Jhani Randhawa

Jhani Randhawa is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose work is interested in transnational feminisms, comparative masculinities, grief practices, and formations of friendship across species, oceans, and consciousness. Jhani’s debut collection Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022) won the 2023 California Book Award for Poetry, and they are a contributing editor of Beautiful Zameen: Jagdeep Raina in the Green Revolution Archive (PS Guelph, 2026), a reflection on the global impacts of agricultural technology experiments and diasporic artists’ responses to them. Jhani’s hybrid work is included in the anthology A Mouth Holds Many Things (de-Canon/Fonograf Editions, 2024).

Jhani’s performance, video art, and dramaturgy have been presented in venues such as UnionDocs, the Helen Kanitkar Anthropology Library, CICA Museum, Thymele Arts, Couerage Ensemble, Heimbold Visual Arts Center, and the Woolen Mill Gallery. Jhani was a 2022 finalist for a PEN Emerging Writers Fellowship and a 2023 finalist for UNESCO’s Youth Research grant. Their research has received recognition from Montalvo Arts, the Richard Bonney Literary Fund, the Laura Bassi Foundation, Writers House Pittsburgh, Millay Arts, and the Wormfarm Institute. They were awarded their M.A. with distinction as a reader in postcolonial studies from SOAS, University of London.