Shivani Mithbaokar (she/her) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Her work constructs interior worlds and personal mythologies that combine symbolism to explore themes of the female agency, the body and the psychological states of healing and transformation using materiality. She received her BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in 2018 and holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the Pratt Institute. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation.
For current updates, please connect through instagram and for all inquiries, please email shivani.mithbaokar@gmail.com
SHOWS:
2025 it would hurt us - were we awake, Curated by Daniela Mayer, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York
2025 Inside Out, Pratt MFA Thesis Show, Curated by Dejá Belardo, Dock 72, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Melted City 5, Curated by Jordin Isip and Louie Cordero, Blanc Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2024 Now Recording, Studio In Factory Gallery, Queens, New York
2024 Pratt MFA Open Studios, Dock 72, Brooklyn, New York
2024 Riso Rama: Paradiso, Weil Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas
2023 Pratt MFA Open Studios, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Mid-Stride, South Hall, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2022 Part-Time Cat, Fluxus Chapel, Mumbai, India
2022 Zine Kya Hai?, Fluxus Chapel, Mumbai, India
2022 Play Zine Festival, Kanike Studios, Bangalore, India
2021 Bombay Underground Festival, Harkat Studios, Mumbai, India
2019 Small Works Art Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Soup Salon Show, 579 Fairview Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Peoples Choice Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Melted City 4, Curated by Jordin Isip and Louie Cordero, Yui Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Trapeze Salon Show, Trapeze Loft, 91 N1 St, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Parsons Illustration Senior Exhibition, 113 University Pl, NY
2018 Parsons Printmaking: We Didn’t Start The Fire, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
2018 MoCca Arts Festival, Metropolitan West, New York, NY
2016 Parsons Gala Exhibition, Tishman Auditorium, New York, NY
2016 Kerry Hall Exhibition, 65 5th Ave, New York, NY
2015 Wreath Interpretations, Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Parsons Pop Up Print Show, 2 W 13th St, New York, NY
2015 United Way Exhibition, Doane Hall, Granville, OH
2015 Symbiosis, MIX Gallery, Granville, OH
ARTIST TALK:
2024 Alumni Panel, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2019 Small Works Art Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
PUBLICATIONS:
2025 New American Paintings, Issue. 176 (North East), Selections by Laura Phipps, Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art
2025 HyperAllergic, Pratt’s MFA Exhibition Mirrors These Disjointive Times, Art Review by Daniel Larkin, May 2025
2025 Friend Of An Artist, Volume 21
2025 Art Seen Magazine, Summer 2025 Issue
2019 11x11 The New School Lang Literary Journal magazine, New York, NY
2018 Self-Published Artist Book, Collapse of Time and Mind, New York, NY (On Consignment at Printed Matter, New York)
2018 Self-Published Zine, 100 Drawings, New York, NY (On Consignment previously at Domino Books, Brooklyn)
2015 The Denison Magazine, Granville, OH