Anshuka Mahapatra

Anshuka Mahapatra is a visual arts practitioner from Odisha with a
multidisciplinary background in the arts. She earned a BFA in Art Education
from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2020), followed by an MFA in
Printmaking from the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication,
University of Hyderabad (2022). Based in Hyderabad, she has worked as a
visiting faculty member at the University of Hyderabad and contributed to
curatorial research and arts education initiatives, including curriculum
development projects with the NalandaWay Foundation. In 2024, she
co-founded NTNG IN THE BIN, a self-publishing initiative dedicated to comics,
zines, and photobooks.
Her practice critically examines the circulation of ideologies and their
influence on notions of selfhood, belonging, and personal value. Through
repetitive and layered text, imagery, and visual language borrowed from
advertising, she explores the psychological and social mechanisms that shape
identity. Performative gestures often emerge within her work as acts of
confrontation, parody, or self-reflection, embracing the absurd, unstable, and
contradictory.
Working across painting, printmaking, installation, and video, Mahapatra's
practice navigates the intersections of language, image, and lived experience.