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Vani Bhushan (b. 1998, New Delhi) is an Indian photojournalist based in New Haven, CT. Her work questions the limits of witnessing; she photographs landscapes shaped by protest and erasure in India. Her work lingers in the provisional: where looking is uncertain, where presence is always conditional. It traces the image as a site of discomfort; here, the photograph does not resolve—it hovers, marked by denial and delayed by desire.
Using photography and moving image, she considers what remains when visibility falters. To look, for her, is not passive. It is personal, and never without risk.
contact: vanibhushanstudio@gmail.com
2020 - BDes, Textile Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, IN
2025 - First Breath Second Sight, Yale Gallery, New Haven, CT
2025 - CCAM Studio Fellowship Exhibition, New Haven, CT
2025 - GHAR, Khoj, New Delhi, IN
2024 - UPWARDS SPIRAL, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2023 - why do I always fall out of bed at night?, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2023 - Contemporary Women Photographers Exhibition - National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, IN
2024 - Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2024 - CCAM Studio Fellowship, Yale University
2025 - Video and Film Workshop, Yale University, CT
2025, 2024 - Yale University, CT
2024 - Graduate Student Presentations, Poetic Record (hosted by Deana Lawson), Princeton, NJ
2025 - Class Monitor to Lesley Martin, Yale University, CT
2024 - Teaching Assistant to Tommy Kha, Yale University, CT
2021 - 2023 - Assistant to Mira Nair, New York - New Delhi, IN
2020 - 2020 - Assistant to Bharat Sikka, New Delhi, IN
Vani Bhushan (b. 1998, New Delhi) is an Indian photojournalist based in New Haven, CT. Her work questions the limits of witnessing; she photographs landscapes shaped by protest and erasure in India. Her work lingers in the provisional: where looking is uncertain, where presence is always conditional. It traces the image as a site of discomfort; here, the photograph does not resolve—it hovers, marked by denial and delayed by desire.
Using photography and moving image, she considers what remains when visibility falters. To look, for her, is not passive. It is personal, and never without risk.
contact: vanibhushanstudio@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2025 - MFA Photography, Yale School of Art2020 - BDes, Textile Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, IN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - Jetzeit (Now-Time), Gladstone Gallery, New York2025 - First Breath Second Sight, Yale Gallery, New Haven, CT
2025 - CCAM Studio Fellowship Exhibition, New Haven, CT
2025 - GHAR, Khoj, New Delhi, IN
2024 - UPWARDS SPIRAL, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2023 - why do I always fall out of bed at night?, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2023 - Contemporary Women Photographers Exhibition - National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, IN
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2025 - John Ferguson Weir Award, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT2024 - Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2024 - CCAM Studio Fellowship, Yale University
ARTIST TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
2025 - Wesleyan University2025 - Video and Film Workshop, Yale University, CT
2025, 2024 - Yale University, CT
2024 - Graduate Student Presentations, Poetic Record (hosted by Deana Lawson), Princeton, NJ
WORK EXPERIENCE
2025 - ongoing - Lens Media Lab, Darkroom Printer, CT2025 - Class Monitor to Lesley Martin, Yale University, CT
2024 - Teaching Assistant to Tommy Kha, Yale University, CT
2021 - 2023 - Assistant to Mira Nair, New York - New Delhi, IN
2020 - 2020 - Assistant to Bharat Sikka, New Delhi, IN