vedikakushalappa@gmail.com
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My personal artistic practice explores themes of eco-feminism, land, ecology, and migration. Crafting visual narratives that aim to share stories that are carried over generations that exist encoded in the systems of ecologies that are embedded within.
I have worked alongside communities, clients and individuals crafting activations by integrating embodied experiences and digital stories, in order to foster deeper connection and education among participants. Using design tools such as film, graphic design, workshopping, and curation, I am passionate about facilitating these spaces for collective learning to engage the communities I work with.
Clients: Apple, The Horniman Museum & Gardens, ATÖLYE, kyu House, West Zone Youth Center, The Univercity of Manchester, Jameel Arts Center, Sikka Art and Design Festival, Gorst Road Studios, Al Mashtal Creative Incubator & House, Manarat al Saadiyat, Dubai Design Festival, Alserkal Avenue, Elmarsa gallery, Masbro Centre London.
vedikakushalappa@gmail.com
vedikakushalappa@gmail.com
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Education
Royal College of Arts, London UK
MA Information Experience Design
Parsons School of Design, New York, USA
BFA Integrated Design
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, New York, USA
BA Economics
🗣 Talks, Presentations
2025: Film Screening and Poetry, Royal College of Art
2024: Moderator, Photography Residency, Manarat Al Saadiyat
2024: Internationl Womens Day Talk, Sound Lab Abu Dhbai
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Grants, Programs
2025: CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA, Emerging Practice Award
2023: MAS Photogrpahy Residency Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi)
2022: The Youth Takeover, Jameel Art Center, Dubai UAE, 2022
2022: SAMT Art and Research Residency, Dubai,
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Group Shows
2025: Liminal, Brampton Cemetery, London, 2025: Body, The Hanger Gallery Battersea, London UK
2025: Sacred Groves, RCA White City
2023: Mara, Spectrum Exhibition: Cohort one, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi UAE,
2022: Homebody, Smol, The Youth Takeover, Jameel Art Center, Dubai UAE
2023: Epoch, Dubai Design Week, Dubai Design District, Dubai UAE
2023: Movement, Live Audio-Visual Art Show, Ren House, Dubai UAE
2023: Unseen, Succulence, Fall Art Expo, Brooklyn NY USA
2022: Confluence. Ren House Art Exhibition, Dubai UAE
2023: Flux, Sikka Art and Design Festival, Dubai UAE
2023: Emerge, FAM Art, 25hours Hotels, Dubai UAE
2022: Surrender, SAMT, Volume 5, Art Residency
2017: Pluriversal, Emergent Reflections, Digital Symposium, New York, UAE
🏛️ Curation, Facilitation
2025: Boyancy, Royal College of Art, London
2025: Earth to Earth. Gorst Road Studio, London
2023: KYU House & ATÖLYE Cop28, Alserkal Avenue
2023: Plant Seeds Art Exhibition, The Ren House
2023: Today at Apple: Made for Business,
2022-24: Treehouse Community Curation
2025: Brompton Cemetery Photography Walk, London 2024: Inner Child Workshop, PAUSE, Dubai UAE
2024: Intuitive Painting Workshop, The Hive JVC, Dubai UAE
2023: Regenerative Community Jam, ATÖLYE Cop28, Dubai UAE
2023: Alserkal Lates, Slow Art Work. Alserkal Avenue, Dubai UAE
2022-2023: Painting Workshop, The Ren House, Dubai UAE
2017: Collaborative Painting Workshop, India Home, Queens, New York City USA