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ARTIST STATEMENT 

“I live in a very charged part of the world – tactile, auditory and energetic moments firing sensations at all times. I chose not to consciously absorb them all. That said, things click and stay inside me, perhaps in hidden spaces of my mind.”

 

My work reflects these daily pockets of experience and memory, allowing for sensations and manifestations to authentically emerge. These reminiscences are malleable, versatile, powerful and, ultimately, greater than the source: myself. 

 

What I make is ever-changing and evolves with no material manipulation, no alteration of the materials’ desired outcome. My art is meant to be a safe space where bravery is rewarded. When there is resistance from the work, or the work feels resistance from me, I use my practice to create strength, where discomfort is held as lightly as ease. These feelings pass through a journey – free, gentle, perfect in its imperfection – where nothing, absolutely nothing, is wrong. 

 

In rhythm with colors, undulation and movement across the canvas – being the canvas, the experience of the work asks less of ourselves. If the good is good, and the process has worked, I and all of us are transformed.

 

My home and culture – both individual and collective – allow for a process, lexicon and community, where my work can be viewed as precious and also sparks global conversations, experiences and deep connections. No matter the direction, we must always look inward first.

BIO

Born in Mumbai, Oona D’mello’s long-term engagement with art has taken on a multitude of expressions through her work in painting, design, décor and social impact via art. She is the owner of Turqoise Creative & the Founder & Director of Art for Self- Reliance Foundation. 

 

Oona formalised her education in art with a Fine Arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, specialising in painting. Oona made Chicago her home for nearly a decade, taking on roles such as the Art and Gallery Director at The Chicago Mosaic School, in conjunction with events at the Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics. 

 

Oona has presented her experiments with textiles and painting at an exhibition in Venice, Italy. She simultaneously had a number of solo and group shows in Chicago and Ohio, as well as in China and India. She went on to exhibit her textile-based paintings in Singapore with her show 'Feeling Resistance, Memory & Practice' in September 2019, Method Art Gallery in 2020 and 2 shows with Priyasri Art Gallery in 2023 and 2024. 

 

Oona is the co-founder of Est. Form, a creative collective, launched in December 2019 and went on to have 2 shows in Mumbai in 2019 and 2020 at The Stands and G5A Foundation respectively. 

 

Oona is the CEO and Co-founder of MySustainOnline, a micro-learning platform, based in experience and scientific research, that seeks to facilitate a better world through affordable and virtual sustainability learning for businesses and students. In her career as a change agent and a visual artist who leverages creative expression and appreciative language being the key facets in service of self and others. Her passion to create is a path for her own self-discovery, expression and a carefully curated avenue that promotes that ‘art can heal’, firsthand.

 

Oona founded Art for Self-Reliance at 18 years of age; working with girls and women rescued from trafficking in India, and is a Beta Gamma Sigma member; a society for business

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She now works in between Priceton in USA & Mumbai & Goa in India. 

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SHOWS & EXHIBTIONS 

  • Group Show, Just Another Playground, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 

  • Exhibit, Savio Jon, Goa,

  • Dual Show, On & Off the Wall, Method Gallery, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, India 

  • Dual Show, Est. Form, Edition II : Movement, G5A Gallery,  Mumbai, India 

  • Dual Show, Est. Form, Edition I : Art X Fashion, Mumbai, India 

  • Solo Show, Feeling Resistance, Memory & Practice, Shouten X Culturement, Singapore 

  • Group Show, Self Scapes, OpenWall Gallery, 47th Alderman Office,Chicago, IL

  • Solo Show, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL.

  • Group Show, Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics, Chicago IL,

  • Group Show, Un-Broken, Uncommon Ground, Chicago, IL

  • Group Show, Kala Art Gallery, Cleveland OH 

  • Group Show, Works on Paper, National Juried Competition 2015 .Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts & Sciences

  • Dual Collaborative Show, Permenance| Ephemerality, Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics, Chicago IL 

  • Group Show, Why Self-Adventures of Social Identities, Palazzo Ca' Zanardi,Venice, Italy

  • Group Show, India Arts Festival, Mumbai India

  • Ink from Abroad- Group Show, Zhu Jizhan Museum of Art, Shanghai, China

  • Group Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL

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