Statement

My work investigates the body as both a physical form and a quiet archive. The body becomes witness and residue, holding what is spoken and what remains withheld. I make drawings, installations, performances, videos, and other media to examine how personal histories, inherited memories, rituals, and shared experiences shape identity and the places people call home.

Rooted in my experiences across Nepal, India, and the United States, my work moves through displacement, fissure, duality, and return. The notion of home is not a fixed place, but something remembered, remade, and carried within the body. In my work, materials carry embedded histories and memories as much as physical qualities. My work resists a single reading, encouraging viewers to encounter their own memories of place, separation, and belonging.

About

A visual artist and educator based in Texas. He earned MFA degrees from Bangalore University in India and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Working across drawing, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, and video, Shrestha explores how the body carries memory, how home is remembered and remade, and how identity takes shape between cultures.