Arieno Kera (b. 2000, Nagaland, India)) is a contemporary artist from Nagaland whose multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, video, and sound. Her work reinterprets Naga folklore and indigenous knowledge systems through a personal, process-based lens, exploring themes of connection, care, and cultural memory.
Kera's delicate, narrative-rich forms bridge traditional practices with contemporary image-making, often using contrasting materials like stone and paper to create visual dialogues between weight and fragility, permanence and ephemerality. Her approach is both intimate and expansive, grounding ancestral knowledge in contemporary artistic vocabularies.
A graduate of Visva Bharati University, Kera was an artist-in-residence at Hampi Art Labs and a fellow of IMMERSE 4.0. In 2024, she received a grant from The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) to further her explorations of Naga cultural heritage and its resonances in the present.