Teja Gavankar (b.1986) received her BFA from L.S. Raheja School of Art, Bandra, Mumbai and MVA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda. Teja had her first international solo show, Other’s Spaces at Optica Center for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada in 2017. She has been part of residencies at Khoj International Artist Association (New Delhi), What About Art (Mumbai), Space Studio (Vadodara), Verticale Artist Center (Laval, Canada) and Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation supported International (India-Quebec) Residency at the Darling Foundry (Montreal, Canada). She has been part of several group shows such as All is not lost 20:20:20, curated by Saloni Doshi, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2020; Hindsight 20/20, Gallery Ark, Vadodara, 2020; When is Space, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, 2018; Navigation is Offline, Bhubaneswar Art Trail, Odisha, 2018; Young Subcontinent, Serendipity Arts Festival, 2016. Teja’s work was also featured as a part of Case Design’s presentation at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018. Teja is a recipient of Space 118 Contemporary Residences Artists Award (2020). She lives and works in Mumbai.