Abhishek Tuiwala is a conceptual artist working across sculpture, installation, and drawing. Using metal, marble, wood, elastic, soap, and graphite, he transforms familiar materials and everyday objects into systems that investigate labor, migration, identity, adaptation, and the structures that shape human behavior. At the center of his practice is a recurring tension between support and constraint: the point at which something designed to provide stability, protection, or flexibility begins to restrict movement. Drawing from industrial processes, mechanical systems, humor, and ordinary life, Tuiwala shifts the scale, material, and function of recognizable objects to expose contradictions embedded within social, cultural, and economic structures. Raised in Surat, India, within a family involved in elastic manufacturing, Tuiwala developed an early relationship to production, repetition, labor, tension, and flexibility. Elastic has since become both a material and a conceptual framework in his practice, allowing him to examine how bodies, identities, and social systems stretch, adapt, and respond to pressure.

His public sculpture The Boundaries was selected for a two-year presentation at the Culture Lab LIC Sculpture Garden in Queens, New York. His work has been exhibited internationally through India Art Fair, Mana Contemporary, International Sculpture Center, Gallery LVS, the Raza Foundation, Aicon Gallery, Swivel Gallery, Dinner Gallery, and L’Space Gallery. Tuiwala is a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant, with additional recognition from the Stutzman Foundation, Bombay Art Society, Hyderabad Art Society, and Abir India. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute and maintains his studio at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.

SOLO EXHIBITION:

2022

The Uncomfortable Comfort, Chashama, New York City, New York

ART FAIR PRESENTATIONS:

2026

Weight of Appearances, Solo Presentation Curated by Gallery Violet Theory Art Company & Invisible

Punch, Hamptons Art Fair, Southhampton, New York

2025

Abir India, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India

2023

Little Sculpture Show, 14C Art Fair, Curated by International Sculpture Center, New Jersey

2022

Showcase, 14C Art Fair, The Armory, New Jersey

SELECTED GROUP EXIBITIONS:

2026

In the Wind, Curated by Tina Maneca, Lincoln Park, New Jersey

Unwelt, Curated by Nikolina Kovalenko, Gallery Mskowski, New York

2025

Triple Warmer, Curated by Violet Handforth, Shoot The Lobster, New York City, New York

The Gesture of a Story, Curated by Lidia Costa, Cranford Campus gallery, UCNJ, New Jersey

Mana Highlights, Mana Contemporary, Curated by Kele McComsey, Jersey City, New Jersey

City Gazes, Asian Art Contemporary, A Space Gallery, Curated by Webson Ji, Ju Hyun Kim, Brooklyn, New York

Collective Markes and Strokes of Imagination, Li Tang Community, The Blank Gallery, Curated by Wesson Ji, New York City, New York

Contains, Cuddles, Exalts or Stimulates, Aicon Gallery, New York City, New York

I belong (t)here, Seven House Gallery, Curated by Eyes On Art, Brooklyn, New York

Beyond The Mirror, L’Space Gallery, Curated by Lili Almog, New York City, New York

Yuva Sambhava, Raza Foundation, Shridharani Gallery, Curated by Robin David, New Delhi, India

2023

Botany of Desire, Swivel Gallery, Curated by Sadaf Padder, New York

I would Prefer Not To...., Art150 gallery, Curated by Kele Mccomsey, New Jersey

Don’t Put Me In The Box, Firmament Gallery, Curated by International Sculpture Center, New Jersey

Picture this How I View Myself In Today’s Society, Drawing Rooms, New Jersey

Chaos & Clarity, Light & Shadow, Art150 gallery, Curated by Kristine Go, New Jersey

2022

Rekindled Spirit, Bikaner House, Curated by Ruby Jagrut, New Delhi

Collaborative Concepts, Tilly Foster Farm, Curated by Joann Brody, New York

This is not Surrealism, Dinner Gallery, Curated by RegularNormal, New York

Insta Select V2, Mark Borghi Gallery, New York

Immersive Revelations, Artemiro Gallery, Miami

2021

Homegrown, Chashama, Curated by Jasper Johns, New York

Synergy, ArtHood56, Curated by Artem Mirolevich & Gene Davidov, Miami

Labor of Love II, Mint Gallery, Curated by Sharica Brooks, Atlanta

Mirror in Dark, Visionary Art Collective, Curated by Juana Williams

A World Away, A Thought Apart, Gallery Petite, Curated by Tyrome Trimpoli, New York

Asian Student and Young Art Festival, Hongik University Museum of Art, Curated by Tk Sun, Seoul,

South Korea

2020

Without Borders, World University of Design, Haryana, India

128th Annual Art Exhibition, Jahangir Art Gallery, Bombay art Society, Mumbai, India

2019

First Take 2019, Leila & Purushottam Hutheesing Visual Art Centre, by Abir Art Foundation, Ahemdabad, India

78th All India Art Exhibition, Nampally Ground, Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad, India

All India art exhibition 2nd edition, State Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India

RESIDENCY:

2026

Space Studio, Baroda, India

GRANTS & AWARDS:

2026

Individual Artist Fellowship by The New Jersey State Council on the Art

2023

Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant

2021

Pratt Institute, MFA Stutzman Foundation Award for Sculpture

Commencement Speaker for Graduation Ceremony, 2021 (Exemplary Student Award)

2020

Pratt Institute, MFA Stutzman Foundation Award for Sculpture

Bronze Award in Without Borders, by The school of Visual Arts

2019

Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, Sculpture Grant

Abir Art Foundation, Ahmedabad, Sculpture Grant

Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad, Sculpture Grant