Rekha Rodwittiya

Rekha Rodwittiya is an artist, independent curator, writer, and teacher having around 40 years of experience in the field of art. She has established a strong, politically vigilant feminist practice that sanctioned her representation of the female figure in a non-voyeuristic manner. The stories of women, valiant in their courage to overcome the oppression of patriarchy, are potent im- prints of significance for her, and etch powerful legacies that she chooses to emulate and imbibe from. Rodwittiya states, “It is these many stories of feminist endeavour within which I have been cradled, that shapes my perception to negotiate a journey of living that places my energies to conjoin with these ancestries of determination and courage.” She has had 38 solo exhibitions across the world, and has been presented nationally and internationally in 130 exhibitions group exhibitions, 16 art fairs across and numerous residencies and site specific projects. Her works are part of important private collections the world over, and are also held in numerous public collections in India and abroad. She has been actively involved in art teaching through alternative non-institutionalised methods, as well as being a guest faculty at art colleges in India and abroad; and is the founder and CEO of The Collective Studio Baroda. She is vocal within the space of feminist discourse, and a champion of women’s empowerment and equal rights. Rodwittiya lives and works in Baroda.