RIDDHI PATEL
riddhi.0130@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
2023: Master of Fine-arts (MFA - Painting), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2020: Bachelor in visual Arts (BVA), The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India
2014: Diploma in Kathak (Performing arts), Akhil Bhartiya Sangh, Pune, India
SOLO and GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025: The SAAG Auction 2025, Southern Art Gallery of Alberta, Lethbridge
2025: Time and Memory, Arts to Hearts Project, Virtual Exhibit
2025: Deep Freeze, Nina Haggerty Stollery Gallery, Edmonton
2024: The woven path, Space 118, India
2024: On Paper, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Ontario
2024: Catch of the Day, FAB Gallery, Edmonton
2023: Silent and Present, Bleeding Heart Art Space, Edmonton
2023: Implicit Grid, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta (solo)
2023: The Beginning or Cause of Something, Co*lab Gallery, Edmonton
2022: Emerging Artists Unleashed: 2022, Alberta Society of the Arts, Canada
2021: 2021 Summer residency, Space Studio Residency, Gujarat, India
2021: All that is life, Space 118, Mumbai, India
2021: Default, Round Lemon, UK (Online)
2021: Kochi Muziris Student’s Biennale, Kochi, India (Online)
2020: Surface: The Online Edit by Artbuzz Studios, New Delhi, India (Online)
2020: “MUSE” by Toula Gallery, USA (Online)
2020: Graduate degree show, Maharaja Sayajirao University (Online)
2019: Handmade paper possibilities display, Mural Dept.,Maharaja Sayajirao University of baroda
2018-19: Nasreen Mohammedi scholarship award display, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
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TEACHING
2025: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
- Art 340: Drawing II – Winter 2025
2024: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
- Art 340: Drawing II – Winter 2024
- Art 240: Drawing I – Spring 2024
- Art 240: Drawing II – Fall 2024
2023: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
- Art 240: Drawing I – Spring 2023
- Art 240: Drawing I – Fall 2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Fine Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
- Art 340: Drawing II – Winter 2023
2022: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Fine Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
- Art 240 A1: Drawing I – Fall 2022
- Art 137 B1: Art Fundamentals II – Winter 2022
- Art 311 B2: Painting Intro Studies B2 – Winter 2022
2021: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Fine Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
- Art 134 A1: Art Fundamentals – Fall 2021
- Art 410 A1: Intermediate Painting I – Fall 2021
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AWARDS AND GRANTS:
2024: Equity and access in the arts - Individual stream, Edmonton Arts Council
2022: Melba Sadler Graduate Scholarship in Art and Design, University of Alberta
2022: Alberta Foundation of the Arts graduate scholarship in Art and Design, University of Alberta​
PUBLICATIONS:
Charuka Arora. "Riddhi Patel", Time and Memory, 148-148, April 2025
Gvozdeva, Anna, ”Riddhi Patel.” Visual Art Journal, issue 16, 74–75, January 2025.
The woven path, exhibition catalogue, Sharan Apparao and Saloni Doshi, Space 118, 2024
Patel, Riddhi. Implicit Grid - Master’s thesis, University of Alberta, 2023.
Bortscher, Mikayla. ”Exhibit Review: Implicit Grid at Fab Gallery.” The Gateway, 2023.
Patel, Riddhi. ”Wang Gai’s Pursuit of Ink.” University of Alberta Museums. February 2023.
All That Is Life, exhibition catalogue, Saloni Doshi, Space 118, 2021
Cloherty, Sophie. ”Riddhi Patel/ India/ Vadodara.” In St. Petersburg Art Residency, 82. Russia: St. Petersburg, 2020.
Patel, Riddhi. ”The Sea of Warp and Weft.” St Petersburg Virtual Art Residency, essay, 2020.
Patel, Riddhi. ”The Bird and The Sea.” Sabad: A Forum for Larger Connectivities of Fine Arts, 13. Vadodara: M.S University of Baroda, 2020.
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RESIDENCIES, PUBLIC TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
2023: The beginning or cause of something, Artist talk, Co*Lab, Edmonton
2021: Space Studio Residency, Vadodara, India
2018: Lalit Kala Artist Residency, Gujarat, India.
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COLLECTIONS:
Space 118 Collection
University of Alberta - Political Science Department
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