Play & Motion

ABOUT

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

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https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-explore/attend-a-mumbai-exhibition-depicting-dreams-through-dioramas-doll-houses-moving-images

https://www.radioandmusic.com/entertainment/editorial/news/250409-three-times-dream-art-show-explores-the

https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/8-new-art-shows-in-mumbai-and-delhi-were-excited-about-this-april/

https://www.businessworld.in/article/bw-masterpiece-40-under-40-and-art-excellence-awards-2025-547682

https://yourstory.com/2019/12/serendipity-arts-festival-adventurers-innovators

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https://befantastic.in/artists/

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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/

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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

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https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/meet-muzzle-man-artist-interprets-plight-undertrial-prisoners-india-73405

https://www.artsy.net/show/galerie-krinzinger-air-2017

https://waaresidency.org/what-about-art-residency-programme/

http://retiary.org/idea/idea5/idea_5/crossing/crossing.htm


Contact ruchibakshisharma@gmail.com +91 98209 38322 Aksa Village, Madh Island, Mumbai

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