Vamika Jain (b. India) is an artist and designer working primarily with photography. She pursued Master of Design in Photography from National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar and completed her Bachelor of Architecture from School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal. As an exchange student, with a scholarship from the Goethe-Institut, she attended Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany in 2017. Her practice is an inquiry into environmental co-existence, places: non-places and intersection of popular culture with human aspirations.
Along with photography, Vamika works with text, found information, video and installation. With her work, she wishes to deconstruct the existing forms of visual representation. She also intends to make people inquisitive about their interaction with technology and more aware about their perception of natural and urban landscape. Vamika is the recipient of NID-MNF award for outstanding project rooted in social, cultural and political inquiries. In 2021, she has been awarded Experimenter’s Generator Grant and selected for a mentorship program and grant by the VII Academy and Pathshala South Asia Media Institute. She has received Space Studio Baroda’s Artist Grant, 2023 2023 and Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography in 2024.
jainvamika@gmail.com
Along with photography, Vamika works with text, found information, video and installation. With her work, she wishes to deconstruct the existing forms of visual representation. She also intends to make people inquisitive about their interaction with technology and more aware about their perception of natural and urban landscape. Vamika is the recipient of NID-MNF award for outstanding project rooted in social, cultural and political inquiries. In 2021, she has been awarded Experimenter’s Generator Grant and selected for a mentorship program and grant by the VII Academy and Pathshala South Asia Media Institute. She has received Space Studio Baroda’s Artist Grant, 2023 2023 and Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography in 2024.
jainvamika@gmail.com