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Department of Visual Arts

The Department of Visual Arts at Ashoka University combines courses in Art History and Visual Culture with training in material, media and site specific aspects of Studio Arts. While the Art History and Visual Culture courses offer historical and philosophical contexts in which visual arts has been developed and practiced, the Studio Arts courses help the students learn the fundamentals of an art form and develop it through practice. Both the components work in tandem and help the student acquire an integrated understanding of art.

Programmes

Faculty at Visual Arts

The Department of Visual Arts’s faculty includes visual art practitioners, working through varied media and methods, as well as art historians and visual studies scholars with research interests and expertise spanning the early medieval to the contemporary period.

Facilities

Art Studio

Art Studio

The Department of Visual Arts offers Minor courses in Art histories and Art practice at an undergraduate level. The art studios at the department provide facilities for some of the foundational courses in Visual Arts. Students have the possibilities to experiment in Drawing and explore the various experimental possibilities in the studio. The studio also houses facilities to experiment in oil and easel painting. There are provisions for clay modelling, clay and plaster sculpture making, terracotta pottery and firing. The studio houses electric wheels and electricity kiln for students to learn terracotta sculpture and pottery making. There are provisions to experiment in print techniques with a lino and etching press provided in the studio. Plans are underway to expand the studio facilities in the near future.

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Dear All,

The Department of Visual Arts is delighted to announce the Visual Arts Colloquium Series, Monsoon 2026, featuring a diverse lineup of multidisciplinary contemporary artists, art historians, and practitioners.

This semester’s conversations will explore a wide range of ideas and practices—including identity and language, abstraction and materiality, visual storytelling, urban space and displacement, art and politics, and the relationship between art and everyday life. 

Colloquium Schedule | Monsoon 2026

All talks will be held at the Visual Arts Studio (ground floor sports block near basket ball court), from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM.

11 September | Mithu Sen

18 September |  Manisha Parekh

23 October | Shikhant S.

30 October | Gigi Scaria

6 November | Anupam Roy

20 November | Deepti Mulgund
 

We warmly invite faculty, students and members of the university community to join us for these conversations and engage with the speakers.

To receive further updates, talk-specific announcements and event details, please sign up for the Visual Arts Colloquium mailing list: [Sign up here]

We look forward to welcoming you to the Visual Arts Colloquium Series, Monsoon 2026. 

 

warm regards,

Visual Arts Department

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Dear All,

The Visual Arts Department in collaboration with the Lithuanian embassy, India is delighted to invite interested students for a children’s book illustration masterclass (specializing in collage based illustrations and picture books) by Aušra KiudulaitÄ—, one of Lithuania's most internationally recognised illustrators, an artist, author and visual storyteller whose picture books have crossed into nearly 30 languages and onto award shortlists across three continents.

Date: 24th October, 2026

Time: 11 am – 4pm

Venue: Visual arts Studio (near Sports Block)

Register for the Workshop here.

Registration for the workshop is mandatory, there are limited seats, please register on time.

 

About the Artist:

Aušra KiudulaitÄ— is one of Lithuania's most internationally recognised illustrators, an artist, author and visual storyteller whose picture books have crossed into nearly 30 languages and onto award shortlists across three continents. Her work has earned honours from the American Library Association, IBBY and the Bologna Children's Book Fair, placing her among a small circle of Baltic illustrators with sustained global reach.

Trained at the Painting Department of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, she has spent the past decade creating picture books for children, leading creative workshops, and delivering masterclasses for art professionals across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

She works actively as a visual literacy advocate and early reading promoter, developing an original lecture series on how meaning shifts when text and image are separated, altered or combined. Delivered to teachers, librarians, early childhood education specialists and art students, her seminars take a practice-based approach to storytelling, composition and the relationship between words and pictures. Her goal is to promote both literature and visual literacy, working closely with words and images together to strengthen how children and adults read, see and understand stories. She is an active participant in international exhibitions, both as part of group shows and through her own solo exhibitions, alongside her ongoing work in publishing and education.

IG:http://https://www.instagram.com/menulisyranulis?stkn=Yzhtdjl1ZnljcXBo&utm_source=qr 

We look forward to your participation in the masterclass.

 

Warm regards,

Visual Arts Department

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Dear All,

The Department of Visual Arts is delighted to announce the Visual Arts Colloquium Series, Monsoon 2026, featuring a diverse lineup of multidisciplinary contemporary artists, art historians, and practitioners.

This semester’s conversations will explore a wide range of ideas and practices—including identity and language, abstraction and materiality, visual storytelling, urban space and displacement, art and politics, and the relationship between art and everyday life. 

Colloquium Schedule | Monsoon 2026

All talks will be held at the Visual Arts Studio (ground floor sports block near basket ball court), from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM.

11 September | Mithu Sen

18 September |  Manisha Parekh

23 October | Shikhant S.

30 October | Gigi Scaria

6 November | Anupam Roy

20 November | Deepti Mulgund
 

We warmly invite faculty, students and members of the university community to join us for these conversations and engage with the speakers.

To receive further updates, talk-specific announcements and event details, please sign up for the Visual Arts Colloquium mailing list: [Sign up here]

We look forward to welcoming you to the Visual Arts Colloquium Series, Monsoon 2026. 

 

warm regards,

Visual Arts Department

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For any queries regarding Visual Arts programmes, please contact: -

Rakhi Peswani

Head of Department

rakhi.peswani@ashoka.edu.in

Uttkarsha

Department Manager

uttkarsha@ashoka.edu.in

Sindhushree Chowdhury

Visual Arts Student Representative, AY 26-27

studentrepresentative.visualarts@ashoka.edu.in

Anuj Kumar Yadav

Visual Arts Studio Manager

anuj.yadav@ashoka.edu.in

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