Vikasini Sripathi
Vikasini Sripathi is a 23-year-old self-taught artist from Hyderabad, India working primarily with acrylic on canvas. Her practice explores psychological intensity through dark, confrontational imagery that examines loneliness, internal pressure, and silent endurance. Rather than creating work for consumption, she approaches painting as a private process of emotional translation transforming internal experiences into physical form.
Her pieces are often raw, structured, and deliberate, reflecting a personality that values introspection over spectacle. Though she rarely exhibits, her work resonates with viewers who recognise fragments of their own unspoken struggles within it. Supported by close friends and family, Vikasini continues to build a body of work that is unapologetically personal and emotionally uncompromising.
Wired
Acrylic on Canvas, 2026.
60 × 50 cm
$220
Hustle Culture
Acrylic on Canvas, 2025.
60 × 50 cm
$330
Wired and Hustle Culture resist comfort and easy categorisation. In Wired, a screaming figure is pierced by barbed wire forced through burnt holes in the canvas, making the surface itself wounded. In Hustle Culture, nails driven into a woman’s skull symbolise pressure and overextension, while her act of wiping away blood reflects endurance without glorifying the pain.
Both works disrupt expectation by exposing psychological strain that is often hidden behind composure. They are not made to satisfy an audience, but to materialise internal tension. Any resonance they create comes from shared recognition, not intention.