Shweta Rao Garg is an artist, writer, and academic based in Baltimore.
She has a Master’s in English from JNU, New Delhi and PhD from IIT Roorkee in India. She was awarded the Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
As a poet, she explores life and its inexplicable quandaries. Her book of poems, Of Goddesses and Women (Sahitya Akademi, 2021), is about women, both ordinary and divine. Her graphic novel, The Tales from Campus: A Misguide to College (Crossed Arrows, 2022), aims to sensitize students through narratives that explore various societal issues. She is the co-editor of The English Paradigm in India: Essays on Language, Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2017).
Shweta perceives her art as a culmination of her creative and critical faculties. The questions of identity, space, history and ordinary lives inform her works. Her standpoint as a feminist and as a gender studies scholar shapes her subject matter and forms. Her first solo exhibition of paintings, “The Bard in Acrylic”, was inspired by the works of William Shakespeare and was held in December 2018. Her second solo exhibition of paintings called “Of Goddesses and Women”, which was about the everyday lives of urban Indian women, was held in December 2019. She organized “SWAAS: An Art Intervention on Loss, Hope and Gratitude” in March 2022. It was a public art intervention that got the community to share their experiences during the pandemic.
She has a Master’s in English from JNU, New Delhi and PhD from IIT Roorkee in India. She was awarded the Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
As a poet, she explores life and its inexplicable quandaries. Her book of poems, Of Goddesses and Women (Sahitya Akademi, 2021), is about women, both ordinary and divine. Her graphic novel, The Tales from Campus: A Misguide to College (Crossed Arrows, 2022), aims to sensitize students through narratives that explore various societal issues. She is the co-editor of The English Paradigm in India: Essays on Language, Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2017).
Shweta perceives her art as a culmination of her creative and critical faculties. The questions of identity, space, history and ordinary lives inform her works. Her standpoint as a feminist and as a gender studies scholar shapes her subject matter and forms. Her first solo exhibition of paintings, “The Bard in Acrylic”, was inspired by the works of William Shakespeare and was held in December 2018. Her second solo exhibition of paintings called “Of Goddesses and Women”, which was about the everyday lives of urban Indian women, was held in December 2019. She organized “SWAAS: An Art Intervention on Loss, Hope and Gratitude” in March 2022. It was a public art intervention that got the community to share their experiences during the pandemic.
My Blog
Your Face in the Mirror: The Great Indian Kitchen
Dear Men Please don’t watch The Great Indian Kitchen. I, for once, can’t understand the hype behind the film – The Great Indian Kitc
24 January, 2021
