Namita Paul

Namita Paul, born in Jalandhar, India, and now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an interdisciplinary artist who constructs material “thresholds” that hold memory, rupture, and repair. Working with stitched canvas, cultural and ritual objects, glass, and accumulated fragments, she creates artworks that function as both architectural structures and bodily skins.

Her practice engages the emotional afterlives of space, where histories of home, displacement, and loss are embedded into form. Through processes of stitching, layering, and material accumulation, she constructs walls and surfaces that act as containers—holding traces of what has been broken, carried, and reconstituted. Rather than representing memory, Paul embeds it physically, allowing material to register time, impact, and transformation. Her work operates as both structures and witnesses, translating personal experience into shared spatial and emotional encounters.

Paul holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Washington, and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the ICA San José, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), and soon, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. She is a 2023 Lucas Artists Program Fellow.  

Programs:

• Thresholds of Memory (in conjunction with the 2026 Marcus Exhibition The Art and Architecture of Maybe) (2026)
• P L A C E: Reckonings by Asian American Artists (2024)