Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Aruni Dharmakirthi is a Sri Lankan born, artist, educator and meditation teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. Aruni's work explores personal mythology through quilted tapestries and soft sculpture. Content and form are stitched together into works that resemble collage.
Dharmakirthi received an MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2017. They have participated as an artist in residence at the Bric Workspace Residency (NY), Centrum Emerging Artist In Residence (WA), and Caldera PNCA MFA Residency (OR). They received an Equity Award by the American Craft Council to attend the Present: Tense 2019 conference in Philadelphia and the A4A production fund grant from Saskia Fernando gallery in Colombo, Sri Lanka.