Bio

Tulika Ladsariya is an Indian artist, born in Mumbai- living and working in Chicago. Working with the sentiment of longing, her work explores the footprint left behind by the invisible labor of motherhood and migration. Through her ceramics, she explores the space of un-belonging and attempts to bring those who feel ‘othered’ to come together in cross cultural dialogue and understanding. Her propagation vessels allow for a space to root, whilst her vases and boats use her mother’s embroidery and tatting to create texture and use the clay’s memory to preserve her own. Her work mulls on the sentiment that for a first-generation migrant the in-between is oft the ‘home’.

Qualified as a Chartered Accountant, she transitioned to a creative full-time studio practice after her stint at an auction house in India. Her art has been widely exhibited in the USA and India notably at the Hammond Museum NY, Ralph Arnold Gallery- Loyola University, Hyde Park Art Center, Woman-made Gallery, Expo Chicago, Chicago Art Department, Jamaat Art gallery Mumbai and Art Heritage Gallery New Delhi.

She has contributed to several public art projects including the streetscape design for Devon Avenue (little India) and the terrain biennale. Through community programming- she invites participants to engage in growing roots, meditative inward looking and cross-cultural exploration. Tulika is the recipient of the South Asian Artists Relief fund, the Make/Together grant from the ATHENA foundation and the recipient of the Illinois Art Fund- 3 Arts Relief grant 2020.