Aaniya Asrani

Aaniya Asrani (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist, graphic designer, and visual storyteller from Bangalore, India. She graduated from Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology with distinction in Visual Communication (2014) and Emily Carr University with a Master of Fine Arts degree (2019).

Currently, she is an uninvited visitor on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations - where she is nurturing a community engaged art practice. She is the Community Artist Lead at posAbilities and works alongside the InWithForward team to build bridges across lines of difference. She is also sessional faculty at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and conducts independent workshops in community spaces.

Her art practice spans a range of mediums, and investigates social, political, and cultural systems in order to critique and question existing injustices. The work she undertakes has the ultimate goal of facilitating empathy across diverse communities and systemic disparities to catalyse small actions of change.