Nature Shankar

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.