About
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” — John Lubbock
Urvi Khanna is a New Delhi–based artist and educator whose practice considers nature as a space of memory, reflection, and healing. Working across painting, photography, and interdisciplinary research, her work explores colour and perception as ways of holding and translating lived experience beyond structured ways of defining the world.
With over two decades of experience across art, design, photography, media, and education, her practice moves fluidly between disciplines—drawing from anthropology, visual culture, and ecological thought. Her current body of work focuses on colour as a site of expression and inquiry, translating observations from the natural world into layered visual compositions that resist fixed interpretation.
Alongside her studio practice, Urvi has had an extensive career in education. She has taught at institutions including the College of Art - Delhi, School of Planning and Architecture and Pearl Academy, where she led the Communication Design program, mentoring a large cohort of students and faculty. She was a founding faculty at Indian Institute of Art and Design (now UDIT). Her approach to teaching emphasizes critical thinking, cross-disciplinary exploration, and the development of individual visual language.
Before transitioning fully into art and academia, she co-founded and ran a multidisciplinary advertising agency and later led design and creative direction for an e-commerce startup, working across branding, UX/UI, and digital platforms. These experiences continue to inform her understanding of visual systems, communication, and audience engagement.
She is also the founder of Fabearth, an initiative that uses illustration and design to raise awareness about ecology, climate, and endangered species, extending her practice into a more public and participatory space.
Urvi’s work exists at the intersection of structure and intuition—where colour, form, and meaning are continuously negotiated. Her practice remains open-ended, evolving through ongoing experimentation, observation, and dialogue.
Email: urvikhanna@gmail.com