In the work of Delhi-based artist Tarini Sethi, the body becomes a site of boundless transformation. Drawing from India’s expansive art-historical canon—from miniature painting to tribal traditions—Sethi constructs a universe of her own making populated by hybrid bodies freed from categorical constraints. Sethi's figures reflect utopian worlds where bodily structures are malleable and fluid, transcending boundaries between erotic and abject, human and non human, possible and impossible. Inspired by sacred iconography, particularly multi-limbed deities and their animal counterparts, she envisions evolutionary futures shaped by forms unbound by fixed notions of identity, biology, or form itself.
Tarini Sethi (b 1987, India lives and works in New Delhi, India. She received her BFA in drawing from Pratt Institute in 2014.
Solo exhibitions include Speaking with the same tongue, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2026); A Memory of the Future, Galerie GEEK/ART, Tokyo, Japan (2024); Do They See The Same Skies As We Do, Chemould CoLab, Mumbai, India (2023); and Of Flesh and Fog, India International Centre, New Delhi, India (2017).
Group exhibitions include Like Share Subscribe, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA (2024); Voices Of Women, Art Garde Global, New Delhi, India (2024); Now Streaming, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA (2024); India Art, Architecture, and Design Biennale, New Delhi, India (2023); In The Absence Of Darkness, 47A, Mumbai, India (2023); A Moveable Feast, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India (2022); and All Is Not Lost 20:20:20, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India (2020).