From a forthcoming series - Dream Lover (2025)

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

From the series Fields Aflutter (2023)

These photographs centre Punjab’s famed agrarian landscape within the contemporary matrix of identity, migration, hope, and despair

Flights
(digital video still) from the series Fields Aflutter (2023)


In this video, kites collected from various parts of Punjab swim and flutter in the sky

From the series Barricade (2020) for Pandemic Objects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

From the series Barricade (2020) for Pandemic Objects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London


From the series Barricade (2020) for Pandemic Objects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London


Ikko Fark
(2018)

Made in collaboration with Furrukh Khan, this video installation
in wheat fields in Indian Punjab transmits real-time panoramic views of wheat fields located in Pakistani Punjab

                   
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Shashank Peshawaria is a visual artist from Punjab, India, whose work spans photography and film.


Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
MA Contemporary Art Practice (Moving Image), 2017


Shows

Fields Aflutter (solo)
Blueprint12

New Delhi, India, 2023

Delhi Contemporary Art Week
Bikaner House
New Delhi, India, 2023

Dūje Pāse Toñ
The Reach
Abbotsford, Canada, 2021

Cartographic Anxieties
Conflictorium
Ahmedabad, India, 2020

Beyond Borders
British Film Institute
London, United Kingdom, 2019


Publications

ASAP Art
SAY Magazine
V&A Blog
V&A and AA Publications
The Guardian
BBC News

Residencies

Chandraangan
Udaipur, India, 2025

Spacehouse Himalayas
Uttarakhand, India, 2024


Creative Interruptions (AHRC)
Punjab, India, 2018


Talks

Landscape and Meaning
IIT Guwahati
Assam, India, 2024


Cross-Border Queers
Bishopsgate Institute
London, United Kingdom, 2022


Colonialisms, Partition & Memory
British Film Institute
London, United Kingdom, 2019


Cinema

Camera Threat
Dir. Bernd Lützeler, 2017