Pallavi Sharma

Pallavi Sharma is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and an independent curator. She has exhibited her works in many solo and group shows in national and international exhibitions since 2000. Her socially-engaged art practice addresses migration and the notions of memory, marginalization, patriarchy, and misogyny. Her practice and research interests’ concern Asian American women’s cultural production and activism.

She is founder and director of the nonprofit organization ‘Inner Eye Arts’ and served in AAWAA board from 2009- 2021. Pallavi has been part of the Art Advisory committee of the City of San Ramon for several terms and held leadership positions.

She received her BFA and MFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts Baroda, and Ph.D. in Art History from the National Museum Institute of History of Art, Museology, and Conservation, New Delhi, India. She presently teaches at California College of the Arts, San Francisco in critical Ethnic Studies program.