Deepikah R B (born 1985) is an interdisciplinary artist from India. Trained in Communication design from New Delhi, she uses painting and installation art to express issues related to gender, interconnectedness and ecology. Her project “Trial Room” tackles body dysmorphia and social conditioning, and was exhibited at Gender Bender 2018 and then at The Irregulars Art Fair in 2019. She was one of the three selected for virtual residency Fissure, curated by Shaleen Wadhwana by Pollinator which culminated as the project Sarv Satvik Rashtra | Atmanirbhar 2Q48 in January 2021. She was artist and organizer for the show “Aliens Aren’t Coming" that she also conceptualized in the summer of 2023. She is focusing on relationships between the human and non-human in her thesis at MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at OCAD university, Toronto. Deepikah was also the recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship in 2023. 

Exhibitions

• Dec  2023: Gelling Group Exhibit At Support Gallery, Montreal
• Sept 2023: Nurture in Death Co-Artist, Eastend Arts For Nuit Blanche, Tornoto
• July 2023: Nature Not Mother 2.0, Artist & Organiser, The Aliens Aren’t Coming, Group Show, Ocadu, Tornoto
• May 2023  Nature Not Mother, Artist & Organiser, Too Big To Fail, Student Group Show, Ocadu, Tornoto
• Dec 2022: Shrine Of Domesticity, The Incomplete, Student Group Show, The Great Hall, Ocadu, Tornoto
• Apr 2021: Nature Not Mother, Grant By The British Council
• Apr 2021: Rest Your Thoughts Here | Artist & Curator, The Gender Chronicles, Bangalore, India
• Feb 2021: Futura Tropica | Biryani As A Hyperobject (Online)
• Jan 2021: Sarv Satvik Rashtra | Atmanirbhar 2q48, Polinator (Online), New Delhi, India
• Feb 2019: Trial Room 2.0 At The Irregular Art Fair New Delhi, India
• Aug 2018: Trial Room Installation & Zine Bangalore, India
• Nov 2018: Goa Affordable Art Fest, Museum Of Goa, Goa, India
• Jan 2017: Designxdesign 20under35 New Delhi, India
• Jan 2017: Museum Of Memories (Group Exhibit) Bangalore, India
• Sep 2016: Gender Bender 2016 By Sandbox Collective Bangalore, India
• May 2016: Gave birth to my only child

Professional Experience

• 2007 Ast. Producer at MTV India for Viacom 18, Mumbai
• 2010 Freelace at Disney, Nickelodian
• 2011 Design Head at Sparklin, N.Delhi
• 2012- Now Artist at Deepikah.co

Press and Media Coverage

• 2023 CBC Article : “This Show is Too Big To Fail.”
• 2022 Interview : Voice of Fashion : Why do we hate our bodies?
• 2020 Review: StirWorld Magazine : Pollinator residency- SarvSatvikRashtra
• 2020 Feature by The Alipore Post : Quarantine Art
• 2018 Podcast: Interview with RJ Shruti about The Trial Room Project

Skills

• Painting, Installation Art
• Exhibition Making and Organizing
• Project Management, Organization, 
• Communication & Publicity Design
• Artist Talks, Programming