Priyanka D’Souza

Priyanka D’Souza

Priyanka D’Souza (she/her) (b. 1995, Mumbai) is an artist, writer, and art-historian whose primary areas of research and inspiration are Mughal court painting (miniatures), natural history in early modern Europe, and marine ecology. Her practice often uses satire and fiction as a tool to subvert and redress lacunae and exaggerations in mainstream history. She is interested in paradigms of truth and wonder and so her academic writing is centered around monsters and the aja’ib (strange/ unbelievable), particularly in imaginings of borderlands of nation-empires, and as applied to anomalous/disabled bodies. 

Priyanka has graduated in Painting from M. S. University, Baroda, and is currently pursuing her post-graduation in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi. She has been a fellow at the Dara Shikoh Fellowship (2016) and an artist resident at the Delfina Foundation, London (2021). She has participated in many exhibitions across India including ‘Babur ki Gai’ LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2018) and ‘Dissensus’ LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2017); ‘Mutarerium’, Mumbai Art Room; ‘In the Light Of’, Gallery Ark, among others. She lives and works between Mumbai and Delhi, India.