Tapan Moharana

As a multidisciplinary artist I engage in questions of land, displacement, and the politics of ecology. Trained in sculpture making, the work draws deeply from local and indigenous visual traditions, particularly shadow puppetry forms such as Ravana Chhaya. Working with light, shadow, and handcrafted structures, I bring together inherited techniques and experimental processes shaped through collaboration and shared making. Across installations and visual works, my practice reflects on memory, movement, and the shifting relationship between land, tradition, and contemporary life. 

I have exhibited widely in India and internationally, including a solo exhibition “The Cube in Perth” and am a recipient of the Inlaks Fine Art Award.