EDUCATION       2001-2003   Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking   2002   Study Abroad Program, Japan Wintersession, The Rhode Island School of Design   2002   Palazzo Cenci, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy Painting and Art History Study Program   1998-2001   College of Art, New Delhi, India, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting (transferred to Rhode Island School of Design)   1999   Pont Aven School of Art, Brittany, France Summer course: Printmaking and Experimental Works on Paper           SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS       2009   The Geometry of Error, Gallery Espace, New Delhi   2007   Anecdote, Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi   2006   [Drawings and Prints] , Triveni Gallery, New Delhi   2003   Lucent, Benson Hall Gallery, Rhode Island, USA   2002   Vaaz, Benson Hall Gallery, Rhode Island, USA           SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS       2009   Re-visioning Materiality II, Gallery Espace, New Delhi   2009   On Canvas, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi   2008   PLACE, Anant Art Gallery, Delhi   2008   India Art Summit 2008, Pragati Maidan, Delhi   2008   Keep drawing! Gallery Espace, Delhi   2008   Ethos 4, Indigo Blue Art Gallery, Singapore   2008   Art Dubai, Gallery Espace, Dubai   2007   Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York   2007   Art in step, Gallerie Ganesha   2007   Surface and Textures, Gallery Espace and Ganges Art, Kolkata   2007   High on Art, Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi   2007   Portfolio show at Southern Graphics Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, USA   2006   India on Canvas, Auction and Exhibition   2006   Multiplicity and the Self,, Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi   2006   Footprints – Women in printmakingGallery Chemould, Mumbai - Colab Art and Architecture, Bangalore, and WelcomArt Gallery, Vadodra       2006   17/03, at ABS Lanxess Gallery, Vadodara, Gujrat   2005   Blur, Montecastello Art Gallery, Montecastello, Italy   2005   Imaging Materiality, Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi   2004   Navsar, Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Center, Delhi   2003   Arches Annual Print Exhibition, A Juried exhibition 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA   2002   Roma, Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy   2001   Print Matrix: Print Media Exhibition Fine Arts Gallery, Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A.   1999   Scapes, Gauguin Gallery, Pont Aven, Brittany, France         WORKSHOP AND RESIDENCY       2007   Artist in Residence, Indo-French Residency Programme   2007   Painting and mixed media residency, School Visual Arts, New York   2006   Annual RPG art camp, Marve, Mumbai   2006   Learning Center, Art Instructor, Kusumpur-pahari, New Delhi   2005   Artist in Residence at International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Montecastello, Umbria, Italy   2002   Assistant Instructor, Monotype Printmaking Printmaking Department, The Rhode Island School of Design, U.S.A.   2006   Atelier 2221, Intaglio, Relief and Lithography Workshop by - master printmaker, Devraj Dakoji, New Delhi           AWARDS AND HONOURS       2003   Awarded Student of the Year, Printmaking Rhode Island School of Design, USA   2002   G. W. Hodge Ritchie Award for Excellence in Printmaking, USA               Anecdote (c) Copyright Text by Roobina Karode, Art Critic       Mekhala Bahl indulges the seemingly arbitrary and revels in embedding inscrutable marks and forms within her painted gestures. Her works represent extracts from the everyday, which appear independent of overt imagery and similitude. It is in a mode of intensified expression that Mekhala captures precious moments of wonder and adventure. In fact, she repackages the tangible world with ideographs, signs and traces of observed reality. Unstructured and floating, her created world is open to instantaneous suggestion. Anonymous lines and shapes seem to record moments of discovery while traversing space, caught, as if in a dreamy moment.     Works by Mekhala Bahl (c) Copyright Text by Latika Gupta, Art historian and curator       Mekhala Bahl trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, after which she returned to India in 2003 to pursue her individual art practice. Mekhala has never restricted herself to single techniques or media. She has worked with materials as diverse as glass, wood, silk, paper, plastic and quilting. Her technical oeuvre extends from block -printing, etching and lithography, to drawing, painting or simply marks scratched on to the matrix. Mekhala creates endless possibilities; blurring and divesting watertight categories of their legitimacy in her art making. The scale of her work too, ranges from small intimate images to vast canvases, neither, adhering to practiced formulae.