Dway Lunkad (b. 2000, Delhi) is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in the relationships between the built environment, its past and future, as it relates to ours as those that live within it. With a specific eye on material historicity and critiquing cultural norms of chronocentrism, he explores narratives of urban/natural, monumental/individual, past/future, iterative/unchanging and the boundaries that lie between all. Exhibiting through sculpture, films, writings, drawings, creative direction, design , performance, and site-specific installation to create experiences that reflect the needs and wants of the narrative.

He uses medium and meaning to communicate emotions of grief, loss, curiosity, belief, and their routes to empathy. His work finds grounding in research methods drawing from material knowledge, craftsmanship, linguistics, architecture, the archeological, and patterns of being while weaving narratives that connect the contemporary to the historical.

He holds a dual BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design from the departments of Sculpture and Film, animation, and video (FAV).

Based out of New York | New Delhi