Ashwini Bhat, an artist based in Petaluma, California, holds an M.A degree in literature and an
earlier career in classical Indian dance. She studied ceramics with American expatriate Ray Meeker in
Pondicherry, India.
Bhat’s work explores the deep relationship between the human and non-human, between the
constructed and the inherent. She often introduces radical but somehow familiar forms to suggest
the complex connection between the sculptural and the human body.
Her work has been exhibited nationally & internationally in, among others, The Lacoste/Keane
Gallery, Cavin-Morris Gallery, Cohen Gallery/Brown University, the American Jazz Museum, the
Newport Art Museum; Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan) India Art Fair (India), FuLe
International Ceramic Art Museum (China); Woodfire Tasmania (Australia). Her sculpture also has
been widely reviewed and featured in Brooklyn Rail (USA), Lana Turner: a Journal of Poetry and Opinion
(USA), Riot Material (USA), Ceramic Art and Perception (USA/Australia),, Ceramics Ireland (Ireland), New
Ceramics (Germany), Caliban (USA), Crafts Arts International (Australia), The Studio Potter (USA),
Logbook (Ireland), and Ceramics Monthly (USA).