Next Step Residency | 10th Edition | Open Studio | 10 July 2026, 6 pm

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Jul 7, 2026, 4:54:21 AM (10 days ago) Jul 7

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It has been our pleasure to host five incredibly talented artists as part of the 10th Edition of the Next-Step Residency programme.

We invite you to their Open Studio on 10 July 2026, 6 pm, at 1Shanthiroad. The exhibition will be on view till 12 July.

Our heartfelt gratitude to KK Hebbar Foundation, Shenoy Art Foundation, Sanjay Kabe, Kamini Sawhney, GS Shenoy, LN Tallur, Susanna Eappen, Nalini Malani, Atul Dodiya, Ravindra Reddy, Premilla Baid and Gulam Sheikh for their generous contributions towards making this Residency Programme possible.

Yambou Kongkang is a visual artist working with oil, ink, coffee stain, acrylic, and embroidery to explore the female body through themes of pain, healing, memory, and resilience. My practice reflects on emotional endurance, bodily transformation, and the silent experiences women carry within socially conditioned spaces. Through layered materials and stitching, I create intimate works that reflect vulnerability, transformation, and the strength found within survival.

Sarvagya J. Nair is a multidisciplinary artist based in Raipur, working across drawing, installation, found materials, film, photography, and performance. A graduate of Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya and Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, his practice investigates the body through labour, memory, and lived experience. His works often emerge from contemporary sociopolitical issues and his reactions to it, forming open-ended and process-based outcomes.

Sakshee Patel is an artist currently based in Karamsad, Gujarat. She completed her MFA from Shiv Nadar University (2023-25) and her BFA in painting from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2019-23). Working across drawing, painting, printmaking and installations, her works engage with the constant battle between seeking connection and meaning, and becoming or feeling estranged and the loss of meaning.

Bikram Dey is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, video, and animation. Through layered visual narratives, he explores memory, political consciousness, and the subtle tensions of everyday life. He earned his MFA from Kalyani University and his BFA from Bengal Fine Arts College, and has presented his work at the Indian Art Fair, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, the Kochi Student Biennale, and other national exhibitions.

Ra Sa Prasanth is a Bangalore-based art practitioner and a BVA graduate from the College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, and parai, exploring caste, oppression, and systemic injustice. Rooted in lived experiences of caste-based discrimination, his work reflects on the inhumanity and inequalities sustained by dominant power structures and the varna system. Through documentation, conversations, and personal reflection on atrocities including the Vengaivayal incident, he positions himself as both observer and storyteller, creating dialogue around the ongoing realities faced by marginalized and Dalit communities.