Deena Pindoria

Deena Pindoria (b.1991, Kutch, Gujarat, India) completed her Bachelor’s in Painting from Ahmedabad, 2020 and is currently in the Final Year of her MFA Graphic Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU of Baroda, 2022. Pindoria has taken part in many Group shows in India including at Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad 2020. She was awarded a scholarship grant by Kala Sakshi Art Scholarship 2022 and her works were also selected by ABIR First take which was held at Bikaner House, Delhi 2022

Deena has dedicated years to her study, documentation, and experiments with Ajrakh block printing, natural dyes, and earth pigments on materials like modal silk, cotton fabric, handcrafted papers, and rice papers. She is passionate about focusing on and incorporating traditional  customs, trends, and particularly historical occurrences of shocking combat scenes and martyr – associated pictures. She employs natural dyes and Ajrakh block printing as well as indigenous etching techniques in her artwork.

Deena’s anti-war series has its origins in her heritage as a member of the warrior hamlet of Madhapar in Kutch, Gujarat, India, and as a descendant of those who fought in the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971. She discovered several archival images of military heroes and studied the aforementioned conflict and its participants. Deena took particular interest in the women who actively became soldiers, and used this information to create a range of intriguing artworks utilising various print techniques.

Deena lives and works in Baroda, Gujarat, India