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I am an illustrator, educator, cartoonist and reportage artist born and raised in India and based in Boston.
Through autobiographical comics, visual essays, drawings on location, gouache paintings and illustrated interviews my work strives to capture and communicate instances of emotional connection, queer immigrant culture and conversations people have over meals.
Get in touch if you'd like make something together!
Follow me on Instagram : @TheJackfruitSlayer
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SELECTED CLIENTS
Spotify X Acrylicize
Ole & Steen
Simply Gum
D & AD X Accenture
D&AD White Pencil Labs X HP Indigo
The New Yorker Magazine
McElroy Family Podcasts
Loews Hotel & Co
Next Street
The Wilderness Society
Food and Wine Magazine
Clos du Bois X Foundry Creative Lab
PR Council
Committee for Children
Cambridge Public Health Commission
JinglePunks X Anthem Entertainment X iHeart Radio
Madame Poupon (Creperie)
Uber India
Gaysi
Pratham Books
Rendez-vous Carnet Du Voyage, France
Aval Cider
Institute of Psychiatric Health, Mumbai
Table Talk
Indiranagar Social
Wooll Band
COMICS FAIRS
Upcoming-
MoCCA Arts Festival 2018 -- 2025
Comic Arts Maine Portland Festival 2025
Past-
Small Press Expo 2024
Miss Read: Berlin Art Book Fair 2024
Philly Comics Expo (PCX) 2024
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo 2024
Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2018, 2024
Vancouver Comic Arts Festival 2019, 2024
RISD Unbound 2023, 2024
Small press Expo 2024
Short Run Seattle 2023
Queer Trans Zine Fair 2023
Boston Book Arts Fair 2022, 2023
Pictobeach Bazaar 2023
Philly Comics Expo (PCX) 2022
Rendez-vous Carnet Du Voyage
(A Travel Illustration Festival in France) 2018, 2019
Pittsburgh Zine Fest (PZF) 2019
NY Independent Art Book Fair 2019
Comic Arts Brooklyn 2018
Women That Rock 2018
Optikal Asylum (Mumbai) 2020
STORES AND /LIBRARIES
Silver Sprocket, San Francisco
Printed Matter NY
The Beguiling, Toronto
Renate Comics, Berlin
Desert Island Comics, Brooklyn
Push/Pull, Seattle
Domino Books (Wholesale Distributor)
Radiator Comics (Wholesale Distributor)
Partners And Son, Philadelphia
Red Emma's, Baltimore
Stoop Shop Comics, Baltimore
Fantom Comics, DC
Big Planet Comics, DC
Library of Congress
RISD Fleet Library (Zine Collection)
University of the Arts, Library (Comics Collection)
Frick Fine Arts Library (Zine Collection)
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University
COMICS READINGS
Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations 2024
Crucial Comix Workshop- Drawing Family Stories 2024
Sequential Artists Workshop 2024
Queer Trans Zine Fair 2023
Carousel Comics Reading 2020, 2022, 2023
Pao Arts Center, Boston 2023
Panels To The People 2019
EDUCATION
Parsons School of Design
B.F.A in Illustration 2019,
Dean’s List Scholarship Awardee 2015-2019
Graduated with Departmental Honors
School of Visual Arts
M.F.A in Illustration 2021,
Merit Scholarship Awardee 2019, 2020
LANGUAGES
English, Hindi, Marathi
PUBLICATIONS
The New Yorker: Culture Desk
The New Yorker: Daily Shouts
The Nation: Opp Art
Food & Spectacle Magazine
Paper Planes
Fruition Magazine
Spring 2022: Cake Zine Vol 1
VICE
12th Street Journal Art
12th Street Journal Fiction
Hollywood Life
Subnivean Issue 9
Subnivean Issue 10
The Gullet
Smoke Signal 2018 : The Coney Island Issue
Beholder Magazine Issues 1 and 2
Chill Mag: Issue 2
Chill Mag: Issue 0
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS:
Gallery 263, Cambridge 2024
Urbanica Gallery, Boston 2024
Field Arts Gallery, NYC 2024
Providence Public Library 2024
Museum of Fine Arts Boston 2023
'Eat At Your Own Risk' at Out of Box Gallery, Jamestown 2023
Pao Arts Center, Boston 2023
Jersey City City Hall 2021, 2022
SVA Gramercy Gallery 2021
Space Gallery, Portland 2021
Zanbeel Art Gallery: Mapping Out A Field 2021
Push Pull Solo Show 2019
Secrets Risograph show (Hamburg, NYC) 2019
School of Visual Arts Book Show 2019
12th Street Journal 2018
OCD Chocolate 2019
Smush Gallery 2018
Parsons Gala 2017, 2018, 2019
PRESS
PRINT Mag: Graphic Design
PRINT Magazine: The Daily Heller
American Illustration 38
American Illustration 41
Boston Art Review
Boston Globe
Creative Boom
Seattle Times
The Comics Beat
TCAF Digital Showcase
Paper Planes Magazine (Interview)
Speciwomen Magazine (Interview)
True North Country Comics Podcast (Interview)
Vagabomb
Rendez-vous Carnet Du Voyage
AWARDS
Comics-
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo Grant 2024
Comics Advocacy Group Grant 2024
Center for Cartoon Studies BIPOC Scholarship 2024
ADC Young Ones Portfolio Award 2021
D&AD New Blood Portfolio Award 2021
Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement in Master's Program 2021
Short Run Seattle's Katie Kelso Travel Grant 2023
MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence 2021
SVA Alumni Scholarship Award 2020
Nominated for Will Eisner Scholarship 2018
Parsons Sketchbook Contest 2016
Parsons Portfolio Contest 2016
Writing-
Pushcart Prize Nominee for Fiction 2023
Subnivean Poetry Award Finalist 2023-2024
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