Minal is a multidisciplinary artist from Colombo, Sri Lanka whose work explores gender, identity, justice, and decoloniality through the lens of her own lived experience. Raised in a family of journalists during Sri Lanka’s 30-year civil war, her practice is shaped by questions of memory, resilience, and representation. She has shown work in collective exhibitions such as Colomboscope (2016) and the Human Rights Day Exhibition (2016), and has presented solo shows including Sensuous at the Lionel Wendt Gallery (2019), Post-Colonial Identities in The Hague as an Artist Safe Haven resident (2023), and Strong Head, Strong Heart, Strong Emotions at the Barefoot Gallery (2024). As a Fearless Collective ambassador, she has co-created murals with underrepresented women, including young Dalit communities in India, women in Colombo’s ‘Slave Island’ facing displacement, and female journalists in Sri Lanka.

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In 2024, Minal received the NUFFIC scholarship for Cultural Heritage and completed an MA in Applied Museum and Heritage Studies, where she focused on decolonial archival methods. After her studies, she founded Memory.Circles, a digital counter-archive built collaboratively through workshops that teach participants archival skills. She now returns to her artistic practice with renewed clarity and is developing a new body of work shaped by these expanded methodologies and perspectives.