Nature Shakar

Nature Shankar (b.1996, Singapore) is a mixed-media painter whose practice explores the body as a site of
emotional memory—personal, generational, communal, and political. She works predominantly with
techniques and materials such as paper pulp, fabric, embroidery, and collage to create her mixed media
paintings. Her approach to painting foregrounds touch, tactility, and the act of making as a means of
reclaiming embodied knowledge. Through an experimentally driven, abstraction-oriented process, Shankar
seeks to shift attention from outward perception to inward experience—reacquainting the self with the body
as a conscious mediator of presence, identity, and meaning. Her work is deeply informed by the embodied and
emotional experience of womanhood. She draws from familial relationships and lore, cultural myths and
legends, experiences of sexuality, and feminine rage.
Shankar has exhibited internationally such as at Gajah Gallery (Yogyakarta), The Esplanade (Singapore), Art
Fair Philippines, Singapore Art Week and New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation. She has
participated in residencies internationally such as: ChaNorth (NY), OH!Open House (Singapore), Studio
Batur (Indonesia) and The LMCC Arts Center Residency (NYC). She is currently based in Brooklyn.