Harshita Agarwal

Harshita Agarwal (b.2001) is a visual artist from India. Her site-based and mixed media artistic approach explores the relationship between humans and their environment at a point in space and time. She utilises methods like mark-making, image-making, mapping, and weaving to experiment on, explore, or archive the materiality of the land that are represented in her artworks.

Her works are influenced by ecological concerns. 1.330 N, 103.780 E, from 2022, is an installation that depicts Clementi Forest as an important yet delicate member of the natural environment in Singapore. On the Search, completed with artist Ji Hyun Kim with support of the WWF, is an outdoor painted sculpture of a tiger. Placed in Chinatown for Chinese New Year 2022, the sculpture depicts the Malayan tiger’s lost habitat.

Harshita Agarwal graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2021. She was chosen as an Temenggong Artists-In-Residence for the Tiger Trail Campaign 2022 organised by WWF Singapore, awarded the Winston Oh Travelogue Award in 2022, and recipient of the mentorship program UNDESCRIBED #8 by DECK in 2023.

Submitted by Dong Lee