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Akshata Naik (born 1990 Mumbai, Maharashtra) is an internationally renowned painter art critic. She was Appointed as a DEAN at Faculty of Fine Arts, Parul University 2015-2016, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. she was awarded two Gold Medals in 2014 and Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda for his contribution to art. Currently she is working on social improvisation through public arts as her artistic practice in Toronto, Canada.

Contents

 * Early life
 * Career
 * Exhibitions
 * Publications
 * Bibliography
 * References
 * External links

Early life
Akshata was born in 1990 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He studied painting at Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda and De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. and Arts administration and cultural management in Humber College, Toronto, Canada

Career
Akshata Naik career in 2015 when she joined as a lecturer in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Parul University, Baroda.Her teaching positions have included teaching Painting in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Parul University, Baroda (from 2015) She has been a Artist in Residence at the De Montfort University, Leicester, UK in 2015, and invited to exhibit her recent works at the Artcore Gallery in UK. The exhibition Bloody Boats by Akshata Naik on view at the Artcore Gallery was very well received by the curators, art appreciators, academicians, art collectors along with the BBC News and Derby Telegraph Newspaper. Akshata has been a major figure in the world of emerging Indian artist.

Born in 1990 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Akshata adopted Baroda as her own city. She migrated to Baroda and started her education in Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 2008. Her upbringing in Mumbai has been in a middle class Saraswat brahmin family where her father was a Maharashtrian and kannadiga mother from Gokarna, Karnataka. She is influenced from both these cultures.There is a close tie-in between her time in Mumbai and migrating to baroda, as an act of mapping the regions, which gives to the speaking subject the possibility of addressing the world as her own". Recently Akshata had been working on the Bloody Boats series where she showcases the fragile life governed by violence and terrorism that world is facing in various countries, especially addressing the migrant issues in Syria.

Akshata lives with her designer-husband TK in Toronto, Canada

Exhibitions

 * Solo show ‘Bloody Boats by Akshata Naik’ organized by the Artcore England at the Artcore, Gallery, Derby, UK in 2016.
 * Participated in a three men show held at the Trinity Gallery, DMU, Leicester, UK in 2015
 * Solo show ‘A Piece of Peace’ organized by the Artcore England at the ICCA, Nottingham, UK in 2015.
 * Painting selected by Burland Art Galleries and put on display in Windsor Gallery, London in 2010.
 * Participated in a group show ‘BE’ held in the Gallery, FOFA, MSU, Baroda in 2012.
 * Participated in a site specific show held in the campus of FOFA, MSU, Baroda in 2013.
 * Participated in a group show ‘The emerging palettes’ at Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad in 2014.
 * Works featured in a group show, Baroda March 2015 at Coomarswamy Hall, Mumbai in 2015.
 * Works showcased in a group show at OED Gallery, Kochi in March 2015