IMAGINE (Sneha Shrestha)

IMAGINE (a.k.a. Sneha Shrestha) is a Nepali artist who incorporates her native language and meshes the aesthetics of Sanskrit scriptures with graffiti influences. Her meditative works have been shown in several exhibitions, and she has been commissioned to paint public walls around the world from Kathmandu to Boston.

Sneha’s painting Home416 was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, making it the first artwork by a contempo- rary Nepali artist to ever be acquired in the museum’s history. Her new work is a 20-foot sculpture commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum that is traveling to the Rubin Museum in NewYork, where it’ll be on view until October 2024. Sneha recently had her major solo show Sneha Shrestha: Ritual and Devotion at the Cantor Art Gallery. She was recognized by WBUR-FM as one of the twenty-five millennial artists of color impacting Boston and was recognized as Outstanding Artist of the Year by the Center for Arts at the Armory in Somerville, Massachusetts. Shrestha’s work is held in the private collections of Facebook, Google, and Fidelity Investments.

Sneha established the Children’s Art Museum of Nepal in 2014 to provide a creative space where children can develop twenty-first-century skills through project-based art experiences.

Sneha received her MA from Harvard University. Besides creating larger-than-life murals and paintings, Sneha passionately supports Asian art by working as the arts program manager at the South Asia Institute at Harvard.