Arieno Kera
Statement
Arieno Kera (b. 1999, Kohima, Nagaland, India) is a contemporary Indian artist from the Naga indigenous community, currently based in Nagaland. She is interested in process-based art practice and engages with painting, drawing, installation, and video as an archive of local tradition and cultural memory. Exploring a material-based practice, she engages critically with tools of representation derived from various traditional elements from her own indigenous background from Nagaland and interprets them into contemporary idioms of image making, conversing with the practice of drawing as an interface of representation, process, and mark making. She translates personal experience into a performative signifier of memory and transformation.
She holds a BFA in Painting from the Amity School of Fine Arts, Noida (2018–2022), and an MFA in Painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan (2022–2024). Her work has been presented in group exhibitions, including the India Art Fair Young Collectors’ Programme (New Delhi, 2025), Vida Heydari Contemporary (Pune, 2025–26), 1ShantiRoad Studio Gallery (Bengaluru, 2025), Somaiya Vidyavihar University (Mumbai, 2025), Hidden Artist Initiative, MSU Baroda (2024), AMI Arts Festival (Kolkata, 2023), and the Hornbill Festival (Kohima, 2022).
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