Gopa Trivedi

(b. 1987, Lucknow, India)

Gopa Trivedi’s practice weaves the rhizomatic connections between her lived and intangible experiences—conversations, daily encounters, travels, and so on. This practice of constantly drawing parallels has brought forth a porosity in the borders between what is considered personal or individualistic and all that is culturally shared—be it visual, literary, or oral. Collective knowledge systems that take the form of histories, stories, myths, and fables then seem to blur the distinctions between “Us” and “Them.” Her visual vocabulary often refers to nature, domestic spaces, and mundane objects, in an attempt to capture the transient essence of things by incorporating the ubiquitous cyclical aspects of degeneration, transformation, and mutations through sequential images, repetition, and patterns. Coming from Lucknow (known for being one of the cultural hubs in India), literature has always been an integral part of her upbringing. Owing to this, her experiences and observations often manifest as visual counterparts to figures of speech—analogies, metaphors, puns, and so on—which then allow for something between ‘viewing’ and ‘reading’ of the works.

She earned her BFA in Painting (2010) and MFA with a specialization in Painting (2012) from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda. She was shortlisted for the Lepsien Foundation Emerging Artist Award in (2015) andin received the UMISSA Scholarship from S.A.F. India in (2013). Recent participations include ‘Land That Lives Through Us’ curated by Khushboo Jain at Art and Charlie, Mumbai (2025); solo show: ‘GULISTAN’ curated by Aaiushi Beniwal presented by Bhavna Kakar at LATITUDE 28 (2024); Art Mumbai with LATITUDE 28, Mumbai (2023); Art Dubai with LATITUDE 28, Dubai (2025, 2023 and 2022); Delhi Contemporary Art Week with LATITUDE 28, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2023 and 2022); India Art Fair with LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2025, 2023 and 2022); Art SG with LATITUDE 28, Singapore (2023); ‘Multitudes & Assemblages’ with LATITUDE 28, ‘Artissima (Hub India)’ curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Italy (2021); ‘Playhouse of Her Mind’, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2021); ‘Telling Tales: A journey into narrative forms’, Anant Art (2020); ‘Visions in the Making’ by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, Italian Embassy (2020); India Art Fair with Italian Embassy, New Delhi (2020).

The artist is represented by LATITUDE 28, New Delhi, India.