Biography | Pooja Pawaskar

Artist & Sculptor

Pooja Pawaskar is an Indian-born Canadian artist based in Arles, France. Working across sculpture, ceramics, and drawing, her practice explores intimacy, visibility, and the emotional landscapes we carry within us.

Influenced by experiences of migration and living across cultures, Pawaskar creates abstract forms that investigate the relationship between body, memory, and identity. Through wood and clay, she explores themes of vulnerability, resilience, and transformation, often working within the space between concealment and revelation.

Pawaskar holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Mumbai University and a Master's degree in Furniture Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at NYCxDESIGN, the London Festival of Architecture, and DesignTO. In 2025, she completed an artist residency at SCAD Lacoste, France, and is currently based in Arles, where she continues to develop her sculptural practice.

Artist Statement

I am an Indian-born Canadian artist based in Arles, France, working primarily in sculpture, drawing, and ceramics.

My practice explores intimacy, visibility, and the emotional landscapes we carry within us. Shaped by experiences of migration and living across cultures, I am interested in how bodies hold memory, desire, vulnerability, and inherited ways of being.

Working through abstraction, I create forms that evoke the body without fully describing it. Whether carved in wood or shaped in clay, my sculptures inhabit the space between concealment and revelation, protection and exposure. I am drawn to gestures of covering, enclosing, and partially revealing, questioning what we choose to share, what we hide, and how these choices shape our relationships with ourselves and others.

Wood and ceramics offer distinct yet interconnected languages within my practice. Wood, with its knots, cracks, and grain, speaks to resilience and transformation. Clay allows me to explore softness, containment, and the body as vessel. Together, these materials become a means of investigating how personal and collective experiences are carried, remembered, and made visible.

Ultimately, my work invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences of becoming: how we learn to take up space, reveal ourselves, and belong.

CV

Pooja Pawaskar

b. 1990, Mumbai, India
Indian-born Canadian artist, living and working in Arles, France

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Education

2016
M.A. in Furniture Design, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, GA, U.S.A.

2012
Bachelor's in Architecture, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India

Exhibitions

2026

Soft Architecture, Group Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
Hydrologie, Group Exhibition, Arles, France

2025

Solo Exhibit in Lacoste, France. March to May 2025
The Shape I’m In, Group Exhibition, All Ours Studio & Art Vessel, DesignTO, Toronto, Canada
First Impressions, Group Exhibition, Cry Baby Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2024

Building Bridges, Group Exhibition, Axeneo7 Gallery, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Grounding, Group Show, Ki Smith Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
J2 Summer Show, Group Exhibition, J2 Gallery + Studio, Gananoque, Thousand Islands, Canada
Artist Project, Toronto, Canada
Conversations with Trees (with Lori Harrison), DesignTO, Toronto, Canada

2023