Maithili Bavkar (born 1993, Mumbai, India; lives in New Delhi, India) is an artist based in New Delhi. She was an artist-in-residence for Khoj Peers (2025) and a curatorial fellow for the Kochi-Muziris Students’ Biennale, Kerala, India (2022). Her practice engages text across various mediums like artist books, poetry, installation, photography, and video. Bavkar is particularly interested in the multiple lives of text as the written, printed, scribbled, spoken, coded, patented, repeated, or recycled word, and in how meaning shifts as it moves between forms. Recent exhibitions include Between Books, Düsseldorf (2025); Today is hard to remember, Khoj Studios, Delhi (2025); Into the Midst, by CAMP Studio (2024); Democracy—The Endangered Bird, Act I, Art Zita House, Sweden (2023), and collective group exhibitions by the Crown Letter Project at Institut français de Prague (2023); Institut français du Japon Kansai, Kyoto, Japan (2022); and Bienalsur, Argentina (2021).
