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human biology 2017 @kinjalvasavada
Western media creates unrealistic expectations of perfection in avocados. In this painting, I seek to challenge and redefine avocado beauty standards.
2016
Oil on canvas
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
2022
Oil paint on panel
Often, I find myself missing the changing of seasons. But if I just look closely, signs of autumn are all around.
2019
Nature Photography
My family, despite being cramped in a bungalow room that was our home, share warmth and happiness beyond understanding.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
2024
Oil on Canvas
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
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Photography
Shriram California photos
Digital photographs
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
monotype on paper
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
2017
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
This is a collective of poems written while contemplating the relationship between the natural, humans, death, continuity, carnage, and hope. Link to Artwork
2023
Poetry
Inspired by individuality and body empowerment. Work focuses on abstraction of human form and color.
Acrylic on canvas
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
Acrylic on Canvas
An ongoing series attempting to create an emotive instant through color theory principles
This piece was made the week before quarantine when everything was uncertain and the weight of not knowing what was to come next hung over our heads.
2020
Boulder & Rope
The girl who depicts prosperity is looking beyond her world into one that’s suppressed by indigence, because to solve a problem you must face it.
acrylic on canvas
SJC redesign – inspired by bold ‘Mod’ textiles, rooted in the London-based 1960’s ‘Mod’ fashion and music subculture centered around modern jazz.
Graphic Design and Print
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
2018
Photoshop
Princess Going Digital considers queer girlhood on the playground of the laptop screen, a site for unapologetic self-documentation and portraiture.
Gouache on Paper