AE Role: Partner and Co-Programmer
Artist and Lecturer at OP Jindal Global University
Photo from Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities
Payal creates site specific and immersive installations that people inhabit blurring the parameters of the room. She explores the concept of nonlinear time and notions of distance, position, and bodily tolerance, to rethink what it means to have agency.
Payal Arya graduated with a BA degree in Psychology and Sociology from Bombay University, 2014, BFA from Rachana Sansad, Bombay, 2013, MFA degree from Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, 2016. She currently is a Lecturer at Jindal Global University and teaches in the BFA department.
Her exhibitions include ‘When No one is Looking’, Kala Ghoda festival, Bombay, 2013 and her master’s degree show‘ At dusk the sky had turned Violet’, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, 2016. Select group shows include ‘Minute per Image’, TIFA, Pune, 2017 collateral to the Pune Biennale, ‘Regimes of Truth’ at Gati Dance Forum, Delhi, 2018 and at Kalakar Theatre, Delhi, 2018, ‘The Future is Here’ Bajaj Bhavan, Mumbai, 2019, In search of new names” at Experimenter Viewing room, Kolkata, ‘Immerse’ group show by Carpe Arte in Mumbai, 2022. “Internalising a city” at VHC Gallery, Pune, Iran “Change is resistance”, La Portineria, Florence.
She was part of the ‘Amplified Voice’ workshop at Kochi in 2018 an American Arts Incubator program in collaboration with the Kochi Biennale. Artist residency at LAMO (Ladakh Arts and Media Organization) in July,2018 and ‘Shifting Studios’, residency at TIFA working studios, Pune, 2019 and artist residency, ‘Vacant Zone’ in 2021.
She was invited to Film Akademie Baden Wurttemberg – Germany in 2019 and her film PIPIO was screened at the India Art Fair 2023 and was presented by the Gujral Foundation. Her collaborative film, “Memory is always in the periphery” premiered at New Media Art Space, New York and at Cyber Park, Wrong Biennale in Spain, TRANSBORDA 3 – Portugal and at VAICA 2 a festival for Video Art by Indian Contemporary Artists. Her film “मुडपानदी ईच्छा An Intangible Claim” was showcased at the 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and on IkonoTV screening platform and at Divvy Film Festival at Lahore in 2023.