Rekha Rodwittiya
Baroda
Presented Rekha@Sixty at Sakshi Gallery, celebrating 60 years of her feminist ideals
This was a landmark year for artist Rekha Rodwittiya. Her exhibition, Rekha@Sixty, was a celebration of six decades of her ideas, the focal point of which was women. "I have lived my life by a strict adherence to feminist ideals since I was 18 years old, and till date, this remains the most vital core of my existence," she says. "It makes the feminist space the very DNA of my existence."

Rodwittiya, an alumnus of MS University of Baroda and Royal College of Art, London, has presented a decade-defining exhibition since she was 30 years old. "I was on a residency in Stockholm when I turned 30, and had a solo show, in which I had a large charcoal work titled A Milestone on a Journey that indicated three decades of investigation [of her life]. At 40, I had an exhibition at Studio Barbieri in Venice titled Evocations that marked the entry into this decade. In 2008, I exhibited Rekha@Fifty as a celebration of the beginning of this halfway mark of my own life's experiences."