Minal is a multidisciplinary artist from the island of Lanka. She is a part time mural maker, lover, friend, multi-tasker and full-time over thinker and melo dramateur. You will often find her obsessing over issues related to decoloniality, gender and human rights. She was raised by a family of journalists during Sri Lanka’s civil war — therefore her practice is shaped by questions of memory, resilience, and representation and how to move through life with a permanent migraine. Minal thinks this sort of posturing on the internet is systematic of the ego-centred world she has become allergic to. But if she must...

 

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’/ Kompannavidiya 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 in Amsterdam, 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.