Linear abstraction and intuitive mark-making define Srushti Rao’s contemporary painting practice. Working primarily through line, she creates compositions that translate thought, emotion, and experience into structured visual forms. Rao approaches painting as both a reflective and evolving process. Her works emerge from an instinct to simplify complexity, organising ideas through repetition, rhythm, and sequential movement. The line becomes a central element in her practice, acting as a visual extension of thought and a framework through which portraits, figures, and abstraction are explored. Her work reflects the duality of a contemporary identity shaped by tradition and modernity. Drawing from personal experience, cultural context, and introspection, her practice navigates themes of selfhood, perception, and emotional continuity. Through disciplined structures and intuitive expression, her paintings create a space where inner dialogue and lived experience converge.

Solo Exhibitions

• Nehru Centre Art Gallery – Visual Chronologies & Discursive Binaries (2023)
• Jehangir Art Gallery – Relational Relevance (2022)
• Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai – Windmills of Hope (2011)
• Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai – Faces, Mind & Body (2008)

Selected Exhibitions

• World Art Dubai, Dubai World Trade Centre (2020–2022)
• AAF Milan, Superstudio Più (2019–2020)
• AAF Amsterdam, Kromhouthal (2019)
• Galerie Waarkunst, Netherlands (2020)
• Cymroza Art Gallery (2017)
• India Art Festival, Mumbai & New Delhi (2018–2020)

Awards & Residencies

• Bharat Nirman (Build India) Award, Emerging Artist Category (2015)