Ankit Ravani  |   C . V

​Hometown: Mumbai
Work and Residence: Delhi
ankitravani2021@gmail.com

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Personal Details
Name: Ankit Ravani
Date of Birth: March 08, 1992
Nationality: Indian

Education

• 2016-18  Masters in Fine Arts School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida

• 2012-16  Bachelors in Visual Arts- Maharaja Sayajirao University Baroda, Gujarat

• 2010-12  Bachelor’s in fine arts - Textile Design, Sir J.J School Of Arts, Mumbai

• 2008-10  Humanities, Jai Hind College, Mumbai

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Awards and Residencies

• Vila Sul residency in Salvador, Brazil - nomination via Goethe Institut New Delhi, 2026

• IFA Arts Explorations grant, 2024

• Incubator residency hosted by Gargi Raina, Baroda, 2023

• Seed Grant by Goethe Institut and Katkatha for the Puppet Fringe Festival, 2023

• Puppet Incubation Lab by Katkatha supported by Goethe Institut, Delhi, 2023

• Inlaks Fine Arts Award, 2022

• Inlaks residency, 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore, 2022

• Nominated for the Amol Vadehra Art Grant, 2022
   

Exhibitions and Participation

• Exhibited at To-gather at the South Asian Playground, Mool, New Delhi, 2025

• Exhibited at the Book Show at Melbourne Liquid Architectures, School of environment and architecture 2025, and BLR alt fest Bangalore, Shiv Nadar University, FICA reading room, Home Studio, Bhogal, Delhi, 2024

• Open Studio for Inlaks FAA awardees, 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore, 2022

• The Flying Goat Show, Goa, 2022

• A State of Mind, group exhibit, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai 2021

• Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds (VMIS), 2020

• Ars Moriendi, online group exhibit, Astanzi, 2020

• Restricted Fixations, a zine anthology, second edition, 2020

• Propositions #3:  Amongst many ruins: pursuing Locations and Practices, online module led by Rakhi Peswani with Reliable Copy, 2020

• Call to Disorder, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, 2019

• Corpus, Image, and Inextricability – group exhibit, Art Konsult, New Delhi, 2019

• Perceiving Futility – group exhibit, Baroda, 2018

• The Storytellers- a course exploring zines, comics and video, Foundation For Indian Contemporary Arts (FICA) and The Serendipity Arts foundation, New Delhi, 2018

•  Art- Poetry: Dialogues of Last Innocences in the interpretation by Tushar Joag at Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi, 2018

• MFA Display 2018, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Greater Noida, 2018

• Dumas Art Project, Surat, 2016

• CIMA, Kolkata, India, 2016

• Preview, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India, 2016

• Intercontinental Biennial of small graphics AIUD/ Romania, 2014

• Pre-Summit Exhibition, Kanoria centre for Arts, 2014
   

Puppetry:

• Zig Zags to Earth performed at the XIII International Puppet Theatre Festival named after Sergei Obraztso, Moscow, 2025

• Zig Zags to Earth: Performance and workshop at the KNMA Community Library Project at Sikandarpur Library, 2025

• Attended a Residential workshop on Thogalu Gombayetta  tradition of leather shadow puppetry by Gundu Raju in Hassan, Karnataka organized by Katkatha and UNIMA, 2025

• Illustrator, design team, and performer and for ‘The enchanted walk’ by Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust for KNMA theatre Festival, at Sundar Nursery, 2024

• Designed the look and painted Giant puppets for International Solar Festival Delhi, for Puppetshala, Delhi, 2024

• Performed Zig Zags to Earth and Saau for Alt fest, Bangalore and Delhi, 2024

• Designed and Performed Saau at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, Delhi, 2024

• ‘Zig Zags To Earth’ selected for ready productions at the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, 2024

• ‘Zig Zags to Earth’ part of the Water and sanitization awareness programme at Panna, Sundara, and Chhatarpur in M.P.  with Katkatha, commissioned by WASH, Germany, 2024.

• ‘Zig Zags to Earth’ performed at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC), Mumbai, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Saket and Noida, Puppet Fringe Festival at Goethe Institut, Delhi, 2023.

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Work

Education field:

• Visiting Faculty for final year Painting students, Sushant University, 2025

• Workshop ‘Chehre me Kya Rakha hai’ on mask making and performance for the Mehrauli community library, community library project, KNMA 2025

• Training teachers of The Heritage Rohini school in shadow puppetry for drama therapy sessions by Vikramjeet Sinha, 2025

• Lecture and Workshop on Character design process and Shadow Puppetry at Vidyashilp University, Bangalore, 2025

• Artist Talk at Chitra Kala Parishat, 2025

• Shadow Puppetry workshop for the students at Shiv Nadar School Faridabad with V Aarti, 2024

• Experimental Shadow Puppet workshop for the members at TIE at NSD, Delhi with V
  Aarti, 2024

• Mooli Lahad technique and Shadow puppet workshop at Heritage Xperiential Learning School, Gurugram for Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust, 2024

• Art, and shadow puppet workshops for the children of Khirkee village, at Khoj, New Delhi along with V Aarti, 2024

• Co-led the Observation Drawing Module for Foundation students at NID Haryana, 2023

• Artist Talk, at NID Haryana, 2023

• CIE Art Educator for Middle and High school, Head Start Educational Academy, Bangalore, 2019 - 23

• Designed and led the workshop Methodologies of art making, and thinking through Finding in collaboration with Murli Dhar for Kochi Student Biennale, 2021

• Researcher/ Writer - Developing art workbook curriculum with Art1st 2018- 2019
   

Illustration:

• Illustration, design team and concept building for the Enchanted Walk at Sundar Nursery with Katkatha, organized by KNMA.

• Illustrated Botanical drawings for an ongoing book by Suresh Jayaram, Bangalore, 2019

• Illustrator, with Art1st and Little Light, Mumbai 2018

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