Parul Bouvart (b. 1989, New Delhi, India) is globally active interdisciplinary artist whose practice is deeply engaged with ideas of intimacy, power, memory, and inherited social structures in the fields of video, performance, and installation work. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from New York: Pratt Institute, and a Bachelor’s in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayaji Rao University of Baroda, India. During graduate school, she won a Merit Academic Excellence Scholarship and was named the first Teaching Fellow at Franklin Furnace to be recognised for her contributions to experimental and socially engaged art practices.
Bouvart's work has appeared in international magazines, including Hyperallergic, Studio Visit Magazine, Art Reveal, Ubiquitous Art, and Suboart Magazines. Her art projects are acclaimed, and criticised, for emotionally touched, politically activist work and for her experimental use of performative and tactile materials. Over the past decade she has featured performances, installations, and video work in South Korea, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Australia, the United States, Argentina, and India, in events like the Venice Art Biennale, National Gallery of Modern Art in India, and Museum KOT-DEUNG in South Korea, as well as the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York, Salon des L’arts Plastiques in Paris, and Treehouse NDSM in Amsterdam.
Bouvart´s practice also interrogates patriarchy, memory, and power in intimate, embodied work and uses them to transform personal stories into feminist, socially engaged encounters. Her subjects have been vulnerability, resistance, and political agency. She currently lives and works in France.
INTERVIEWS/ TALKS
2024 The Art Docu Mentor Project, India
2020 Artist Talk at École des Beau-Arts, Beaune, France
2018 Art Reveal Magazine #42, Artist Interview
2017 StudioVisit Magazine #Volume38, Artist Interview, Boston, US
2018-17 Creativpaper Digital Magazine, Artist Interview
2017 Clamecy TV, Artist Interview, Clamecy, France
HONOURS, AWARDS/ GRANTS & ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
2023 ACT programme “Unspoken rules of the Art World”—(Identity, Authority, Success and Creating) London. UK
2023 ACT programme—Identity, fully sponsored by SÛ Collection, London. UK
2016 Master’s Degree in Fine Arts, New Forms, Pratt Institute, New York. US
2015 Franklin Furnace Fellowship in Art Education, New York. US
2013-15 Scholarship holder at PRATT Institute, New York. US
2012 Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts, Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts. M.S University of Vadodara, Gujarat, INDIA
SHOWS/ EXHIBITIONS
2025 RAQs media collection, Sirendipity Arts Festival, Goa. India
Alchemy, Cherry Knots, Chicago, US
SoFA’s A Very Big Giant Party, Brisbane. Australia
Insterantional Story, Museum KOT- DEUNG Contemporary, Republique of Korea
2024 Croire ou Savoir Les Salon des l’arts Plastiques, Paris. Ile de France. France
Sensory Dialogues through TOUCH, Tree House NDSM, Amsterdam. Netherland.
100 Yilda Kadin Sergi (Woman in 100 years) International Group Exhibition. Istanbul, Turkey
Pale Space Gallery, Virtual Exhibition, New York. US
INPA Venice Biennale (Foreign Bodies Everywhere), Venice, Italy.
International Story, Museum KOT-DEUNG, Republic of Korea
Fringe Arts Bath Visual Arts Festival, UK
2023 International Recycling Story Museum KOT-DEUNG, Republic of Korea.
Performance at Kaliwungu Art Performance Festival, Center Java, Indonesia.
National Gallery of Modern Art, NGMA, New Delhi, India
2021 International Recycling Story, Gangneung Art Center, Republic of Korea.
2018 31st Festival Les Instants video, Humains de tous le pays: Caressez-Vous, France
'Egosophy', at Contemporary Art Observatorium, Lavagna, Italy.
Metamorphosis curated by Dafna Rehavia and Taya, Percolate Gallery, Pittsburg, US
PyeongChang ARTccc, Gangneung Art Center, Republic of Korea.
Politico Pop Up Show 3rd, New Orleans, LA, US
Fringe Arts Bath Visual Arts Festival, 44AD Gallery, UK
2017 "Bon Voyage" at Peoples Choice Salon Show at Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn
“Remember Me? Big Mistake.” Elizabeth Foundation of Arts. New York, US
Faculty Art Show, Abrons Art Center. Lower Manhattan. New York. US
2016 Lights of Interiors, Art Therapy Project at Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
2015 By Sara Reisman, at the Boiler Room: Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US
Curated by Kat Griefen, Brooklyn, New York, US
2014 Back Pack Gallery at (e)merge Art Festival, Washington DC. US
Back Pack Gallery at Dumbo Art Festival, New York. US
Dekalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York. US
Group Show at Brooklyn Community Pride Center, New York. US
MORPHOS Sustainable Empires, International festival in Venice. ITALY
Galeria de Arte Laura Haber (Juncal) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2013 Stuben Hall Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. US
Women’s Vision-2013, group show at Green mark Art Gallery, New Delhi. INDIA
“A room for COCK-TALE” group show at NIV Studio, New Delhi.
At Devi Art Foundation, Sarai Readers:09: The Exhibition: Art As A Place, New Delhi. INDIA
2012 5th Annual All India Women Artist Art Exhibition, New Delhi. INDIA
Group show at Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition Hall, Vadodara, Gujarat. INDIA
2011 Group show at Contemporary art gallery, Ahmadabad, Gujarat. INDIA
HONOURS, AWARDS/ GRANTS & ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
2023 ACT programme “Unspoken rules of the Art World”—(Identity, Authority, Success and Creating) London. UK
2023 ACT programme—Identity, fully sponsored by SÛ Collection, London. UK
2016 Master’s Degree in Fine Arts, New Forms, Pratt Institute, New York. US
2015 Franklin Furnace Fellowship in Art Education, New York. US
2013-15 Scholarship holder at PRATT Institute, New York. US
2012 Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts, Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts. M.S University of Vadodara, Gujarat, INDIA