Khatra

Khatra is a visual artist based in Baroda, India. Having formally studied design, Khatra’s practice strongly reflects upon the aesthetics of typography and graffiti applied abstractly in public and interior spaces. Blurring the boundary between urban art and design, the artist makes use of design principles to navigate colours, perspectives, mediums and textures. After completing the Space Studios Monsoon Residency in 2022, Khatra has concentrated on exploring digital errors and the form of a glitch through industrial materials such as reflective radium tapes, spray paints, paste-ups and stencils. Often rendering images digitally and realizing them in hardware, the process is meticulously executed to retain three-dimensionalities over uniform planes. 

Khatra received a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Faculty of Fine Art at M.S.U. in 2016. He has since painted several murals in Chennai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and other cities with the St+art India Foundation. He was also part of the Pepper House Graffiti Residency at Kochi Biennale held in 2018.