Education
2023 MFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 MA Cultural Studies, University of Washington Bothell (UWB), WA
2014 BA Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, University of Washington, WA
2020 Coursework in Painting and Drawing, San Mateo Community College, San Mateo, CA
1991 Diploma in Fashion Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India
2025 Certificate in AI and Design Thinking
Exhibition Record
2026 Thresholds of Memory, Miro Gallery, San Jose, CA (org. by Montalvo Art Center’s Lucas Artists
Program and curated by Judy Dennis)
2026 Spirit House, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO (upcoming)
2025 Spirit House, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (curated by Nina Bozicnik,
Senior Curator, Henry Art Gallery), UW, Seattle
2025 Institute of Contemporary Art Annual Auction, San Jose, CA
2025 Saari Baat, Lindsay Dirkx Art Gallery San Ramon, CA
2025 Reframing The Margins, Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto, CA
2025 The Art of Fashion, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2025 Karl, Levi Plaza, San Francisco, CA
2025 Flourish, Four One Nine, San Francisco, CA
2025 The Archaeology of Being, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
(Curated by Padma Maitland, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco) Solo
2024 Spirit House, The Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA (curated by Aleesa P.
Alexander, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and
Contemporary Art and Co-director of the Asian American Art Initiative at the Cantor Arts
Center, with Kathryn Cua, curatorial assistant for the Asian American Art Initiative)(catalog)
2024 PLACE: Reckonings by Asian American Artists, ICA, San Jose, CA (curated by Zoe
Latzer, Associate Curator, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
and Judy Dennis, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga CA
2024 Southern Exposure Auction, San Francisco, CA
2024 48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2024 Private Exhibition, Apple Museum, Cupertino, CA
2023 Untitled Art Fair, Miami
2023 Introductions 2023, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (Jurors: Jonathan Carver Moore, Naz
Cuguoglu, PJ Pilicarpio)
2023 Social Memory: Sites of Remembrance, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Blackburn 20/20
Gallery, New York. (Curated by South Asian Women’s Creative Collective and Shilpi
Chandra)
2023 Architecture in Contemporary Art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana,
CA (Jurors: Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena of Escher GuneWardena Architecture).
2022 Balancing Act, Dogpatch Studios, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2022 you can hear the wind from beneath the floorboards, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
(Curated by Katherine Jemima Hamilton, curator, writer and
Shaelyn Hanes, curator, writer, educator, San Francisco, CA) (catalog)
2022 A selection of oil paintings, Redwood City Library, Redwood City, CA
2022 Open Circle, Lindsay Dirkx Brown Art Gallery, San Ramon, CA (curated by San
Ramon based curator, writer and educator, Pallavi Sharma)
2022 Fluid Mutualism, California College of The Arts, San Francisco, CA (Juried)
2021 Personal Histories, Hubbell St. Galleries, San Francisco, CA (curated by Zoe Latzer,
Associate Curator, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA)
2021 Approximations, Hubbell St. Galleries, San Francisco, CA (curated by
Lauren Sorresso, Curator, San Francisco, CA)
2021 Composing The Future II, DiNapoli Gallery, San Jose, CA (Juror: Karen Gutfreund,
Independent Curator, and Carolina Quintanilla, Curator, SOMarts, San Francisco,
CA) (catalog)
2021 The Blue Sari Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA
2021 Composing The Future, Bankhead Theater, Livermore, CA (Jurors: Elizabeth Addison,
artist, educator, curator, NCWCA Exhibitions Chair, CA, Anne Giancola, artist,
muralist, Visual Arts Manager, Livermore Arts, Marianne McGrath, Art historian,
Curator, Art Consultant, Owner, MKM Art Consulting, Los Gatos, CA) (catalog)
2020 Re-Imagining Our Footprint, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA
2020 Expressions 2020, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA (Juror: Andrea Schwartz,
President, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA)
2019 Architecture and Drawing, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA (Jurors: Michael
Azgour, artist, Bay Area, CA, and Robert Dvorak, artist, instructor, Bay Area, CA
2019 San Carlos Chamber of Commerce, San Carlos, CA
2018 Anniversary Show, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA (Juror: Elise DeMarzo,
Director, Public Art Programs, City of Palo Alto, CA)
2016 Imagining America Conference Brochure
2016 Featured Artist, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA
2015 University of Washington Seattle, WA
2015 Seattle Print Arts, Seattle, WA
2014 Threaded Protests, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2014 Trees of Life University Friends Meeting, Seattle, WA
2014 The Seventeenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA
2014 Rug Commissions Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
Awards and Fellowships
2023 Lucas Artist Fellow 2023, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2021 Departmental Scholarship, Graduate Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San
Francisco, CA
2012 Martin Hinckley Scholarship Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2011 Merit Award 2-D Design, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA
Selected Bibliography / Press
Claypool, L. “Namita Paul’s Testimony (2023).” Staring at the Ceiling, December 30, 2025.
Wilson, Emily. “‘Spirit House’ Negotiates Generational Worlds to Transcend Linear Time.” 48 Hills, January 22, 2025.
Paik, Alex. “Spirit House Manifests the Ghosts of Asian-American History.” Hyperallergic, September 2024.
Alexander, Aleesa Pitchamarn, ed. Spirit House: Hauntings in Contemporary Art of the Asian Diaspora. Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, 2024.
Singh, Gary. “Racist’s Reckoning: Montalvo and ICA Confront the Past.” Metro Silicon Valley, May 2024.
Pizarro, Sal. “Montalvo Arts Center, ICA Collaborate on Must-See Show in San Jose.” The Mercury News, March 28, 2024.
“Conversations with Namita Paul.” Voyage LA, January 11, 2023.
Women’s Caucus for Art. “Featured Artist of the Month.” January 2023.
Dhage, Vrushali. “Creative Expression Through Multiple Media.” India Currents, November 30, 2022.
Hanes, Shaelyn, and Katherine Hamilton. you can hear the wind from beneath the floorboards. Exhibition catalog, 2022.
Fung, Gordon. “Transcending Symbiosis Through Arts: An Exhibition at the Fluid Mutualism Symposium.” Rewind Review Respond, no. 4, Spring 2022.
“Meet Namita Paul, Visual Artist.” Shoutout LA, September 16, 2021.
Addison, Elizabeth, and Laura Abrams. Composing The Future II. Northern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalog.
Addison, Elizabeth, and Laura Abrams. Composing The Future. Northern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalog.
American Kahani. Exhibition announcement with photograph, July 1, 2021.
“Unyielding.” United We Quilt, 2019.
“Namita Paul Exhibits Unyielding at UW Bothell.” IAS News, April 20, 2016.
Espie, Sandrine. “Namita Paul, Muses Board of Directors, is Presenting Her Artwork at the Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium.” Seattle Muses Blog, May 18, 2014.