Reshavan Naicker
Reshavan Naicker is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and creative facilitator whose work interrogates bureaucratic structures, historical erasure, and the politics of memory. Their medium-agnostic practice engages activations, installation, bookmaking, and photography, allowing ideas to dictate their final form. Rooted in research and process, their work examines the ways narratives are controlled, archived, and forgotten, engaging with contemporary African identities, anti-colonial historiographies, and the tensions between personal and institutional memory.

Through their exploration of bureaucratic mechanisms, Reshavan examines how systems of record-keeping and institutional authority shape collective understanding. Their work critiques the rigidity of official narratives while making space for fluid, fragmented, and often contradictory histories. By recontextualising archival materials and engaging with overlooked or excluded histories, they question who has the authority to document and preserve memory.

Reshavan’s practice also considers historical erasure as both a deliberate act and a structural consequence of power. Their practiec aims to serve as an intervention against erasure, acting as a method of reclaiming lost or suppressed narratives. By constructing alternative archives and deconstructing existing ones, their work challenges dominant historiographies and amplifies voices marginalised by colonial and institutional frameworks.

In addition to their studio practice, Reshavan is the Studio Manager and Artist Liaison at STILL Artist Residency, where they support Artists-In-Residence, facilitate creative exchange, and contribute to institutional development through event planning and management, and public programming. Their curatorial and administrative work aligns with their broader artistic interests in elevating African artists and artists from the Global South, advocating for more equitable narratives within contemporary art spaces.

They continue to develop projects that challenge dominant narratives, blending archival research, material exploration, and participatory engagement to reimagine how history is constructed and remembered.

Exhibitions

2022     Dovetail (Undergraduate Show) — Bennington College Usdan Gallery (Bennington, VT, USA)
               Progressions in Photography (Solo Exhibition) — W. Collective (Bennington, VT, USA)

2021      Cityscapes — Blank Wall Gallery (Athens, Greece)

2020     Bennington and Williams College Student Exhibition — Cynthia Reeves (North Adams, MA, USA)
Education

2018 - 2022    Bachelors of Arts in Visual Arts, Art History, and Museum Studies
                           Bennington College, Bennington, VT, USA


2016 - 2018    International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
                          United World College of Costa Rica

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