Nivedita Shinde (b. 1987, Mumbai) works across graphite drawings, oil paintings, and mixed-media pieces incorporating organic materials. She studied architecture at the Academy of Architecture, Mum bai (2003–2008) and later trained in Classical Realism at the Watts Atelier of the Arts, California (2022) and the Florence Academy of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden (2023). Shinde’s architectural training and practice in Mumbai formed the groundwork of her artistic ap proach. Through projects spanning diverse scales and functions, she developed a sensitivity to how memory and socio-economic disparities are inscribed within the built environment.
Her oil paintings turn toward the present. They trace the movement of light and the persistence of the city, speaking to the passage of time and the permanence of change. Rendered in crimson hues that recall ear ly monotone prints, these hyperrealistic works probe what it means to see the world through rose-tinted glasses. Vast skies hover above urban outlines, evok ing the fragile balance between the intimate and the infinite, as Shinde holds memory without anchoring it to a fixed moment.