What I do
I am an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in painting. In my artwork, I explore the place, and how it relates to home and my identity. I am investigating what home means to me, where I have a sense of belonging, and what this space looks like. My understanding of home is affected by my relationships with people, and my experiences in a place.
Awards and Grants
- Portfolio Scholarship, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN, 2016 – present
- International Student Art sale Scholarship, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2016-19
- Fine Arts Department Merit scholarship: Class of 1978 Merit Scholarship, MN 2019
- Fine Arts Department Merit scholarship: Christian Hans Nielsen Material Scholarship, MN 2018
Artist Bio
Tanvi Kulkarni is an Indian artist and teaching artist currently based in Minneapolis, MN. She is pursuing a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts degree in Drawing and Painting with Teaching Artist minor. She usually identify herself as a painter but her practice also involves paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, ceramics, glass, performance, photography, and bookmaking. Kulkarni aims to create art about belonging and identity. Her goal is to play with the ideas about existence and interaction between mind and reality in her art.
She is inspired by landscape artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Martin Johnson Heade, April Gornik, Gregory Euclide, Antonio Lopez Garcia, and Israel Hershberg. Kulkarni has participated in group exhibitions Barnes & Thornbury law offices exhibition and Minneapolis College of Art. She has worked as a teaching artist for the Avivo Artworks, Task Unlimited, Simpson Housing, Passage community, Children’s residential treatment center Minneapolis based organizations that are working for people with mental illness.
She has worked as teaching artist at Unmesh Inamdar Art Academy, India, and Art buddies, MN, which runs art programs for children. Kulkarni intends to share the language of art with others through her teaching practice. The healing as a part of art that she wants to focus in the future for her teaching practice.