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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


EDUCATION

2025 - MFA, Photography, Yale University (expected)

2020 - BDes, Textile Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, IN


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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 

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2025 - John Ferguson Weir Award, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2024 - Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
         2024 - CCAM Studio Fellowship, Yale University
 
ARTIST TALKS
           
          2025 - Storytelling and Community Well-Being Panel, Yale University, CT
         2024 - Graduate Student Presentations, Poetic Record, Princeton, NJ 
         2024 - Demystifying Research for Artists Panel, Yale University,  CT 

       
          2024 - Teacher’s Asst. to Tommy Kha, Yale School of Art
          2024 - Teacher’s Asst. to Neil Goldberg, Yale School of Art