EDUCATION
M.F.A – Painting, The American University, Washington DC, Full Scholarship
B.A. – Art History, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Full Scholarship
B.A. – English major, French minor, University of Bombay, India

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE
2024 – Juror, Van Landingham Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2022 – Gallery Representation, Atrium Art Gallery, Charleston, SC
2022 – Exhibition and guest lecturer at St. Alban’s School Washington, D.C.
2022 – Guest lecturer at Western Michigan State University
2021 – Virginia Center for the Creative Arts – Residency, Amherst, VA
2020 – Juror, Capitol Hill Art League, Washington, D.C.
2018 – Curator, Washington Abstract Artist Group Exhibition, Friendship Heights, MD
2017 – Virginia Center for the Creative Arts – Residency, Amherst, VA
2016 – Visiting Faculty, Mumbai International School, Mumbai, India
2009 – Juror, Capitol Hill Art League, Washington, D.C.
2008 – Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, India, invited lecturer on Appreciating Abstract Art
2006 – Present, Faculty – Smithsonian Associates, Washington, D.C.
2002 – Present, Faculty – The Art League, Alexandria, VA

SOLO  EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Cross Pollination, Fred Schnider Gallery, Arlington, VA
2022 – Seeking the Light, District Arts Gallery, Frederick, MD
2011 – Esperanza Education Fund Exhibit, Washington, D.C.
2010 – Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi, India
2005 – Greater Reston Art Center, Reston, VA
2005 – The Pierce School, Washington, D.C.
2003 – Heritage India Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2002 – Growth, The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2000 – The Art League, Alexandria, VA

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 – Intention, Invention,  McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2011 – Gallery Plan b, Washington, D.C.
2009 – Capital One, The Corporate Art Program, McLean, VA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 – Mixed Blessing, Rodney Woodland and John Reaves, Curators, Delaware Contemporary Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2024 – Faculty Show, The Art League, Alexandria, VA
2024 – Studio Visit by the Washington Print Club
2024 – Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Collectors’ Night Benefit Auction, Washington, D.C.
2024 – Hickok Cole Art Night, Washington, D.C.
2024 – Transcendence, Transformer’s 20th Annual Auction Exhibition & Benefit Gala, American University’s Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
2024 – 10th Anniversary Artist Exhibition, St. Alban’s Artists Network, Washington, D.C.
2024 – Mid-Atlantic New Painting 2024, Juror Heather Hakikmzadeh (Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach), University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA
2024 – Member Show, Women’s Caucus for Art DC (WCADC), Washington, D.C.
2023 – (Not) Strictly Painting, Tim Brown, Director, IA&A at Hillyer Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2023 – Teeny Tiny Trifecta, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2022 – Surface, National Exhibition, The d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
2022 – Patron Show, The Art League, Alexandria, VA, Faculty Award
2022 – Scene, National Exhibition, The d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
2022 – Flourish, National Exhibition, The d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
2021 – Optimism, The Atheneum, Alexandria, VA
2021 – Virginia Artists Juried Exhibition, The Charles H. Taylor Visual Arts Center, Hampton, VA, Juror’s Award
2021 – Not Strictly Painting, Virginia Treanor, Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts, McLean Project for the Arts
2021 – Artist Invitational, Friendship Heights Community Center Art Gallery, MD
2021 – Teeny Tiny Trifecta, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2021 – Contemporary Indian Art, Gallery Art Motif 25^th Anniversary Exhibit, New Delhi, India
2021 – Garden Party, Latela Curatorial, Washington, D.C.
2020 – Teeny Tiny Trifecta, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2020 – Riverfront, Kristen Hileman, Curator, Delaware Contemporary Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2020 – By the People, Monochrome Collective, Washington, D.C.
2020 – The Human Condition, The Atheneum, Alexandria, VA
2019 – Petite December, The Art League, Alexandria, VA
2019 – ‘Board’ Out Of Our Minds, The Atheneum, Alexandria, VA
2019 – Artist’s Choice, Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2019 – Teeny Tiny Trifecta, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2019 – Habitat, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2019 – Art on the Vine, The Art League, Alexandria, VA
2018 – Too Much of Too Much, Laura Roulet, Curator, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2018 – Faculty Exhibition, The Art League, Alexandria, VA
2017 – Summerford Legacy Exhibition, American University’s Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
2017 – Alchemical Vessels Exhibition, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2017 – Strictly Painting 11, Anne Reeve, Curator, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA

PRESS
2021 – In the Galleries, The Washington Post review of Not Strictly Painting by Mark Jenkins, McLean Project for the Arts
2019 – In the Galleries, The Washington Post review of Habitat, by Mark Jenkins, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2019 – In the Galleries, The Washington Post review of Intention/Invention, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2018 – Studio Visit, volume forty-one, The Open Studio Press, A Juried Selection of International Visual Artists,
Lisa Crossman, Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2018 – In the Galleries, The Washington Post review of Too Much of Too Much curated by Laura Roulet
2014 – In the Galleries, The Washington Post review of Influence and Inspiration, The Atheneum, Alexandria, VA
2012 – Fezana Journal Transformed by Art
2010 – SPAN Magazine, American Embassy in Delhi, Feature article, Celebrating Balance with Indian American Artist Delna Dastur, by Erica Lee Nelson
2010 – Time Out Delhi, Review, Fair and Square by Jane Mikkelson, Critic’s Choice – Delna Dastur at Gallery Art Motif, Delhi
2010– Parsiana, Art Amalgam

COLLECTIONS
State Bank of India, New York, NY
Hilton Hotel Worldwide Headquarters, VA    ·   Astra Zeneca, Wilmington, DE    ·   PRTM, Washington DC
Private collections in the United States, London, Hong Kong and India