Next Stop, Instability
- Digital Art Printed on Canvas
- 22.4 x 24 in
- $3,200
- Smishdesigns
-
Available
Smishdesigns is a contemporary Indian digital illustrator and designer. Charged with meaning and drenched in colour, her work reveals and questions the social constructs of gender, prejudice and power. Publishing under an alias, she has emerged as a strong voice in Indian protest culture. She regularly inspires conversation and concern for human rights and social justice on her online platforms. She began her art practice in the year 2019 after the national elections. She started to make socio-political art for her online platforms ever since as a reaction to the human rights violations happening in her country, India. It has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride for her ever since then, be it online trolling or people carrying her artworks to protest sites, her journey of resistance through art has transpired in different forms. What thoroughly inspires her work is people’s movements and political upheavals. She finds that immensely motivating to keep creating resistance art and raise awareness about issues close to her heart.
Smish Designs is a graduate in Graphic Design from the Parsons School of Design in New York. Since then, she has been featured in countless magazines, dailies and independent news platforms including Taz.de Berlin, Vice, Amnesty International, CNNNews18, the Gal-dem Magazine, The Hindu, The Quint, Hindustan Times and The Times of India.
Born in 1988, she currently lives and works in Mumbai, India.
- Subject Matter: Narrative
- Collections: 2023 - Storytellers