Vibhuti Kakdiya (b. 2000) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice traverses painting, printmaking, and ceramics. Rooted in the textures of everyday surroundings yet unbound by realism, her works conjure hybrid forms that blur the distinctions between myth and sci-fi, tradition and modernity, presence and absence. Often devoid of anatomy or fixed identity, these figures occupy self-contained spaces, layered with cloth, paper, and acrylic pigment, where materiality enhances their ambiguity. Her early explorations drew from folk stories, which gradually expanded into an iconography of forms adorned with jewels, textiles, and futuristic elements. These figures resist conventional ideas of beauty, inviting viewers into imaginative terrains that ask us to reconsider aesthetics itself. By breaking down stereotypical aesthetics and experimenting across mediums, she constructs new languages of form and space.

Kakdiya earned her BVA from Surat School of Fine Arts (2021) and her MVA in Painting from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2024). In 2024, she undertook an international residency at Wangou Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue, Longquan, China, where her engagement with ceramics deepened the dimensionality of her practice. Her work continues to expand across mediums while remaining grounded in a pursuit of transformation, fluidity, and the boundless possibilities of form.