Devika’s artistic and curatorial practice shifts across different mediums, threading elements of collage, painting, and printmaking with photography, assemblage and installation. Exploring art as a restorative, meditative medium and outlet, she expresses collective themes of invisibility, illness, memory and impermanence within personal and shared human experience.

Devika is an Inlaks Fine Art Awardee 2020, awarded by the Inlaks Shivdasani foundation and a Prince Clause Fund Seed Award Recipient 2021. She curated Bodies at Sea, an archival exhibition with Studio Slip at The National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. She is a presently working on an arts research project as part of the IFA Arts Research grant (2021-2022) funded by India Foundation for the Arts.

Devika has exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore (2018) and in group shows at India Art Fair (2020), Delhi Contemporary Art Week (2021) with Blueprint 12 Gallery, Bikaner house with Anant Art Gallery (2021), Pushing Print (2020) with Indian Printmaker House, The Bandli Project (2019) at The Consulate of France Bangalore, among others. 

Devika presented her exhibition “Essentially Normal Studies” around invisible illnesses, as a keynote speaker at MYOPAIN 2018 and In 2020 as an interdisciplinary guest lecture at Ashoka University. Devika has also written pieces around art, disability and accessibility for Marg (2021), Art India (2021), and Skin Stories, published by Point of View (2018).

Parallel to her practice, Devika runs Hanno Terrace studio, a collective open studio founded to facilitate art as a therapeutic medium of release and outlet for children and adults from diverse backgrounds. Extending themes explored within her individual practice, she develops these into an accessible and inclusive language through dialogic art group workshops and personalised exercises conducted at the studio.

Devika studied Anthropology, Art History and Visual Arts in Sarah Lawrence College, New York, and graduated with a Commendation in Contemporary Art Practice from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design.