Sewali Deka

Sewali Deka is an artist from rural Assam. She holds a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Guwahati, Kokrajhar College of Music and Fine Arts, Assam, and a Masters in Fine arts  in Painting from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. She is the recipient of the Serendipity Artist Residency (2023) and the Lalit Kala Research Scholarship (2021-22).

Her work reflects rural life and nostalgia, and her art practice involves working with local communities, especially farmers. She is passionate about indigenous food culture and other interesting elements of village life, and expresses aspects of her life both as a woman artist  and farmer in urban and rural areas through these mediums.