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Clay is where I bury my secrets.


As a transcontinental transplant with roots in India, Ireland, Mexico, and New York City, my work challenges the arbitrary borders—cultural, political, and ecological—that attempt to define us. A life of code-switching and cultural paradoxes has made sociopolitical labels feel limiting to me, so I use sculpture to test the permeable edges of identity and borders. Clay—ancient, fluid and capable of holding multitudes—offers me infinite possibilities to reject the imposed boundaries of human systems.  

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Peloloca is a multidisciplinary artist based in NYC. After a two-decade career spanning independent film, interdisciplinary design & new media, they recently established a ceramic studio practice. The CV below outlines their experience relevant to this transition.


Select Shows 2025In the Belly of The Whale
Group show, Whale Building Collective, NYC

2024One Day This Will Be Then
Group show, Beverly's, NYC

Hind’s House Bushwick
Group show, Hind’s Hall Collective, NYC 

Hind’s House Columbia
Group show, Hind’s Hall Collective, NYC

Form of Light
Group show, Keepsake Gallery, NYC

Fallow Frames Biennial
Public Art Festival, NYC 

Residencies2025 Watershed Ceramics, Artist Resident, Maine

2023ATEA, Artist Resident, Mexico City

2019 Casa Lu, Artist Resident, Mexico City

2014
New Inc, New Museum, Resident Fellow,  NYC 
Awards / Press2025 Angus Graham Memorial Award, Watershed Ceramics

2024 Hyperallergic, Exhibition Looks Back at Columbia’s Encampments
The Art Newspaper, Exhibition at Columbia Univ. seeks to bring attention to Gaza
Bushwick Daily, Among the Artists In Ridgewood
Artist Talks2022NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Guest Lecture, NYC

2019School of Visual Arts, Guest Lecture, NYC

2014U.N General Assembly, Keynote, UNIS conference, NYC
Wharton School, UPenn, Artist Talk, PA 

2012Harvard University, Artist Talk, MA
Body & Soul festival, Artist Talk, Ireland
EducationMFA Design & Technology, Parsons School of Design, NYC
BFA Fine Art, Stella Maris College, Chennai, India







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