Sangha… In Collective Existence opens on March 28th, 2025

Curated by Rashi Jain and Devishi Seth, Sangha is a featured exhibition for NCECA 2025, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Featured Artists:

Nirmohee Belvakar, Megha Gupta, Sharbani Das Gupa, Rashi Jain, Revati Jayakrishnan, Shikha Joshi, Ina Kaur, Neha Kudchadkar, Heidi McKenzie, Yesha Panchal, Neha Pullarwar, Devishi Seth, Kopal Seth, Shushank Shrestha, Antra Sinha, Madhvi Subrahmanian, Garima Tripathi, Kushala Vora, Adil Writer + T. Palinisamy

The Clay Way Open Studio, March 9th, 2025

The first cohort of The Clay Way share their work and their process.

Participating artists:

Aditi Kashyap, Kavita Nair, Rupini Eshwaraiah and Sakshi Mathuria.

This edition of the open studio is hosted by Parijaat, Goa.

Petals opens at the Auroville Visitors Centre on February 22nd, 2025 and continues at the newly opened MAJI Art Gallery, Maroma, Auroville from February 24th.

The show features work made during the Maroma Ceramics Residency by Margherita Grasselli, Neha Kudchadkar, Nikita Rudrappa, Stella Marina Gallas, Supriya Menon Meneghetti, and Viviana Di Leo and is curated by Supriya Menon Meneghetti.

I perform for the opening at 5pm.

The inaugural Maroma Ceramics Residency curated by Supriya Menon Meneghetti happens from  February 10 to February 20  2025, culminating in an exhibition at the Auroville Visitors Center.

Three Indian and three Italian ceramic artists gather in Maroma in Auroville to make together and reflect on the twelve divine attributes as articulated by the Mother.

Each artist has chosen two attributes and their corresponding colour through a process of chance. They bring their own voice and experience when responding to the qualities and colours, making work in their own unique style.

Together, the artists engage with the philosophy of Auroville and reflect on timeless values in an increasingly fractured and faltering world, making work that confronts the complexity and dualities of human existence

Featured artists are Margherita Grasselli, Neha Kudchadkar, Nikita Rudrappa, Stella Marina Gallas, Supriya Menon Meneghetti, and Viviana Di Leo.

Embody curated by Wendy Amanda Coutinho, opens at the Jamaat Art Gallery for Mumbai Gallery Weekend on January 9th, 2025.

Featured artists are Darshan Mahajan, Hrushikesh Biswal, Rohit Mestry, Charandas Jadhav and Neha Kudchadkar

CLAY Conversations, newspaper published on September 20th, 2025 by the Ceramics Research Group, University of Westminster.

The newspaper has an introductory essay by craft scholar Martina Margetts and edited excerpts from the Clay Seminars convened by the Ceramics Research Center.

This year as part of the Clay Seminars, I was in a closed conversation with Phoebe Cummings, moderated by Madhvi Subhrahmanian. In 2022, I was a speaker and panelist and I spoke about making ceramics in India. Featured are excerpts from both conversations. The newspaper focuses on clay and its role as a global super connector.

I have a few copies with me, let me know if you’d like one.

Just received this stunning catalog in the post.

Multiple Realities: Voices in Contemporary Indian Ceramics was curated by Kristine Micheal for the Clayarch Gimhae Museum, South Korea.

Featured artists were Aarti Vir, Adil Writer, Dipalee Daroz, Ela Mukherjee, Keshari Nandan Prasad, L N Tallur, Madhur Sen, Manjunath Kamath, Mudita Bhandari, Neha Kudchadkar, P R Daroz, Ray Meeker, Reyaz Badaruddin, Shampa Shah, Shirley Bhatnagar + Pallavi Arora, Supriya Menon Meneghetti, and Trupti Patel

The 2nd Iteration of the Indian Ceramics Triennale, Common Ground, opens on the January 19th 2024.

Curatorial team :

Anjani Khanna, Kanika Anand, Madhvi Subrahmanian, Neha Kudchadkar, Sharbani Das Gupta, Sangeeta Kapila, Reyaz Badaruddin, Vineet Kacker.

Sustainable Ceramics #1: Recycled, Repaired, Reactivated curated by Wendy Gers at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, from November 25th, 2023 to November 3rd, 2024.

With work by Kerstin Abraham, Alix Arto, Olivia Barisano, Thelma Boateng, Jie Chen, Nicole Chrysikou, Sara Howard, Katrine Køster Holst, Neha Kudchadkar, Cleo Mussi, Benedetta Pompili, Caroline Slotte and Bart Vernooij

I am in residency at Slingerhaan Atelier the wonderful studio and home of Paulien Ploeger and Her Comis in Sint Jacobiparochie, in preparation for Sustainable Ceramics, curated by Wendy Gers at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics.

Slingerhaan Ateliers sits on the historic Oudebildtdijk, in Friesland. Working in their beautiful studio, sharing meals with Paulien and Her, taking long walks by the Wadden Sea, looking at prehistoric and historic objects in the depot of the Princessehof National Ceramics Museum, the residency was a beautiful immersion.

Many Cups in a Large Sink curated by Priyansha Jain and Inordinary opens at Subko Mary Lodge, Bandra from October 17th  to October 21st 2023.

The exhibition shows interpretations of the cup, challenging conventional boundaries of form, function and material.

Featuring work by Aarti Manik, Archana Ramaswamy, Arjun Rathi, Élodie Alexandre, Ismail Plumber, Kopal Seth, Neha Kudchadkar, Paul Michelon, & Mayuri Roychoudhury, Reyaz Badaruddin, Saraswati, SHED, Shivam Agarwal, Sukhdev Rathod, Suvajit Mondal, Tarini Sethi, Thukral & Tagra, Vinita Mungi, and Yaazd Contractor

Multiple Realities: Voices in Contemporary Indian Ceramics, curated by Kristine Micheal opens at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum on October 7th 2025!

Exhibiting artists are Aarti Vir, Adil Writer, Dipalee Daroz, Ela Mukherjee, Keshari Nandan Prasad, L.N. Tallur, Madhur Sen, Manjunath Kamath, Mudita Bhandari, Neha Kudchadkar, P.R. Daroz, Ray Meeker, Reyaz Badaruddin, Shampa Shah, Shirley Bhatnagar + Pallavi Arora, Supriya Menon Meneghetti, and Trupti Patel

Craft scholar Martina Margetts wrote about home/land in her essay The Post Craft Turn in Post-craft, E.P Vol. 3 edited by Alex Coles and Catharine Rossi. Post-craft was published in June 2022 by Sternberg Press. I have just recieved my copy.

Artists from the first Indian Ceramics Triennale, Breaking Ground, respond to the curatorial prompt “squaring the circle” at Arthshila, Santiniketan in a prelude to Common Ground, which opens at Arthshila, New Delhi in January 2024

I have developed a performance especially for the opening of Handle with Care at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics on November 26, 2022 at 12.30 pm and 2.30 pm.

Handle with Care is curated by Dr Wendy Gers.

Handle with Care opens at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics on November 26, 2022 and runs until September 29, 2023. This groundbreaking show curated by Dr Wendy Gers  includes work by unidentified artists from China, Peru, Suriname, Nigeria, Dagestan, Turkey and the Netherlands, and  work by Anton Reijnders, Rob Birza, Johan Creten, Marie-Josée Comello, Daniël De Bruin, Bing & Grøndahl, Satoru Hoshino, Bastienne Kramer, Neha Kudchadkar, Hanna Mobach, Charlotte Eta Mumm, Pablo Ponce, Rosenthal & co, Akio Takamori, Studio Tjep, Simone van Bakel, Hans van der Ham, Hans van Houwelingen, Couzijn van Leeuwen, Sharon van Overmeiren, Irene Vonck, Pauline Wiertz and Betty Woodman. The lion’s share of the exhibited works are from the Princessehof’s collection, but there are also pieces from the collections of the Fries Museum, the Fries Verzetsmuseum and a loan from Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.

Journeys of Clay and Fire curated by Kristine Micheal opens at the British Council in New Delhi, on September 29 and runs until November 29 2022.

Charles Wallace India Trust grantees Abhay Pandit, Ela Mukherjee, K Gukan Raj, Neha Kudchadkar, Shirley Bhatnagar, Shitanshu Maurya and Shruti Bansal feature with  projects from the British Council’s Crafting Futures programme including a collaboration between CEPT University and the British Ceramics Biennial and a collaboration between IICD, Jaipur and West Dean College of Arts and Conservation.

I am invited to be a speaker and panelist for the Clay Seminars June 23, 2022 conveyed by the Ceramics Research Centre, University of Westminster, UK and New York University

Context and Belonging: Global perspectives on the current pathways and barriers to surviving and thriving as a maker of ceramics.

The medium of clay has a particularly long global history of wide creative and cultural significance. But as low-cost, industrially produced objects have replaced many kinds of formerly hand-made ceramic objects in most people’s lives, what kinds of ceramics are now being made in different parts of the world? Who makes them and what impacts the conditions of their creation? What can we learn from sharing the experiences and examples of our individual localities?

Nia Gautama, Sam Nortey and Neha Kudchadkar invited will reflect on the issues affecting the current moment and future of ceramic art and craft in their global region. The seminar not only aims to explore some of the approaches and ambitions of a range of clay practices, but hopes to identify synergies for future cross-border exchanges.

The series of 4 Clay Seminars is:

Seminar 1: Why clay? Why now?

Date: Thursday 9th June
Time: 11 am NYC / 4 pm London

Panelists:

Dr Jareh Das – Independent curator

Susan Cross – Curator, MASS MoCA

Dr Sequoia Miller – Chief Curator & Deputy Director, Gardiner Museum

Facilitator: Clare Twomey

Seminar 2: Fragments and Dissonance

Date: Friday 10^th June

Time: 11 am NYC / 4 pm London

Kahill Irving – Artist

Ramekon O’Arwisters – Artist

Rose B Simpson – Artist

Facilitator: Linda Sormin

Seminar 3: Context and Belonging

Date: Thursday 23^rd June

Time 10 am NYC / 3 pm London

Panelists:

Nia Gautama – Artist

Neha Kudchadkar – Artist

Dr Samuel Nortey – Artist and academic

Facilitator: Tessa Peters

Seminar 4: What is the artwork?

Date: Friday 24th June
Time: 11 am NYC / 4 pm London

Panelists:

Cassils – Artist

Cath Roche – PhD researcher

Matt Smith – Artist

Facilitators:  Christie Brown & Phoebe Cummings

I have been awarded the Space 118 Fine Art Grant for 2021-2022, to develop a new body of work.

The virtual reception for Vectors: the Artaxis Fellowship in its First Five Years, is on March 19th, from 8-9 pm EST.

The online exhibition features all eight Artaxis Fellows to date: Natalia Arbelaez, Soe Yu Nwe, Raven Halfmoon, Kathy Garcia, Donté K. Hayes, Moises Salazar, Nicole Mclaughlin, and Nyasha Madamombe. These artists are joined by one of the three jurors that comprised the Fellowship Selection Committee for each year: Amy Santoferraro, Linda Lopez, Neha Kudchadkar, Morel Doucet, and Shlomit Bauman.

I was interviewed by curators Marie DuPasquier and Lea Schleiffenbaum about Handjob which features in the exhibition Love Letters: Stories of Distant Proximities showing at Horse and Pony, Berlin.

Love Letters: Stories of Distant Proximities curated by Marie DuPasquier & Lea Schleiffenbaum opens at Horse & Pony, Berlin on October 10th 2020. This is an exhibition in parts and my work joins the show on October 24th.

This exhibition marks my fourth collaboration with Display, Berlin and Marie DuPasquier.

Featuring work by Ewa Dziarnowska, Julie Favreau, Kasia Fudakowski, Neha Kudchadkar, Marie von Heyl, Jordan Müller, Rafał Pierzyński, Tobias Preisig, Fette Sans, & Talaya Schmid

Shruthi Veena Vishwanath’s project Our Midnight Song is 25 nights of womxn taking up space and celebrating each other, our thoughts and work at midnight on Facebook live.

Shruthi and I collaborate with Soyrabai for the finale on Feb 25, 2021. The Body is Pollution, they say…

I have been interviewed by DesignIndia Magazine for their 115th issue. DesignIndia is a contemporary design publication featuring Indian designers, artists, architects, craftsmen, and creative entrepreneurs.

I have been invited to participate in the Earth Matters artist residency organised by INKO at Kalakshetra in Chennai from January 20 th 2020.

The residency hosts four Korean and four Indian artists. The participating artists are Abir Patwardhan, Debasish Das, Neha Kudchadkar, Ramkumar Kannadasan (India), Hong Geunyoung, Kim Mijin, Suh Sangee and Park Ja-il (Korea).

I have been awarded the Multicultural Fellowship to attend the NCECA conference in Richmond, Virginia in March 2020.

Yay!

(So, the world stopped and in the end I was able to attend the 2021 conference virtually. The featured image with this post is a screenshot from Ree Kaneko’s most excellent talk about Jun Kaneko’s inspiring practice.)

Yasmin Bassir and I talk about our respective practices and our relationship to the clay body in the context of All That is in This Thing, curated by Marie DuPasquier at Display, Berlin.

Join us for coffee and croissants!

In the framework of my exhibition All That is in This Thing, at Display, Berlin, curator Marie DuPasquier and I invited in other artists’ voices into the gallery to rethink for ourselves what a ‘solo’ show can be.

Joanna Ackva, dancer, anthropologist, writer and much more, and I devised a performance sharing of fragments of text tracing our bodies through the world and through the exhibition space.

All That is in This Thing, curated by Marie DuPasquier opens at Display, Berlin on October 18, 2019. This work was researched while in residence with Marie at CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel.

This exhibition has been supported by the Lalit Kala Academy travel grant.

I have been invited to participate in a residency curated by Field Station SLAM at the IFO Center in Sweden alongside artists who work with ceramics in alternate and exciting ways.

Participating artists are Annelie Grimwade Olofsson (SWE/DNK), Annika Enqvist (SWE), Berenice Hernandez (NOR/MEX), Christin Johansson (SWE/DNK), Elin Sundström (SWE), Helen Felcey (GBR), Henny Linn Kjellberg (SWE), Ieva Bertašiūtė Grosbaha (LIT), Ingrid Ogenstedt (SWE/DEU), Ivana Kralikova (SWE/CZE), Karin Auran Frankenstein (SWE), Louise Waite (SWE), Mariko Wada (DNK), Martin Woll Godal (NOR), Moa Lönn (SWE), Nayoung Jeong (KOR/USA/GBR), Neha Kudchadkar (IND), Priska Falin (FIN), Susanna Jablonski (SWE).

Cette Question qui vous Brûle les Lèvres a group exhibition curated by Marie DuPasqiuer Jacques-Henri Sennwald and the CAN team opens on April 12, 2019 at the Centre d’art Neuchâtel. I am also artist-in-residence at CAN for the duration of the show. Over the course of the exhibition Marie and I research our next collaboration, a solo exhibition of my work in her project space Display, Berlin.

Participating artists are Brigham Baker, Franziska Baumgartner, Samantha Bohatsch, Marc Buchy, Alison Darby, Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Marta Djourina, Neha Kudchadkar, and Sidsel Ladegaard

On May 11 th, there will be a sharing of my work and readings by Samantha Bohatsch and Stéphanie Rosianu.

I made the album cover artwork for Shruthi Veena Vishwanath‘s compositions of the voices warkari women saints, Vithu Majha.

I made it to a 40 under 40 list! who would have thunk!

The Vogue Art Report, 2018

Panjim 175 is curated by Swati Salgaonkar and Vivek Menezes for the Serendipity Art Festival.

I spent a fortnight in Kudchade making work about my relationship to the place that is part of my name.

The exhibition runs from December 15 – 22 2018 at the Old PWD complex in Panjim.

Come walkthrough the exhibition with me for Art Night Thursday.

Civilization and its Material Contents is on at Project 88, Mumbai, and features work by Mahesh Baliga, Khageshwar Raut and Neha Kudchadkar

Civilization and its Material Contents opens at Project 88, Mumbai on September 11, 2018.

Featured artists Mahesh Baliga, Khageshwar Raut and Neha Kudchadkar

The first Indian Ceramics Triennale, Breaking Ground, opens at the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur on August 31, 2018!

Curated by Anjani Khanna, Madhvi Subrahmanian, Neha Kudchadkar, Reyaz Badaruddin, Sharbani Das Gupta and Vineet Kacker.