
Devi Seetharam is an artist from Kerala, currently based in Bangalore, India.
She completed her BFA in Painting at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, in 2011.
Her transient upbringing informs her practice, having lived in China, Cambodia, South Africa, India, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Mauritius, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia before returning to India in 2021.
Her work is shaped by histories, geographies, and the social fabric of diverse societies, revealing subtleties and harmonies within cultures that transcend borders. These influences inform a visual language that pairs meticulous process with thematic inquiry, uncovering quiet tensions, memories, and negotiations embedded within spaces. Her paintings invite viewers to read space as both physical and cultural terrain.
Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, she employs a process of reductive mark-making; systematically paring back layers to build grain, texture, and form, creating surfaces of material and psychological depth.
Her current body of work, Brothers, Fathers and Uncles, was most notably exhibited at the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2022–2023) and is held in private and institutional collections.