Pankaj Vishwakarma is a Vadodara-based artist whose practice emerges from a life shaped by migration, labour, and industrial landscapes. Trained in Painting and Printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda, where he received a Gold Medal in Printmaking, his work is grounded in lived experiences of growing up within a migrant working-class community.

Moving between rural Azamgarh and the industrial town of Ankaleshwar, Vishwakarma’s works reflect on questions of belonging, displacement, and the politics embedded in everyday material life. He works with industrial and utilitarian materials such as enamel and wall paints, cardboard, aluminium, foil, lights, and packaging, materials drawn directly from sites of labour and circulation. While his works often take the form of paintings, prints, and installations, they quietly unsettle the disciplinary boundaries and value systems that define art as an elite object.

Rather than illustrating social realities, Vishwakarma embeds politics within the very processes and materials of making. His practice privileges material presence and physicality, allowing ordinary surfaces to carry histories of movement, work, and negotiation. Through this approach, his work proposes art as a site where lived experience, material culture, and ideology intersect, without spectacle, but with insistence.