscapes as intricate, multi-layered phenomena, aiming to revisit significant events from Assam’s past by engaging with archival memories, both public and private.

Ritika Sharma

Ritika Sharma is a visual artist interested in investigating everyday practices, experiences, observations, local spaces, and their involved politics through her mixed media works.

Swapna Halder

Swapna Halder is a multidisciplinary visual art practitioner whose work embodies a profound commitment to hope.  Her artistic journey is characterized by continuous evolution and a deep engagement with diverse mediums, including drawing, painting, film, photography, stop-motion animation, poetry, interviews, and sound gathering.

Vanshika Babbar

Vanshika Babbar is a multidisciplinary artist. Her practice engages with the political dimensions of subjective formations, observing the multiple acts, performances and operations of power in interpersonal relationships, in an attempt to interrogate mundanity while simultaneously trying to find redemption in it. 

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The Inlaks Fine Art Award

Recognises upcoming artists to undertake independent work in India with a stipulation to attend a recognised Art Residency programme for four weeks during the year.