Aaditi Joshi India, b. 1980

Aaditi Joshi creates colorful, minimalist forms using plastic waste as one of her primary material elements. The ecological damage created by plastic bags in India has had a profound impact on how Joshi perceives what she calls the "dysfunctional urban landscape." Nodding to a long, global history of artists deploying common bags as an everyday artistic medium, Joshi experiments with methods of transforming the bags she collects from the landscape into delicate, ephemeral-seeming image objects. While also in a small way participating in the removal of waste from the ecosystem and the re-use of a toxic pollutant, Joshi is interested in creating abstract art that inspires vierwers to reconsider their relationship to their environment, and challenges existing definitions of beauty and ugliness.

Aaditi Joshi (b. 1980, India) earned a degree in drawing and painting from L.S. Raheja School of Art, Mumbai. Recent exhibitions of her work include Present-future, curated by Dr. Sarayu Doshi at the NGMA in Mumbai; the India Art Summit (India Art Fair) and in (M)other India, Galerie du Jour–Agnès B., Paris, France; and SH Contemporary, Shanghai, China. She was awarded a Fellowship for the Lucas Artists Residency Program at the Montalvo Art Center, CA, USA, and was shortlisted for the ŠKODA Prize.