Bhavna Mehta
[Image description: An Asian American woman with shoulder-length black hair and glasses is dressed in a black and white checked shirt and blue jeans. She sits in a manual wheelchair in front of a closed door.] Photo: Aditi Mehta.
Bhavna Mehta works with paper – cutting and embroidering it to tell stories that combine figurative imagery with botanical motifs, text, and shadows. Using paper as skin and thread to connect and mend, using cutting and sewing to talk about exposing and hiding, she makes work about relating and remembering. Mehta has exhibited widely in San Diego and Southern California. She is the recipient of the Artists In Communities grant from the California Arts Council (2017, 2019) in partnership with Art Produce and the Creative Catalyst grant from The San Diego Foundation (2015) with the Oceanside Museum of Art. She has won multiple awards in juried shows and she was one of the San Diego Art Prize emerging artist winners. She collaborates with artists making public art, using paper as a design medium.
Mehta was a participant in the 2021 HereIn Writers Workshop.
Read her writing and about her work on HereIn: