Bio

Group Exhibitions

2022 Studio Open Day at InCube FICA Art Residency

2022 Indie Comics Festival, Goethe Institute

2022 ‘Sanaa Festival’Kerry Packer Gallery, Adelaide, Australia.

2019 ‘Mytholithics; Graphic art from India’ Fumetto, Lucerne, Switzerland

2016 ‘A Becoming Resemblance’ Fridman Gallery, New York, USA 

2010 ‘Posters on Climate Change’ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India

Grants and Residencies

2022 InCube Artist in Residence at FICA, New Delhi

2022 ArtReach KNMA Teaching Fellowship

2017 Thoughtworks Arts Residency (Collaboration with Artist in residence)

Published Comics, Illustrated Stories & Essays

2014 ‘Miss Moth’ Papercuts, Print Edition

2014  Sketches featured in the JaggeryLit online magazine

2015 ‘Black Panther & Little Fish’ The Indian Quarterly, Print Edition

2016 ’Suppressed Images’ The New Enquiry

2016 ‘Siren Calls’ The Indian Quarterly, Print Edition

2016 ’Sketches: JNU’s March for India’ Daily O

2017 ‘A Clutter of Perceptions’, The Indian Quarterly, Print Edition

2017 ‘On Chelsea Manning’s many Portraits’ Guftugu

2018 ‘Are We Dead’ The Indian Quarterly, Print Edition

2019 ‘Deep Dive’ The Indian Quarterly, Print Edition

2019 ‘What Science can show you about Culture’ Indian Cultural Forum

2020 The Quarantine Diaries, Scroll.in

2020 The Public Distribution System and Biometrics in India

2020 How Changed Consumption Habits Can Protect Planetary Boundaries

Education

Mirambika School (1994) and Rishi Valley School (ISC 1998)

Bachelor of Philosophy, St Stephens College, Delhi University (2001)

Intermediate Japanese Language, Soka University, Tokyo (2002)

Master of Design, University of New South Wales, Sydney (2006)

Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, Painting (2015)

Teaching experience

Shoili has taught a semester long design course at The School of Planning and Architecture; Conducted sequential art workshops Pearl Academy of Design / Ashoka University / Katha Publications / Mirambika School