Hansa Sethi | Artist at Mondoir

Nationality: Indian

Discipline: Mixed Media

Born: 1995

Based in: Jabalpur, IN

Biography

Hansa Sethi is a contemporary artist whose practice is rooted in psychological and philosophical inquiry. Her work explores the intersections of thought, emotion, and existence, where internal states become sites for questions around identity, survival, and being. Shaped by lived experience, Sethi engages themes of inner conflict, vulnerability, resilience, and the fragile threshold between losing oneself and choosing to remain. Rather than resolving these tensions, her work holds space for them, revealing the silent negotiations of the mind. Through layered visual language, she transforms psychological experience into forms that invite reflection on the complexities of living.

Artist Statement

My practice is rooted in a lifelong relationship with drawing and image-making, which began in childhood as an instinctive way of observing, processing, and expressing the world around me. What began as a natural impulse gradually developed into a sustained artistic language through which I continue to explore the complexities of human experience. A significant turning point deepened this relationship with art. During a period of severe depression, I experienced an invisible emotional weight—what I describe as an unseen gravity. Art became a necessary space through which I could confront, understand, and endure that experience. While that moment transformed my direction, my practice has since expanded into a broader inquiry into psychology, behavior, and existence. I am drawn to the contradictions within life: how a person can appear whole, stable, and vibrant outwardly while carrying an internal void that resists explanation. My work explores psychological states, emotional conflict, vulnerability, and resilience, alongside philosophical questions of meaning, identity, and the nature of being. Working through emotional abstraction, I seek to give form to feelings that cannot easily be spoken. Color, texture, and layered compositions become vehicles for tension, fragmentation, beauty, and endurance. I am especially interested in paradox—the coexistence of heaviness with vitality, despair with color, and silence with intensity. Each work becomes a space where presence and absence, fullness and emptiness, color and void can exist simultaneously. Through this process, I aim to create images that invite reflection on how we feel, survive, and make meaning within the human condition.

Exhibitions

2026 Circle 2026 – International Exhibition (Part 1), CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea Summer Exhibition — Shortlisted, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom MEGA 2026 Exhibition: A Global Dialogue Through Art, Biafarin Kalamrat National Art Exhibition 2026, National Kalidas Sanskrit Akademi, Ujjain, India The Dalí’s Existentialism Art Contest Online Exhibition, The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, United States Arts North International 31, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Video Tour, Hopkins, Minnesota, United States 2025 ART Expo Ljubljana 2025, Creative Cube – Digital Art Showcase, Ljubljana, Slovenia Biafarin Awards 2025 Exhibition: A Global Dialogue Through Art, Biafarin Exposed 2025 Exhibition: A Journey Into Vulnerability and Truth, Biafarin Vivere 2025 Exhibition: Honoring the Beauty and Struggle of Being Alive, Biafarin Motile Art: 5th International Online Art Exhibition, 2025 The New Artist – Boomer Gallery (8th Edition), 150 Tooley Street, SE1 2TU, London, United Kingdom

Awards

2026 Forthcoming, Art Seen Magazine by The Curator’s Salon, Summer 2026 Forthcoming, Anodyne Magazine, Vol. 7 National Kalamrat Art Recognition (2025–26), Ujjain, India — honored for artistic excellence, creativity, and contribution to fine art Tulipwood Books, Seedfall Volume Two: Emergence Featured Artist, PHIL LIT Journal, Spring 2026, Issue No. 3 2025 Highly Commended, Homiens Art Prize, Fall 2025, United States Curated Interview, Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain Finalist, 10th Figurative International Juried Art Competition, Teravarna Finalist, Everything Abstract, Fusion Art Gallery Honored for Excellence in Fine Arts — The Indian Art Fest Special Recognition Award, 15th Open Painting & Other Media, Light Space & Time Online Gallery Honorable Mention, 13th Open International Juried Art Competition, Teravarna