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Caroline Loncol Daigneault is a writer, researcher, and curator. Using writing as a primary light, she tracks down art practices still in the shadows, as well as the links between art and the environment.

Artist Statement

I am curious about spatial encounters; a combination of objective reality and subjective perception play an active role in my practice. My work is deeply rooted in mathematics and geometry, including the philosophical dimensions to these subjects, spilling over into physics, metaphysics, and psychology.

Trained as a painter, I prefer to work mainly with the medium of drawing, but my practice does extend into site-specific sculptural works as well. My drawings are a notation of daily thoughts or an extension to the thoughts. Almost always limited to the size of an A4-sized sheet of paper, they run parallel to my spatial works and deal with fundamental elements of visual art like line, shape, form, and concepts of geometry.

For my site-specific works, I look at the intended purpose of a space, and through my artistic interventions in this space, I try to open up situations in which the same space can be re-imagined. I look at ordinary surroundings and their mundane nature and respond to them by adding, removing, and twisting by playing with perceptions through texture, scale, and form.

My practice lies in the journey from the precise to the abstract, from the known to the unknown, at the edge of doubt/uncertainty/surprise/absurdity.

EDUCATION

2014 MVA–Faculty of Fine Art [painting], M.S.U. Vadodara, India.

2011 Indian Aesthetics certificate courses – Kalina University, Mumbai, India.

2008 Diploma in Art Education–Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai, India.

2006 G.D.Art– L.S.Raheja School of Art, Bandra, Mumbai, India.

2002 Foundation Course – Model Art Institute, Dadar, Mumbai, India.

WORK / ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Currently Visiting Faculty for Visual Studies at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture.

2023-24 Visiting Faculty at Sea [School Of Environment Architecture] and IES Mumbai.

2015-25 Visiting faculty at the Academy of Architecture at Rachana Sansad, Mumbai, for the subject -Allied Design, Architecture Design and Architectural Representation & Detailing.

2017-24 Visiting faculty at B.VOC Rachana Sansad, Mumbai, for the Basic Design subject.

2015-16 Visiting lecturer at L.S. Raheja School of Art (Fine Art), Bandra, Mumbai and Academy of Art and Craft, Rachana Sansad, Mumbai.

2011-13 Assistant lecturer at Rachana Sansad School of Art and Craft, Mumbai.

2009-12 Drawing Teacher at TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Child Care Centre, Mumbai.

AWARDS/ GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2020 Space118 Fine Arts Grant.
2019 Resident, at SPACE STUDIO, Baroda City and Architecture, Feb –May

2018 Awardee, Junior Fellowship 2017-2018 by Ministry of Culture, Gov. of India.

2015 Resident at What About Art Bandra, Mumbai India. April-May

2015 Verticale Artist Center, short residency, Laval, Canada. OCT.

2015 Kochi Biennale Foundation PG Residency collaboration with Palette people, Vagamon, Kerala, India. May.

2015 Activating Space by Khoj international artist association, Delhi, India. Apr.

2014 Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation supporting International (India-Quebec) Residency at The Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada. Sep-Nov.

2014 Khoj peers share program, at ‘Khoj international artist association’, Delhi, India.

2014 Awardee, Nasreen Mohamedi in MVA Display, M.S.U. Baroda, India.

2006 Awarded 2nd in Art Society of India Exhibition, a Jahangir art gallery, Mumbai, India.

Award received from L.S.Raheja School of art Annual Exhibition, Mumbai, India.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 First SOLO show at Gallery OPTICA in Montreal, Canada, Nov-Dec.

2025 Solo Booth at India Art Fair, Delhi.

Behind The Facade at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025-26 The Sculpture Park at Jaigarh, Curated by Peter Nagy, Jaipur, India.

2025 New Interiors: The Deceived Self at State Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India (presented by Gallery
Dotwalk).

2025 Mycelial Legacies IV: The Ground We Share, Curated by Deeksha Nath at Anant Art Gallery, New
Delhi, India.

2025 An Invisible Bind at Sameksha Art Gallery, New Delhi, India.

2025 Views From Within - Space Studio at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India.

2025 Material as Metaphors | A Dialogue of Art Forms at Old Currency Building, National Gallery of
Modern Art, Kolkata, India.

2025 Art Soiree at Stoonex, Rajasthan, India.

2024 Telling Time Under The Soil at Bikaner House, Delhi.

sculpture by the sea, Bondi.Sydney, Australia.

‘Common Ground’ Indian Ceramic Triennial, at Arthashila, Delhi.

2023 ‘in the room of One’s own’ show at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai.

2022 Parsec curated by Nupur Dalmia at Gallery ARK, Vadodara, IN. March.

2021 Mumbai Billboard Bus Shelter public art project by Priyashri Art Gallery, Mumbai. Oct.

Terrain Offline at Bikaner House, Delhi, In.

Patterns of Intensity curated by Ranjit Hoskote at Art Alive Gallery, Delhi, In.

In The Light Of curated by Gitanjali Dang at Gallery Ark, Vadodara, January and at Sakshi Gallery.

2020 Hindsight 20/20, Gallery Ark, Vadodara, India.

All is not lost 20:20:20 curated by Saloni Doshi at Sakshi Gallery. Oct.

2019 Shared spaces at Kala Chaupal Gallery, Gurgaon.

Beyond the Recurring Motif at Art Centrix Gallery Delhi. April.

2016 A Point & Line to Plane XII at Gallery Beyond. Aug. Visual Infinity at Kala Dirgha art gallery. Maharashtra, India.

2006 Camlin Art Exhibition, at Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai, India. Participated in the Bajaj Art Exhibition at Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai, India.

PROJECTS

2024 10 Feet metal sculpture at Zaveri Bazaar traffic island.

2023 Art Installation at Bangalore International Airport Ltd. Terminal 2

2019-2024 Reception building for Rubamin factory at Halol, Gujarat with LandscapeIndia architecture firm.

2022 Mural on the façade of the Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai.

ART FAIRS & BIENNALES / INSTITUTIONAL PARTICIPATIONS

26-24, 23, 22: India Art Fair with Sakshi Gallery.

2023 Mumbai Art Fair,

2021 Hub India: Maximum Minimum curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio at Artissima, Italy.

2018 Navigation is offline at Bhubaneshwar Art Trail, Odisha.

Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 with ‘case design’ in Itly.

When Is Space? contemporary architecture exhibition curated by Rupali Guptey and Prasad Shetty at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur.

2016 Young Subcontinent curated by Riyas Komu at Serendipity Art Festival in Dec, Goa, India.

Bori Bunder Public art project with ArtO2 in Oct, Mumbai.

2015 in situ mind-space with Artist Centre Verticale, Laval, Canada.

Bartered collection at Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India.

2011 A project for universities in the 54th Venice Biennale Sessions, Italy.

WORKSHOPS / TALKS / PRESENTATIONS

2024 Talk and presentation ‘Land and Development’ at Flame University, Pune.

Presentation and panel discussion as part of ICT24 at Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai.

2023-24 Thesis Jury at Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts, Rachana Sansad, Mumbai.

2022 Ways of Seeing elective at Kamala Raheja School of Architecture, Mumbai. Feb.

2020 External Review for the module on the water at CEPT, Ahmedabad.

2019 Elective module conducted at 'School of Environment Architecture' &

Rachana Sansad Academy of Architecture, B.VOC & faculty of fine art, Mumbai.

Presentation at a seminar on Women in Art at SNDT, Mumbai.

2018 Artist talk/presentation at M.S.U. Baroda, July and

Rachana Sansad school of architecture in Aug.

2017 Presentation & talk at Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada.

Panellist for the symposium “The Pleasure of Making” at 'The School of Environmental architecture’ [SEA], Borivali, Mumbai, India.

Presentation and talk at what about art, Badra.

2013 Participant of ‘International mural Painting camp’ at Kottayam, Kerala, India.

Participated in a ‘sound workshop’ conducted by Igal in M.S.U. Baroda, India.

PRESS / REVIEWS/ CURATORIAL CATALOGUES / PUBLICATION

2024 Text ‘Ladies First’ by Neerja Deodhar, Mid-Day, Mumbai.

2018 Text by Hannah Barnes, Indiana, USA on work at Bhubaneswar Art Trail, Odisa.

2017 Text by Jérôme Delgado Montreal's daily newspaper, Le Devoir

Part of 'HAKARA ' a bi-lingual journal of creative expression publication, India.

Mind Space Publication with writer Caroline Loncol Daigneault by Gallery Verticale, Canada.

2016 Mid-Day article by Sumedha Raikar.

Text BY ANUJ DAGA, Young Subcontinent -Curatorial Assistant to Riyas Komu, Serendipity Arts Trust.

2014 Participated in a group for ‘Insert2014’ publication. Delhi