Shilo Shiv Suleman is an award winning Indian artist. Suleman’s practice lives and breathes at the intersection of Magical Realism, Art, Nature, Culture, Technology, Feminine Energy, and Social Justice. Her work is unapologetically abundant, weaving together the sensual and sacred, past and future- through paintings, wearable sculptures, interactive installations, and public art interventions. Her practice is an extension of the diverse embodiment and sensuality of pre-colonial India- sometimes reclaimed (and sometimes imagined) but deeply rooted in ceremony, ritual, and earth magic.
She is the founder and creative director of the Fearless – a movement in replacing fear with love in public space. Suleman works out of her studio, which is located in the 17th century Hawa Mahal complex in the heart of Jaipur. In 2023, Suleman was the recipient of a 3 million dollar grant from the Waverly Street Foundation to create public art and develop the Fearless Foundation- an institution of political art across borders. As of today, Fearless has created over 40 public monuments in 16 countries, working with communities most invisible or marginalized – including Muslim and Dalit women in India, Indigenous communities in Brazil and North America, communities affected by gang violence in Pakistan, Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and queer communities in Tunisia and Indonesia
Suleman has exhibited her work at the Southbank Centre in London and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to name a few. In 2024, she became the first ever Indian artist to exhibit at the pyramids of Giza for Art D’Egypte. In 2022, her installation Grove was acquired by Google for their HQ at Palo Alto, California. Sotheby’s New York auctioned her work Temple in their 2021 show ‘Boundless Time’. Suleman was also the recipient of the Burning Man Honorarium grant in 2014 and 2016, respectively. In addition to the Google acquisition, Suleman’s work has also been acquired by prestigious foundations such as the Faizal and Shabana Foundation as well as in personal collections, like that of Indian designer Sandeep Khosla.
Artist CV
Practising Artist | 2007-Present
Paintings/Sculptures/Interactive Installations/New Media Narratives
Past life – Children’s books + Illustrations
Fearless Foundation for the Arts (Formerly known as Fearless Collective) | 2012-Present
President & Creative Director
Education
Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore | 2006-2011
Major: Animation and Visual Effects – GPA 3.9 (Award of Commendation.)
Thesis: Interactive Narratives for Children
Valedictorian of the batch of 2011
Group Exhibitions
2026
Inheritances of Light, Geographies of Loss – Curated by Myna Mukherjee, Travancore Palace, New Delhi, India
2025
Art Mumbai, Art Musings, Mumbai, India
Intimacies, The Art of Hosting | Nilaya Anthology, Mumbai, India
Dhwani, Durga Puja Pandals, Kolkata, India
Resonance, Art Musings, Mumbai, India
2024
Art Mumbai, Art Musings, Mumbai, India
Garden; Forest; Meadow, Art Musings, Mumbai, India
God is a Woman in Love, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
2023
Melt, Art Musings, Mumbai, India
India Art Fair, Art Musings, New Delhi, India
2022
India Art Fair, Art Musings, New Delhi, India
2019
Pilgrims in Space, Time, Identity, Art Musings, Mumbai, India
2018
The 20th, Art Musings, Mumbai, India
India Art Fair, Art Musings, New Delhi, India
Special Projects
2025
Dhwani, in collaboration with Colleena Shakti, Snowball Studios, Mumbai, India as part of ‘The Walker’s List’, an initiative taken by Johnny Walker
2024
Padma, Arte D’Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
Shankha, Jaipur Art Week
The Magician, auctioned at AstaGuru
Eden Everlasting, India Art and Architecture Biennale, New Delhi
2023
Shankha, Architectural Digest, Jio World Centre, Mumbai, India
2022
Temple, auctioned at Sotheby’s New York for 57,000 USD
2021
Grove, Google HQ, Palo Alto, California, USA
2018
Grove, SOMA Arts Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Solstice, India Art Fair, New Delhi, INDIA
2017
(boy you make me) Overflow, Sassoon Art Project, India
Pulse and Bloom, NEXTNOWfestival Maryland, USA
Sentient, FACEBOOK Artist in Residency Programme, India
Honey, WeWork Artist in Residency Programme, India
Tidal, Three Rivers Festival, Pittsburgh, USA
2016
Pulse & Bloom, Adobe Max , San Diego USA
Grove, Burning Man Honorarium Art Grant, USA
Recollective , Curation and Residency, India
2015
Pulse & Bloom, South Bank Center, London, UK
2014
Pulse & Bloom, Burning Man Honorarium Grant, Burning Man, Nevada, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Reincarnate: We Meet Here in the Afterlife, Art Musings, Mumbai, India
2015
Beloved, Art Musings, Mumbai, India
