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EDUCATION
2007 Fine Arts Diploma (honours), Langara College, Vancouver BC
2002 Bachelor of Education (K-7), University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Kelowna Art Gallery
2021 What If?, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
2021 Beast of Burden, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver BC
2019 She Left Only To Come Back, Art Rentals + Sales Program operated by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 Rest In Power, The Gam Gallery, Vancouver BC

SELECT TWO-PERSON & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Playhouse, Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver BC
2023 Rise (in collaboration with Sara Khan), Evergreen Gallery, Coquitlam BC
2022 New Work (Brendan Tang with Sandeep Johal), Gallery Jones, Vancouver BC
2023 100 Amigos (presented by Drew Young, Douglas Coupland and Pablo Zamudio), Vancouver BC
2021 Together Again, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver BC
2021 Small Scale Right Hemisphere Part II, Gallery Jones, Vancouver BC
2020 Vancouver Mural Festival Year 5 Gallery Show, Vancouver BC
2019 The Return of 100 Amigos (presented by Drew Young and Pablo Zamudio), Vancouver BC
2019 Vancouver Mural Festival Year 4 Gallery Show, Vancouver BC
2019 In/Visible: Body as Reflective Site, The McClure Gallery and the Visual Arts Centre in partnership with the IMPACTS Project
(McGill University), Montreal QC
2017 Vancouver Mural Festival Year 2 Gallery Show, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver BC
2016 Pantone Presents, The Gam Gallery, Vancouver BC

SELECT PUBLIC PROJECTS
2023 Window vinyl, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
2022 The Lantern City, Vancouver BC
2020 Luminocity, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC
2019 Facade Festival, Burrard Arts Foundation in partnership with Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2018 Starweaver (in collaboration with Debra Sparrow), Indian Summer Festival, Vancouver BC
2018  Museum Bhavan, Indian Summer Festival in partnership with Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 Canada 150 Street Banner, Public Art Program, Surrey BC

SELECT MURAL PROJECTS
2023 Community Mural Project in conjunction with Des Pardes Exhibition, The Reach Gallery, Abbotsford BC
2021 Spotlight Van Art Rental, Vancouver Art Gallery in partnership with Art Rental and Sales, Vancouver BC
2021 Murals in the Market, Vancouver Mural Festival Special Community Project, Vancouver BC
2021 Community Mural Project, Ross Park, Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre, Vancouver BC
2020 #MakeArtWhileApart, Vancouver Mural Festival in partnership with Robson BIA, Vancouver BC
2019 Taike-Sye'yə, Vancouver Mural Festival Special Community Project, Vancouver BC
2019 Bard on the Beach 30th Anniversary Mural, Vancouver BC
2019 Altars in conjunction with Moving Still: Performative Photography from India, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2018  Art Smash, Granville Island x Vancouver Mural Festival, Vancouver BC
2017 Mural Design, Front Street Mews Barrier, New Westminster BC

SELECT TEACHING & COMMUNITY EVENTS
2024 Art For Kids Workshop, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, BC
2023 Collaborative Youth Art-Making Workshop, Evergreen Gallery, Coquitlam BC
2023 Emerging Creators Incubator, Evergreen Gallery, Coquitlam BC
2023 Exquisite Corpse Collage Party, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC
2021 Spring Into Art, Spring Break Break Family Programs, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC (online)
2020 In Motion, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC (online)
2018 Wisdom Stones Workshop, Pause Pavilion, Indian Summer Festival, Vancouver BC
2017 Mandala Workshop, Arts & Heath Elder Dance Program, Moberly Arts & Cultural Center, Vancouver BC

COLLECTIONS
TD Art Collection
Global Affairs Canada Visual Art Collection Program, Canadian Embassy, San Salvador
Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver BC
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
Earls Grandview Corners, Surrey BC
Indian Summer Festival, Vancouver BC
Earls Ambleside, West Vancouver BC

SELECT ART DONATION
2023 Splash, Arts Umbrella
2022 Swim, Drink, Fish Auction
2020 Indian Summer Festival Virtual Fundraiser
2020 BC Women’s Health Foundation Virtual Auction
2019 Art For Life, Dr. Peter Aids Foundation
2018 Maple Batalia Memorial Scholarship for the Arts, South Asian Fashion Week
2017 Fall Gala for Out in Schools, Out On Screen Society

GRANTS & AWARDS
2021 Arts and Innovation Award, Surrey Board of Trade
2019 Artistic Visionary Award, Darpan Magazine
2017  Creative Spark Vancouver Grant, ArtStarts
2007 Langara College Advancement Fine Arts Scholarship Fund: Design Studio Award

SELECT TALKS
2025 Keynote, Capilano College (TBA)
2024 Keynote, West Point Grey Academy, Vancouver, BC
2023 Keynote, BC Art Teachers Conference, Surrey BC
2023 Panelist, The Intersection of Art and Design, IDS Vancouver, Vancouver BC
2023 Keynote, Big Pictures: Murals, Billboards, and Urban Interventions, Wilson School of Design at KPU, Richmond BC
2022 Panelist, Living a Creative Life, Opus Art Supplies (online)
2022 Speaker, Creative Mornings Vancouver, Vancouver BC
2021 Panelist, Monsoon Talks: Murals in the Market, Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts, Vancouver BC
2021 Speaker, Artist Salon, Richmond Art Gallery (online)
2020 Moderator, CBC Exhibitionists: Street Art, Season 6, Episode 5 (online)
2020 Panelist, Distant Not Disengaged: Covid-19 and The Future Of Democracy, SFU Centre For Dialogue (online)
2020 Panelist, Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts, Vancouver BC
2020 Panelist, Tiffin Talks: Zanani / Zamana / Zameen, Indian Summer Festival x Surrey Art Gallery (online)
2020 Speaker, Art Connects | A Series of Online Gatherings, Vancouver Art Gallery
2019 Panelist, Facade Festival, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2019 Alumni Artist Talk Series, Langara College, Vancouver BC
2018  Arts and Culture Roundtable, Forward, Backwards, Sideways: Critical Turns in South Asian Canadian Art
and Culture, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford BC
2018  Panelist, Adjacentlands: Conversation on Contemporary Art, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
2017 Speaker, Pecha Kucha New West, Volume 17, New Westminster BC
2017 Art for Social Justice, Global Stewardship Conference, St. George's High School, Vancouver BC

PUBLICATIONS
2023 An Artist and A Mother, Demeter Press, 2023, ISBN: 978-1-77258-428-8
2022 HOPE: 7 Artists of the South Asian Diaspora, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-927638-31-6

2021 Chromatic: ten meditations on crisis in art & letters, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia,
2021, ISBN: 978-1-7752766-5-4
2020 CBC Arts: Point of View - with galleries closing street art has helped us connect in 2020 and may its future shine bright
2019 In/Visible: Body as Reflective Site, Visual Arts Centre | McClure Gallery, Montreal, 2019, ISBN: 978-1-926492-20-9
2019 Stories For South Asian Supergirls, Kashi House, Great Britain, 2019, ISBN: 978-1-911271-22-2

RESIDENCIES
2021 St. John’s IB School, Vancouver BC
2020 Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver BC
2018  Indian Summer Festival, Vancouver BC
2017 Artist in Residence Program, Anvil Centre, New Westminster BC

REPRESENTATION
2022 Gallery Jones, Vancouver (current)
2018 Art Rental + Sales Program operated by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (current)