Krisha Tamrakar

Born in 1995 and based in Kathmandu, Nepal, this multidisciplinary artist works across painting, mixed media, installation, and artist books. A graduate of Kathmandu University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), she is also the Co-Director of Artudio, a leading center for contemporary art in Kathmandu, where she contributes to exhibitions, residencies, publications, and educational initiatives supporting artists and young learners.

Her practice is rooted in observation, memory, and emotional experience, with a sustained sensitivity toward silence, spatial nuance, and subtle shifts embedded in everyday life. Through slow, intuitive processes, material and form evolve in response to feeling rather than fixed representation. Urban ruins, domestic corners, overlooked objects, and traces of human presence frequently appear as quiet witnesses within her visual language, interwoven with inherited memories and unspoken emotional states.

The series Between Colors and Spaces reflects on environments suspended between past and present. These works examine emotional and visual dissonance within spaces shaped by both tradition and modern transformation. By observing, fragmenting, and reconstructing remembered places, the series evokes inner dualities that mirror social change. Layers of color and spatial tension suggest the fragility of memory and the coexistence of continuity and rupture, inviting viewers to reflect on their own shifting landscapes.

Her artist books extend this inquiry. Through wordless narratives, she explores subtle growth embedded within daily gestures, challenging the search for fulfillment in distant ambitions. These quiet visual sequences reveal beauty within stillness and propose that profound transformation often unfolds in overlooked moments.

Exhibited widely in Nepal and internationally—including Zurich, Singapore, South Korea, and major institutions in Kathmandu, her work has received recognition such as the NEBASAS Best Illustration Award (2025) and the Ugrachandi Saman Siropa (2026).