malavika rao

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malavika rao (b. Chennai, India) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working across mediums of painting, ceramics, fiber, video, and installation, malavika’s practice explores homemaking as a method of worldmaking. malavika looks to ancestral knowledge, inherited materials, and the temporal powers of crafting to and construct portals to the past to imagine alternative narratives for the future. Drawing from homemaking and crafting practices, malavika aims to work with their community to build and maintain spaces of healing as a way of articulating resistance to dominant familial and social power structures. malavika received their MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and currently resides in Los Angeles, where they teach in the foundation department at Otis College of Art and Design. They have taught workshops at California Institute of the Arts, Craft Contemporary, and Heavy Manners Library, and they organize and facilitate free education workshops and programs around the city. Their work has been exhibited at Human Resources Gallery, Venice Art Walk, SOMArts Cultural Center, and Yiwei Gallery, among others.