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Vani Bhushan (b. 1998, New Delhi) is an Indian photographer based in New Delhi, IN. 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
all enquires can be sent here
2020 - BDes in Textile Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, IN
2025 - Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT (upcoming)
2025 - Jetzeit (Now-Time), Gladstone Gallery, New York
2025 - First Breath Second Sight, Yale Gallery, New Haven, CT
2025 - CCAM Studio Fellowship Exhibition, New Haven, CT
2025 - GHAR, Khoj, New Delhi, IN
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 - Aperture: Introducing Series
2025 - Homegrown India
2025 - Musée Magazine
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 - 2021 - Assistant to Bharat Sikka, New Delhi, IN
Vani Bhushan (b. 1998, New Delhi) is an Indian photographer based in New Delhi, IN. 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
all enquires can be sent here
EDUCATION
2025 - Master of Fine Art in Photography, Yale School of Art, CT2020 - BDes in Textile Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, IN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 - In Plane View Of, Khoj Studios, New Delhi, IN2025 - Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT (upcoming)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - First Breath Second Sight, Webber Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (ongoing)2025 - Jetzeit (Now-Time), Gladstone Gallery, New York
2025 - First Breath Second Sight, Yale Gallery, New Haven, CT
2025 - CCAM Studio Fellowship Exhibition, New Haven, CT
2025 - GHAR, Khoj, New Delhi, IN
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
PUBLICATIONS
2025 - It’s Nice That, Ones To Watch, 20252025 - Aperture: Introducing Series
2025 - Homegrown India
2025 - Musée Magazine
WORK EXPERIENCE
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 - 2021 - Assistant to Bharat Sikka, New Delhi, IN