Artist Profile

Santosh Jain came to art-making in the 70s as a young Printmaker from College Of Art, Delhi. Her prints earned her prestigious awards, a 2 years fellowship to the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Netherlands, solo shows in Paris and Amsterdam and an inclusion in prominent artist associations in India.

By using mediums as a language of expression, Jain’s practice over the years has included lithographs, collages, paintings and photographs. The past decade of her career has centered around Digital Landscapes (Photography Mixed Media) – a dexterous play of her original photographs of the everyday with art softwares and conventional inks, pastels, pen and charcoal.

Her recurring subjects include ‘women’ and ‘the exploited’ that expand into empathy and layered personal narratives. She refers to these works as ‘her second language, which allows her to freely share long forgotten episodes of her life and her innermost feelings’. Her creative process is intense and each creation is a unique edition.

Jain is currently based in Delhi