I make art from dreams — literally. For many years I have kept a dream journal, and every work from THREE TIMES AS DREAM is traceable to a specific night, a specific image, written down before I opened my eyes. The shadow boxes, the lenticulars, the dream furniture — all of it begins there.
I studied Communication Design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. My work has been shown at the India Art Fair ( Invited by Sudarshan Shetty - 2018, 2019 ), Serendipity Arts Festival Goa (Invited by Sneha Khanwalkar 2019), Galerie Krinzinger/ Projekte Vienna (2017–18), One World Foundation Sri Lanka (2017), and GALLERYSKE Bangalore (2017). My experimental films have screened at festivals in Japan, the US, Canada and Bangladesh. I have taught courses at the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, Parsons ISDI Mumbai; Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Xavier’s Institute of Communication, and IIT Mumbai. My most recent solo show, Three Times as Dream, ran for forty days at 47-A Design Gallery in Mumbai's Khotachiwadi heritage district in 2025. I was awared a bronze in Business Worlds’ Masterpiece's Art Excellence Awards in 2025.
I live and work in Aksa village, Madh Island, Mumbai — a fishing village at the edge of the city where the relationship to the handmade still makes complete sense. This is where AIRDROME, the studio and collective I co-founded with my husband Sanjeev Sharma, has its home.
Sanjeev Sharma is a poet, lyricist, filmmaker and furniture installation artist. He has been the primary Hindi lyricist for Indian Ocean — one of India's most beloved bands — from near the inception of their career, writing songs across albums including Kandisa and Jhini. He wrote lyrics for Masaan, Peepli [Live] and Shaitan, and directed the magical realist cult comedy Saat Uchakkey (2016), featuring Manoj Bajpayee, Kay Kay Menon, Annu Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Vijay Raaz, Aparshakti Khurana & Jatin Sarna. His furniture installation works draw on the colonial architectural heritage of Mumbai — objects that are, as he describes them, tiny buildings you can live with. Together our practices ask the same question from different directions: what does an object hold, and how do you build a container for something invisible?
Press Outlook India · Architectural Digest India · The Hindu · Mid-Day · BW Businessworld · Homegrown
https://www.outlookindia.com/art-and-museums/making-meanings-of-our-own
https://yourstory.com/2019/12/serendipity-arts-festival-adventurers-innovators
https://www.mid-day.com/articles/valuable-words/22828228
https://befantastic.in/artists/
https://www.mid-day.com/articles/a-box-for-lifes-memories/21988160
https://ficart.org/new-page-65
https://openthemagazine.com/art-culture/india-art-fair-present-continuous/
https://www.instagram.com/_airdrome_/
https://thenavhindtimes.in/article/the-project-cafe-art-spaces-launched-in-assagao
https://owf.at/art-literature-programme/?lang=en
https://www.artsy.net/show/galerie-krinzinger-air-2017
https://waaresidency.org/what-about-art-residency-programme/
Contact ruchibakshisharma@gmail.com +91 98209 38322 Aksa Village, Madh Island, Mumbai
Instagram: @ruchi_bakshi_sharma · @airdrome