Deepikah RB

Deepikah RB is participating in a four-month residency in the summer/fall of 2025, responding to the exhibition Futures, featuring works by Rajni Perera, through the lens of her practice.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Deepikah RB is an award-winning Indian interdisciplinary artist practicing in T’karonto (Toronto), Canada. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from OCAD University (2024) and is pursuing a PhD in Environmental Studies at York University. Her practice interweaves nature, motherhood, and hope, prompting audiences to reconsider anthropocentric narratives amid ecological crises. Deepikah’s work highlights collaboration beyond humans, involving algae and bioplastics, focusing on nonhuman agency, regenerative processes, and multispecies kinship.

Her thesis exhibition, a place to fall apart (Ignite Gallery, 2024), imagined a speculative hybrid world where humans and non-humans coexist and co-create. This installation work won second prize in the visual arts category at the Scarborough Arts Annual Juried Show 2024. Deepikah has exhibited at Artist Project 2025 and Geary Art Crawl (2024) and represented Canada at Salon Acme during Art Week 2025 in CDMX, Mexico. Deepikah’s work appears in CBC Arts, Hyperallergic, and Stir World.