Jetshri Bhadviya

Jetshri Bhadviya is a curator, educator, designer, and new media artist whose work explores the relationship between the human body, space, and its emotional, cultural, and metaphysical dimensions through video, sound, performance, and photography. Her creative practice investigates surreal and unstructured bodily states, often examining how bodies are perceived and contextualized within physical environments.

She holds an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Studio Arts from the American University in Dubai. Since 2015, she has taught as an adjunct at the College for Creative Studies and Oakland University in Michigan.

As a Curatorial Assistant at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Jetshri supported exhibitions exploring themes of identity, migration, environment, and representation, with a strong emphasis on inclusion and highlighting underrepresented artistic voices. She also served as the Arts and Culture Commissioner for Hamtramck, Michigan.

Jetshri’s exhibitions have been featured at institutions including the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Kresge Arts Foundation, and David Klein Gallery in Michigan, as well as internationally at Dubai’s Sheikha Manal Young Artist Foundation, where she was recognized as a top-ten artist in 2011. She received the prestigious Toby Dewan Lewis Fellowship Award in 2015, honoring outstanding MFA graduates across the United States.

Website: https://www.jetshri.com/

**Credit to Photographer Jeff Cancelosi for the portrait.