Top 10 young artists whose works you should start following now

PARUL GUPTA36New Delhi spatial drawings Gets gallerist Dr Arshiya Lokhandwalas voteWhat makes Paruls practice distinct is her careful reading and engaging with the environment inspired by architectural lines Her interest lies in what happens when the line leaves the paper and enters the space as she has done in her recent work Spatial DrawingInstallationHer unique methodology helps her express subtle shifts in the environment whether it is through drawing on paper photography or a sitespecific installation As Parul suggests her work is a line taken for a walkDrawing Sculpture 3 powder coat on aluminium rods 2016See Her At Artist project at India Art Fair 2017NARESH KUMAR28Mumbai rawings and performanceGets art consultant Farah Siddiquis voteNaresh has been selected to be part of Passagens collateral events of the 57th Venice Biennale at The Palazzo Loredan on Campo Santo Stefano ItalyHe is being appreciated more internationally than in IndiaResidue photographs of a performance shown at the Gwangju Biennale 2016There are two parts to his work he refers to art history and weaves in his own personal narratives A work to see is from a series called Stories My Country Told Me in which he uses indigo to tell the historic fight of indigo planters and his own story of migrationSee him at Solo show at New Gallery Paris in 2017NIBHA SIKANDER33BarodaJanjira papercut worksGets gallerist Hena Kapadias voteNibhas intricately composed paper cutouts create three dimensional creatures real and imaginedMoth03 2016 65 inches in diameterA graduate of MSU Baroda she works with immense precision and in detail to make almost truetolife insects butterflies and birdsHer series of papercut insects was displayed at the Godrej India Culture Lab in Vikhroli for a period of six months starting November 2015 Her interest in life and engagement with her process is palpable in her work and Im certain that her work will grow immensely in the coming yearsSee Her At Solo show at Tarq in December 2018Confronted Landscape from a series under progressMADHU DAS29Mumbai installations and drawingsGets gallerist Mortimer Chatterjees voteI first got to know the work of Madhu Das through his application to the Inlaks Fine Art AwardsIt was immediately clear that he was an incredibly gifted artist Since then he has received a number of awards including residencies at the TIFA studios Pune and Harvard University USAAt the heart of Madhus wildly diverse work which includes land art and performance is a wit that sweetens what are often weighty themes He has big presence on the Mumbai contemporary art scene as a collaborator confidant and general manabouttownSee Him At Emerging Artists from South Asia Harvard in March 2017AYESHA SINGH26New DelhiChicago sculptures installation and photographsGets art patron Feroze Gujrals voteAyesha is a young artist studying at the School of the Arts Institute of ChicagoHybrid Drawings 2016 in wrought ironHer works explore the physical conversion of twodimensional drawings and photographs into threedimensional spaces that can be walked through and experiencedThrough photography sculpture and installation the works delve into conversations about hybrid constructions that emulate architectural tropes from various culturesSee Her At Hyde Park Art Center Chicago in February 2017Wreathe made of oak tree roots and metal standANJANA KOTHAMACHU31MumbaiBengaluru video and sculptureGets art india editor Abhay Sardesais voteIn videos composed with lyrical intensity Anjana sensitively explores the interwarfare between shapes objects colours and mood She has been a student of sculpture animation and psychologyHer installations often use branches roots and other found material and interestingly many of them are mounted in public spaces between buildings in niches or suspended overheadHer performance art projects have tried to unsettle the givens of gender and identity positionsSee Her At Art installation at Cubbon Park Metro Station Bengaluru this summerAMOL PATIL29Mumbai video installation and sculptureGets curator Zasha Colahs voteAmols first solo was at the age of 25 in 2013 at Clark House a union of artists It was critically acclaimed with significant reviews in leading art magazines He may be one of the only artists in the world to have achieved this with a first soloWhen Beatrix Ruf a dynamic curator and director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam saw his work in a group show in 2014 she advised the museum buy it and they didSleep Walker made of dust and found objects from the series Kamarados at HabitCoHabit Pune Biennale 2017Amol studied under Nikhil Chopra in Mumbai and realised his capacity for performance art and the performative capacity of objects which he turned to discuss death and life in audiotapes skin colour the theatre and the kineticism of the Bombay chawlSee Him At Clark House Collective ColabaShoot for the Moon Even If You Miss You will Land Among the StarsABHISHEK NARAYAN VERMA26Baroda lithographsGets gallerist Priyasri Patodias voteI have been following his practice since he was a student at the College of Arts VadodaraI came across his work titled Dysfunctionality III which left an impact on meThe strategy of using humour to convey tragedy was intriguing and interesting Abhishek says printmaking helps him understand the multiple view of a single element like the mirror images prints and that he can be involved at every step physically and mentallySee Him At Artist Print 3 show this summer at Priyasri Art GalleryIndestructible past of the city 2013 installed at Jaya He GVK MuseumCHARMI GADA SHAH36Mumbai sculptures and installationsGets curator and cultural theorist Nancy Adajanias voteCharmi a post graduate from the Chelsea College of Art London conducts a forensic study of our derelict neighbourhoods and heritage structuresShe pieces together broken tiles and flaking plaster making miniature models from clues collected from a botched crime scene boardedup windows bridges that go nowhere or staircases that hang in the airHers is not nostalgia for the urban ruin or a commitment to restore the past to pristine glorySee Her At Jaya He GVK Museum Mumbai International AirportDust We Breathe from a solo show Lifetimes at Vadehra Art Gallery 2014GIPIN VARGHESE36Thiruvananthapuram paintingsGets gallerist Roshini Vadehras voteGipin received his BFA Painting from College of Fine Arts Trivandrum and won FICAs Emerging Artist Award in 2012 He holds a PhD in mural and altar paintings of Keralas churches as wellHis works while detailed and beautifully presented look at news and imagery of violence death and struggle emerging from nonurban contexts within IndiaGipin often goes about redocumenting popular images from sensationalised news stories paying tribute in his own language to the human element of loss and struggle that are realities forgotten in a fastpaced worldSee Him At India Art Fair 2017