Seema Kohli is a distinguished contemporary Indian artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores femininity, memory, and mythology. Drawing on her lived experience as well as diverse spiritual traditions, she creates intricate visual worlds that weave together the past and the present, the personal and the cultural, the earthly and the divine. Her richly layered canvases incorporate motifs such as the Tree of Life and winged gandharvas alongside city skylines and stacks of books, as well as gold and silver leaf. Spanning more than four decades, her work encompasses original paintings, sculptures, installations, prints, performances, and poetry.

The Golden Womb, or Hiranyagarbha, is a central concept in art by Seema Kohli. In Vedic philosophy, it represents the source of all existence, a constant energy that originates everything in the universe. To Seema, the Golden Womb is a celebration of the cosmic feminine and its intimate connection to creation, destruction, and the cycle of rebirth. As the artist explains, “My art is a reclamation. I restore the wild, undomesticated energies—the feminine archetype—whose raw power has been softened or erased.”

Seema Kohli received a Philosophy degree with honors from Miranda House and a diploma in Applied Arts from South Delhi Polytechnic for Women. Her works are held in institutional collections worldwide, including the British Museum (London, UK); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (Delhi, India); National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru (India); Lalit Kala Akademi (India); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Washington, USA); Museum of Art & Photography, Bengaluru (India); Museum of Sacred Art (Belgium); Bihar Museum (Patna, India); the Rubin Museum (New York, USA); and the Phoenix Museum of Art (Arizona, USA), among others. She has exhibited in numerous international museums, including recent solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru in 2025; Partition Museum in 2025; Bihar Museum in 2024; and Museum of Sacred Art in 2019. She has also organized recent workshops for the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, and she has presented lectures at TEDx Chennai, Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Davis.

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Are the paintings framed?

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