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 is currently pursuing a PhD in Texts and Technology, specializing in Digital Media, at the University of Central Florida. 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 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 accessibility and highlighting emerging artistic voices. She also served as the Arts and Culture Commissioner for Hamtramck, Michigan.

Jetshri’s work has been exhibited at institutions including the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Kresge Arts Foundation, and David Klein Gallery in Michigan, as well as internationally through Dubai’s Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award, where she was recognized as a top-ten artist in 2011. She received the prestigious Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship in 2015, recognizing outstanding graduating MFA students across the United States.

Website: www.jetshri.com