Namita Paul is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the intersections of memory,
architecture, and ritual. Through her practice, she examines how physical spaces hold
grief, how absence becomes presence, and how the remnants of the past inform acts of
rebuilding. Her work navigates the delicate thresholds between loss and renewal,
structure and erosion, tradition and transformation.
Drawing from the theater of tradition—the rituals, gestures, objects, and inherited
practices that mark beginnings and endings—Namita constructs visual and conceptual
spaces where grief becomes both prayer and performance. Her work is an excavation, a
preservation, and a reconfiguration, offering new ways of holding memory within form.
Namita has exhibited widely, with notable presentations at The Cantor Arts Center,
Stanford, CA; the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose; and has an upcoming
exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, in October 2025. A 2023 Lucas Artist Fellow
at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, she continues to explore how space, material, and
movement serve as vessels for remembrance and hope.
She holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Arts and an MA in Cultural Studies from the
University of Washington, Seattle, and an MFA in Fine Arts from California College of the
Arts.