Varsha Nair

Varsha Nair (born 1957) is a Ugandan Indian painter. Her work explores the concepts of displacement, home and belonging. Nair lives in Vadodara, India.

Biography Nair was born in Kampala, Uganda. She was trained in Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and moved to Bangkok in 1995 after relocating from India to England and back.

She is one of the co-founders of Womanifesto, a feminist art collective and biennial program that was active in Thailand between 1997 and 2008, creating an international artist-led exchange platform in the country.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous art institutions, including Tate Modern (London), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), Art in General (New York), Sarajevo Centre of Contemporary Art (Sarajevo), Experimenta Media Arts (Melbourne), LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, Devi Art Foundation (New Delhi), and The Guild Art Gallery (Mumbai).

Her work, Undercurrent Yangon from 2014, was performed at the People's Park in Yangon, Myanmar.